Push Docker Image to AWS ECR from CLI/Powershell

Pre-requisites

1. Install AWS CLI and configure it
2. IAM user with permission to ECR or AWS root account (Please avoid it for security purposes)
3. (basic user)

Create an ECR Repository

1. Login to AWS console:
2. Create ECR Repository: Type "ECR" in search box -> Amazon ECR -> Repositories -> Create repository

3. Enter name of repository
   

4. Verify private repository is created.

1. Click on Repo-> "View Push Command" button $ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.$AWS_REGION.amazonaws.com/my-repo ##AWS_ACCOUNT_ID ~ 907060907920 $AWS_REGION ~ us-west-2

For MacOS/Linux

aws ecr get-login-password --region $AWS_REGION | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $AWS_ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.$AWS_REGION.amazonaws.com


For Windows

(Get-ECRLoginCommand).Password | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin %AWS_ACCOUNT_ID%.dkr.ecr.%AWS_REGION%.amazonaws.com

If Windows user gets below error, just use MacOS/Linux method - To know more click here to get a workaround on windows error.

ERROR:

 (Get-ECRLoginCommand).Password | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 917165987323.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Get-ECRLoginCommand : The term 'Get-ECRLoginCommand' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file,
or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and
try again.
At line:1 char:2
+ (Get-ECRLoginCommand).Password | docker login --username AWS --passwo ...
+  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Get-ECRLoginCommand:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

• After Successful Login to ECR

Login Succeeded

Logging in with your password grants your terminal complete access to your account.
For better security, log in with a limited-privilege personal access token. Learn more at https://docs.docker.com/go/access-tokens/ 

• Create a simple and name it as 'Dockerfile' > Note: in Windows create a text file and add in below code and save as "Dockerfile" including quotes(")

FROM ubuntu:latest

• Build Docker image via Dockerfile docker build -t jz-repo .

PS C:\Users\Jasper\OneDrive\Documents\CodeRepo\aws_ecr> docker build -t jz-repo .
[+] Building 33.4s (6/6) FINISHED                                                                        docker:default
 => [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile                                                               0.1s
 => => transferring dockerfile: 55B                                                                                0.0s
 => [internal] load .dockerignore                                                                                  0.1s
 => => transferring context: 2B                                                                                    0.0s
 => [internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/ubuntu:latest                                                   2.9s
 => [auth] library/ubuntu:pull token for registry-1.docker.io                                                      0.0s
 => [1/1] FROM docker.io/library/ubuntu:latest@sha256:aabed3296a3d45cede1dc866a24476c4d7e093aa806263c27ddaadbdce  30.2s
 => => resolve docker.io/library/ubuntu:latest@sha256:aabed3296a3d45cede1dc866a24476c4d7e093aa806263c27ddaadbdce3  0.1s
 => => sha256:aabed3296a3d45cede1dc866a24476c4d7e093aa806263c27ddaadbdce3c1054 1.13kB / 1.13kB                     0.0s
 => => sha256:b492494d8e0113c4ad3fe4528a4b5ff89faa5331f7d52c5c138196f69ce176a6 424B / 424B                         0.0s
 => => sha256:c6b84b685f35f1a5d63661f5d4aa662ad9b7ee4f4b8c394c022f25023c907b65 2.30kB / 2.30kB                     0.0s
 => => sha256:445a6a12be2be54b4da18d7c77d4a41bc4746bc422f1f4325a60ff4fc7ea2e5d 29.54MB / 29.54MB                  24.5s
 => => extracting sha256:445a6a12be2be54b4da18d7c77d4a41bc4746bc422f1f4325a60ff4fc7ea2e5d                          5.0s
 => exporting to image                                                                                             0.0s
 => => exporting layers                                                                                            0.0s
 => => writing image sha256:18f1928b30e0cc26fd9e768656be0c61f3fc5ee34fd78f1ae56b1694b9f43ce4                       0.0s
 => => naming to docker.io/library/jz-repo                                                                         0.0s

What's Next?
  View summary of image vulnerabilities and recommendations → docker scout quickview

• Tag Docker Image to push it to ECR repository docker tag jz-repo:latest 1234.dkr.ecr.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/my-repo:latest
• Push the Docker image to ECR repository

docker push 1234.dkr.ecr.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/my-repo:latest

The push refers to repository [1234.dkr.ecr.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/my-repo]
dc0585a4b8b7: Pushed
latest: digest: sha256:969ad889a83b2444fab9bf5be2f781b855b060163de1d9ef38bd3cbbde21f8a7 size: 529

• verify Pushed Image