Docker registry on minikube

kube-registry.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: ReplicationController
metadata:
  name: kube-registry-v0
  namespace: kube-system
  labels:
    k8s-app: kube-registry
    version: v0
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    k8s-app: kube-registry
    version: v0
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        k8s-app: kube-registry
        version: v0
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: registry
        image: registry:2.5.1
        resources:
          # keep request = limit to keep this container in guaranteed class
          limits:
            cpu: 100m
            memory: 100Mi
          requests:
            cpu: 100m
            memory: 100Mi
        env:
        - name: REGISTRY_HTTP_ADDR
          value: :5000
        - name: REGISTRY_STORAGE_FILESYSTEM_ROOTDIRECTORY
          value: /var/lib/registry
        volumeMounts:
        - name: image-store
          mountPath: /var/lib/registry
        ports:
        - containerPort: 5000
          name: registry
          protocol: TCP
      volumes:
      - name: image-store
        hostPath:
          path: /data/registry/

---

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: kube-registry
  namespace: kube-system
  labels:
    k8s-app: kube-registry
spec:
  selector:
    k8s-app: kube-registry
  ports:
  - name: registry
    port: 5000
    protocol: TCP

---

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
  name: kube-registry-proxy
  namespace: kube-system
  labels:
    k8s-app: kube-registry
    kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
    version: v0.4
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        k8s-app: kube-registry
        version: v0.4
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: kube-registry-proxy
        image: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-registry-proxy:0.4
        resources:
          limits:
            cpu: 100m
            memory: 50Mi
        env:
        - name: REGISTRY_HOST
          value: kube-registry.kube-system.svc.cluster.local
        - name: REGISTRY_PORT
          value: "5000"
        ports:
        - name: registry
          containerPort: 80
          hostPort: 5000

how i can used this for my images?

@johndiego If I understand your questions correctly, you want to know how to push images from your host machine to the docker registry running within minikube. If yes, you can follow these simple steps:

Step 1: Expose the minikube registry port to your host machine

Please refer to this this link for detailed instructions.

https://hasura.io/blog/sharing-a-local-registry-for-minikube-37c7240d0615/

Step 2: Tag image on host machine

docker tag docker/whalesay localhost:5000/whalesay

Step 3: Push image from host to minikube registry

docker push localhost:5000/whalesay

Hello - I'm getting a connection refused error, not sure what's causing it.

My setup:

MacOS with docker desktop, created kubernetes cluster with 3 nodes:

╰─ kubectl get nodes
NAME           STATUS   ROLES                  AGE     VERSION
minikube       Ready    control-plane,master   10m     v1.23.1
minikube-m02   Ready    <none>                 10m     v1.23.1
minikube-m03   Ready    <none>                 9m35s   v1.23.1

I added localhost:5000 as an insecure registry in docker desktop's "Docker Engine" setting; not sure if this matters but I've tried both with and without:

"insecure-registries": [
    "127.0.0.1:5000"
  ],

Steps:

1. Setup the registry

kubectl create -f kube-registry.yaml

2. Created a port-forward:

kubectl port-forward --namespace kube-system \
$(kubectl get po -n kube-system | grep kube-registry-v0 | \awk '{print $1;}') 5000:5000

3. Built docker image of a sample app and tagged it:

╰─ docker image ls | grep node
127.0.0.1:5000/node-redis-mongo-app   latest    bb331bf61bc4   33 hours ago   954MB
node-redis-mongo-app                  latest    bb331bf61bc4   33 hours ago   954MB

4. Attempted to push image to registry but ended up with the error:

╰─ docker push 127.0.0.1:5000/node-redis-mongo-app
Using default tag: latest
The push refers to repository [127.0.0.1:5000/node-redis-mongo-app]
Get "http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2/": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:5000: connect: connection refused

5. I can curl the registry just fine:

╰─ curl 127.0.0.1:5000
Handling connection for 5000

Any ideas?

I also ran into the issue above. I'm using rootless docker fwiw. As a workaround, I added the result of minikube ip as an insecure registry in my docker daemon and restarted it. I was able to docker push $(minikube ip):5000/<image>:<tag> and pulling on cluster side worked fine as localhost:5000/<image>:<tag>.