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Managing images with a private registry

Once you have created your own Docker registry, you can start to push your Docker images to it. By pushing your images to a self-hosted Docker registry, you are not only gaining security, you are also making the build and deployment of further images much faster. Pushing to a self-hosted registry is straightforward, and there is nothing to stop you from pushing an image to multiple registries; this can be useful if you maintain registries for certain environments.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need an Ubuntu 14.04 Docker host and a self-hosted Docker registry.

How to do it…

I have split this recipe into two sections, the first dealing with pushing images to your registry, and the second for how to ...