Pushing Images Using the Docker CLI


Find out how to push images to Container Registry using the Docker CLI.

You use the Docker CLI to push images to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry (also known as Container Registry).

To push an image, you first use the docker tag command to create a copy of the local source image as a new image (the new image is actually just a reference to the existing source image). As a name for the new image, you specify the fully qualified path to the target location in Container Registry where you want to push the image, including the name of a repository.

For example, assume you have a local image named acme-web-app:latest (the image name comprising the repository name of acme-web-app, and the image tag of latest). Let's say you want to push this image to Container Registry into a repository called project01/acme-web-app with a version identifier of v2.0.test, in the Ashburn region of the acme-dev tenancy. When you use the docker tag command, you'd name the new image with the fully qualified path to its destination, in the format <region-key>.ocir.io/<tenancy-namespace>/<repo-name>:<version>. So in this case, you'd name the new image iad.ocir.io/ansh81vru1zp/project01/acme-web-app:v2.0.test. Subsequently, when you use the docker push command, the image's name ensures it is pushed to the correct destination.

Your permissions control the images you can push to Container Registry (see Policies to Control Repository Access). You can push images to repositories you've created (see Creating a Repository). You can also push images to repositories that the groups to which you belong have been granted access by appropriate identity policies. If you belong to the Administrators group, you can push images to any repository in the tenancy.

Note that the instructions in this topic assume that the repository to which you want to push images already exists. That will usually be the case, but need not always be so (see Creating a Repository).
 Note

Container Registry is an Open Container Initiative-compliant registry. As a result, you can store any artifacts that conform to Open Container Initiative specifications, such as Docker images, manifest lists (sometimes known as multi-architecture images), and Helm charts. The instructions in this topic assume you are storing Docker images and using the Docker CLI.

To push images to Container Registry using the Docker CLI:

If you already have an auth token, go to the next step. Otherwise:

In the top-right corner of the Console, open the Profile menu and then click User settings to view the details.
On the Auth Tokens page, click Generate Token.
Enter a friendly description for the auth token. Avoid entering confidential information.
Click Generate Token. The new auth token is displayed.
Copy the auth token immediately to a secure location from where you can retrieve it later, because you won't see the auth token again in the Console.
Close the Generate Token dialog.

In a terminal window on the client machine running Docker, log in to Container Registry by entering docker login <region-key>.ocir.io, where <region-key> corresponds to the key for the Container Registry region you're using. For example, docker login iad.ocir.io. See Availability by Region.

When prompted for a username, enter your username in the format <tenancy-namespace>/<username>, where <tenancy-namespace> is the auto-generated Object Storage namespace string of your tenancy (as shown on the Tenancy Information page). For example, ansh81vru1zp/jdoe@acme.com. If your tenancy is federated with Oracle Identity Cloud Service, use the format <tenancy-namespace>/oracleidentitycloudservice/<username>.
When prompted for a password, enter the auth token you copied earlier.

Locate the image on the client machine that you want to push:

In a terminal window on your client machine, enter docker images to list the available images.

For example:

    
$ docker images
REPOSITORY        TAG              IMAGE ID      CREATED       SIZE
acme-web-app      latest           8e0506e14874  2 hours ago   162.6 MB
acme-web-app      v1.0             7d9495d03763  2 hours ago   162.6 MB
<none>            <none>           6ebd328f833d  5 hours ago   162.6 MB
hello-world       latest           80b84820d442  5 weeks ago   890 B
					

Find the local image on the client machine that you want to push to Container Registry.

In the output of the docker images command, look for the specific image that you want to push. You'll need to uniquely identify this image later, in one of the following ways:

using its id
using its image name (its repository name and image tag separated by a colon)

For example, on the client machine you might have an acme-web-app image. In the output of the docker images command, look for the specific acme-web-app image that you want to push. You can uniquely identify that particular image in one of the following ways:

using its id (for example, 8e0506e14874)
using its image name (its repository name and image tag separated by a colon, for example acme-web-app:latest)

Use the docker tag command to create a copy of the original image as a new image (the new image is actually just a reference to the existing original image). As a name (or tag) for the new image, you specify the fully qualified path to the target location in Container Registry where you want to push the image, by entering:

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docker tag <image-identifier> <target-tag>

where:

<image-identifier> uniquely identifies the original image, either using the image's id (for example, 8e0506e14874), or the image's name (its original repository name and image tag separated by a colon, for example acme-web-app:latest).

<target-tag> is the fully qualified path to the target location in Container Registry where you want to push the image, in the format <region-key>.ocir.io/<tenancy-namespace>/<repo-name>:<version> where:

<region-key> is the key for the Container Registry region you're using. For example, iad. See Availability by Region.
ocir.io is the Container Registry name.
<tenancy-namespace> is the auto-generated Object Storage namespace string of the tenancy that owns the repository to which you want to push the image (as shown on the Tenancy Information page). For example, the namespace of the acme-dev tenancy might be ansh81vru1zp. Note that for some older tenancies, the namespace string might be the same as the tenancy name in all lower-case letters (for example, acme-dev). Note also that your user must have access to the tenancy.
<repo-name> is the name of the target repository to which you want to push the image (for example, project01/acme-web-app). Note that you'll usually specify a repository that already exists, but that need not always be the case (see Creating a Repository).
<version> is a version identifier you want to give the image in Container Registry (for example, v2.0.test).

For example, combining the previous examples, you might enter:

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docker tag 8e0506e14874 iad.ocir.io/ansh81vru1zp/project01/acme-web-app:v2.0.test

Confirm that the Docker image has been correctly tagged on the client machine by entering docker images and verifying that the list of images includes an image with the tag you specified.

For example:


$ docker images
REPOSITORY                                      TAG                   IMAGE ID      CREATED       SIZE
iad.ocir.io/ansh81vru1zp/project01/acme-web-app v2.0.test             8e0506e14874  1 minute ago  162.6 MB
acme-web-app                                    latest                8e0506e14874  2 hours ago   162.6 MB
acme-web-app                                    v1.0                  7d9495d03763  2 hours ago   162.6 MB
<none>                                          <none>                6ebd328f833d  5 hours ago   162.6 MB
hello-world                                     latest                80b84820d442  5 weeks ago   890 B
					

Push the Docker image from the client machine to Container Registry by entering:

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docker push <target-tag>

where <target-tag> is in the format <region-key>.ocir.io/<tenancy-namespace>/<repo-name>:<version> where:

<region-key> is the key for the Container Registry region you're using. For example, iad. See Availability by Region.
ocir.io is the Container Registry name.
<tenancy-namespace> is the auto-generated Object Storage namespace string of the tenancy that owns the repository to which you want to push the image (as shown on the Tenancy Information page). For example, the namespace of the acme-dev tenancy might be ansh81vru1zp. Note that for some older tenancies, the namespace string might be the same as the tenancy name in all lower-case letters (for example, acme-dev). Note also that your user must have access to the tenancy.
<repo-name> is the name of the target repository to which you want to push the image (for example, project01/acme-web-app). Note that you'll usually specify a repository that already exists, but that need not always be the case (see Creating a Repository).
<version> is the version identifier you want to give the image in Container Registry (for example, v2.0.test).

For example:

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docker push iad.ocir.io/ansh81vru1zp/project01/acme-web-app:v2.0.test