GitHub Container Registry

Container registry for Docker (and other) images

• UI: via account’s Packages tab

Package namespace & format for docker:

• Package namespace: https://ghcr.io
• Image name format: https://ghcr.io/NAMESPACE/IMAGE_NAME:latest
  • NAMESPACE: GitHub account/org name (e.g. vinoaj)
  • latest can be replaced with a version number
  • e.g https://ghcr.io/vinoaj/my_ai_app:2.5

Associate image with repo

• Can opt to inherit permissions from repo

Authentication

• PAT (classic) (for now)

Pushing Container Images

docker push ghcr.io/vinoaj/my_app_image:latest

Dockerfile Labels

Currently 3 labels available

# URL to repo
LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source=https://github.com/vinoaj/my-app
LABEL org.opencontainers.image.description="My container image"
LABEL org.opencontainers.image.licenses=MIT

VS Code

References

Here are some useful links to delve further into the topic.