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Image Registry - CI/CD Glossary Definition

An image registry is a service that stores and distributes container images (Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, Amazon ECR). Clients push images to it and pull them from it.

An image registry is a service that stores and distributes container images (Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, Amazon ECR). Clients push images to it and pull them from it.

An image registry is a service that stores and distributes container images (Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, Amazon ECR). Clients push images to it and pull them from it.

In CI

A build job pushes the tagged image to a registry; deploy jobs and runners pull it. Registry auth is usually handled with short-lived OIDC tokens.

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