We (mostly) push docker images (containing maven builds) with semantic version tags to our Azure Container Registry (ACR), e.g. my-cool-app:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT. As in the maven-world suggested, a SNAPSHOT is a work in progress built, which may or may not gets overwritten any time ...
I am thinking of a dedicated ACR, which is used for production environment only. This ACR shall contain only released images, meaning no SNAPSHOT shall be contained in the image tag. I couldn't find any useful information if there is some sort tag naming policy, basically denying any kind of deploys containing SNAPSHOT, besides locking the images. Is there no way to define such rules on the ACR, or do we have to check that "programmatically" within the build/release pipeline?
There is not any document with naming policy before pushing the images to container registry but for workaround you can use of Content trust in Azure Container Registry
Azure Container Registry implements Docker's content trust model,
enabling pushing and pulling of signed images. This article gets you
started enabling content trust in your container registries.
As an image publisher, content trust allows you to sign the images you push to your registry. Consumers of your images (people or systems pulling images from your registry) can configure their clients to pull only signed images. When an image consumer pulls a signed image, their Docker client verifies the integrity of the image. In this model, consumers are assured that the signed images in your registry were indeed published by you, and that they've not been modified since being published.
This Content Trust will help to deny to push the images in Container registery as they might be not signed images to use as on production environment or in Azure Contaier Registry
For more information how to assign AcrImageSigner Role in the Container Registry You can refer this Mircosoft Document
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I am using azure devops for CI/CD pipelines and one thing I couldn't find out, getting images from Azure container registry and run those images inside of my onpremise debian server. (I build and pushed the images to ACR already).
On release pipeline section:
I set Azure Container repository as source type and selected the latest artifact from there
then created a dev stage
Added a Command line tool to execute some scripts on server
-->This is the step where I lost<-- I need somehow to get these image from repository and fire compose up command in the server.
Extra info: you cannot use your docker-compose.yml(which mine is inside of the azure repo in same project) because you are using ACR as source type, not the build itself or source code.
*in my humble opinion this is a good case to enrich a content. Because there is lack of docs and videos on internet.
thanks,
When I navigate to https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/ my list appears to be empty (see the attached screenshot), even though I am successfully using a couple of Firebase Functions. Is the link broken? Am I missing permissions or something? Where are my images? Why can't I access them?
You can automatically build and push images to a private registry when you commit code to Cloud Source Repositories, GitHub, or Bitbucket. Easily set up CI/CD pipelines with integration to Cloud Build or deploy directly to Google Kubernetes Engine, App Engine, Cloud Functions, or Firebase.
Pushing an image for the first time to the registry in your project you need Storage Admin (roles/storage.admin) at the Google Cloud project level. But if you are
pushing an image to an existing registry in your project then you need Role: Storage Legacy Bucket Writer (roles/storage.objectAdmin) on the registry storage
bucket.
For more details pushing and pulling images.
Also please check managing images.
I currently have a Linux app service (Web app) running a docker container, the containers are pushed to the ACR on build, with tags currently being the commit hash (shortened to the first 6 characters).
Continuous deployment has not been setup currently for various reasons.
In the "Container settings" window of the portal I've noticed that a large number of tags are missing - preventing the selection of some the latest built images.
All of the tags are currently available in the registry, however it seems that only ~100 tags are available in the drop down of the portal - which are listed in a alpha-numeric sorted list.
The web app is running without issue, however the tags are missing which is making selecting and deploying the containers directly from the portal an issue.
It appears that the Azure function which is returning the list of tags is causing the issue, as mentioned above only returning a partial number of the actual available tags.
I have no experience with more than a hundred images stored in the ACR. But as far as I know, there no limitation about the tags of the ACR images. You can see the Image Limits here. Also the App Service Limits.
Can we use Azure Container registry as a general purpose artifactory repository like VSTS Package Manager or Artifactory? If so, what are the common gotchas/pitfalls of doing so? Why is it (not) advisable?
Azure Container Register is a managed Docker registry service based on
the open-source Docker Registry 2.0. Create and maintain Azure
container registries to store and manage your private Docker container
images.
It seems that Azure Container Register cannot be used as a general purpose Artifactory repository. You can get more details from the document here.
ACR is focused on containers. That said, we are adding Helm Repository Support, which itself are just blobs. While we're not ready to take on generic artifacts as a first class experience, you can push images that derive FROM scratch.
Steve
I have a simple docker container which runs just fine on my local machine. I was hoping to find an easy checklist how I could publish and run my docker container on Azure, but couldn't find one. I only found https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-azure/, but this document kind of leaves me alone when it comes to actually copy my local docker container to Azure. Isn't that supposed to be very easy? Can anybody point me in the right direction how to do this?
But it is really easy.. once you know where to find the docs :-). I would take the azure docs as a starting point as there are multiple options when it comes to hosting containers in Azure:
If you're looking for this...
Simplify the deployment, management, and operations of Kubernetes -> Azure Container Service (AKS)
Easily run containers on Azure with a single command -> Container Instances
Store and manage container images across all types of Azure deployments
-> Container Registry
Develop microservices and orchestrate containers on Windows or Linux
-> Service Fabric
Deploy web applications on Linux using containers
-> App Service
Based on your info I would suggest storing the image using the Azure Container Registry and host the container using Azure Container Instances. No need for a VM to manage this way.
There is an excellent tutorial you could follow (I skipped the first 1 step since it involves creating a docker image, you already have one)
Another complete guide of pushing your image to azure and create a running container can be found here.
The good thing about Azure Container Instances is that you only pay for what you actually use. The Azure Container Registry is a private image repository hosted in Azure, if course you could also use Docker Hub but using ACR makes it all really simple.
In order to run an image, you simply need to configure a new VM with the Docker Daemon. I personally found Azure's documentation to be pretty complex. Assuming you are not trying to scale your service across instances, I would recommend using docker-machine rather than the Azure guide.
docker-machine is a CLI tool published by the Docker team which automatically installs the Docker Daemon (and all the dependencies) on a host. So all you would need to do is input your Azure subscription and it will automatically create a VM configured appropriately.
In terms of publishing the image, Azure is probably not the right solution. I would recommend one of two things:
Use Docker Hub, which serves as a free hosted Docker image repository. You can simply push images to Docker Hub (or even have them built directly from your Git repository).
Configure a CD tool, such as TravisCI or CircleCI, and use these to build your image and push directly to your deployment.
To run your docker image inside ACI, You can use of Azure Container Registry.
Step0: Create Azure Container Registry
Step1: Include a Dockerfile in your application code
Step2: Build the code along with the Dockerfile with a tag and create a
Docker image ( docker build -t imagename:tag .)
Step3: Push the Docker image to Azure container Registry with a image name and tag.
Step4: Now create a ACI, while creating, choose the image type as private, provide the image name, tag, image registry login server, image registry username, image registry password ( these details can be found under access keys tab inside Azure Container Registry)
Step5: choose running os as linux, in network step you can give an dns name for your ACI, then click on review & create
Step6: once ACI gets created you can go to overview and you can see fqdn, using fqdn you can access your application running inside Azure Container Instance.