AWS Elastic Container Registry Cheat Sheet

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) - Fully managed container registry offering high-performance hosting, so you can reliably deploy application images and artifacts anywhere

Alternatives

• Docker Hub
• JFrog Artifactory
• Azure Container Registry
• Harbor
• Google Container Registry
• Red Hat Quay
• JFrog Container Registry

Quick start

• Login
  • get-login-password:aws ecr get-login-password --region region | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com

• Create a repository:
  

  aws ecr create-repository \
      --repository-name hello-repository \
      --image-scanning-configuration scanOnPush=true \
      --region region
  

• Tag image

  • docker tag hello-world:latest aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/hello-repository

• Push

  • docker push aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/hello-repository

• Pull

  • docker pull aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/hello-repository:latest

• Delete an image
  

  aws ecr batch-delete-image \
      --repository-name hello-repository \
      --image-ids imageTag=latest \
      --region region
  

• Delete a repository
  

  aws ecr delete-repository \
    --repository-name hello-repository \
    --force \
    --region region
  

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