Registry Option: SUSE Portus

An Open Source alternative to Docker Trusted Registry is Portus from SUSE. This is a front end to a private Open Source registry that allows for fine grained control of registry access and content: it can manage users, teams, and namespaces (no, not the kernel ones). It can integrate with LDAP for authentication and offers an audit trail, and can be extended for security scanning.

Portus dashboard with activity log

To play with Portus, we need:

1. docker-compose.
2. a private registry
3. Portus

New Docker Engine in SLES 12 Containers Module

A couple of days ago, SUSE published a major update to the Docker engine. The Containers Module now offers version 17.04-CE of the engine (docker-17.04.0_ce-98.2.s390x.rpm).

An Overview on s390x Base Images

For s390x, quite a few options for base images are available on Docker Hub/Docker Store these days. They vary from enterprise environments over community distributions to minimal images. This post gives an overview on what is provided by various sources.