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

Multi-Arch Registry and Images

It has been a while since multi-architecture support has been developed and brought upstream. Multi-architecture support allows to put several images behind a common identifier in a registry. With that, a consumer of the image won't have to think about pulling the right binary flavor of the image, it's done right automatically for him.

A couple of things play together for this magic: