A brief presentation about AWS Elastic Container Registry and why you should consider using it instead of rolling your own private registry.

1. Amazon Web Services
Elastic Container
Registry
AWS ECR FTW

2. Who am I?
• Richard Wilson Boyd II but just call me Rich
• Senior DevOps Engineer at Civitas
• https://github.com/richardboydii/
• @richardboydii
• Likes: my family, good beer, animals cooked
expertly, automation, learning new things
• Dislikes: a**holes, manual processes,
stagnant engineering organizations

3. What is it?
• Amazon’s version of a Docker Registry
• Supports the Docker Registry HTTP API V2
• Full support for Docker CLI commands

4. Service Basics
• Each AWS Account has a default Registry (each
account only gets one for now)
• The Registry contains Repositories
• Repositories are unique namespaces for
images governed by their own access controls

5. Why is it special?
• Ability to interact outside of the Docker CLI using
the AWS CLI and SDKs
• Highly available and no need to maintain individual
instances
• Logins generated on demand and with limited
session lengths
•Repositories can be locked down using IAM policies
for more granular control

6. Why is it special? (cont’d)
• Images can be shared between AWS accounts
•Images are transmitted over HTTPS
• When at rest the images are automatically
encrypted and stored in S3
• Third party integrations (in development)

7. Service Limits
Resource Limits
Max Repositories per Account 1,000
Max Images per Repository 500
Max Number of Layers Per Image 127 (Current Docker Limit)
Max Layer Part Size 10 MiB
Min Layer Part Size 5 MiB
Max Number of Layer Parts 1,000

8. ECR Demo: Command Line
• aws ecr get-login: Generates full login string with
temporary credentials for the registry.
• aws ecr describe-repositories: List all repositories
in the registry.
• aws ecr list-images --repository-name XXXX: List all
images in a repository.
• aws ecr get-authorization-token: Query the AWS
token service for a token.

9. ECR Demo: GitHub Build Using AWS
Services
?
https://github.com/richardboydii/ecrdemo