Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook

Creating private Docker repositories with Terraform

To host your Docker images, you need what's called a registry. This registry is either run by you or as a service. It stores your images for you and sometimes builds them too. The Docker Hub and Quay.io from CoreOS are the main Docker-managed registries you can subscribe to. Both are interesting in terms of features or pricing. However, an interesting alternative is AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR): pricing is different and fully integrated in the AWS ecosystem. Let's create countless repositories simply with Terraform!

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need the following:

• A working Terraform installation
• An AWS provider configured in Terraform (refer to the previous recipes) ...