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Start with \n      \n    \u003ca href=\"https://bestonlinetutorial.com/docker/\"\u003eDocker\u003c/a\u003e or \n      \n    \u003ca href=\"https://bestonlinetutorial.com/kubernetes/\"\u003eKubernetes\u003c/a\u003e if you\u0026rsquo;re not sure where to begin, or use search to jump straight to what you\u0026rsquo;re stuck on.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"BestOnlineTutorial"},{"content":"","date":null,"permalink":"https://bestonlinetutorial.com/tags/docker/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Docker"},{"content":"Docker containerizes applications so they run the same way on your laptop, in CI, and in production. This series covers the concepts and the commands: building images, managing volumes and networks, wiring up Compose, fixing the permission errors everyone hits eventually, and working with registries day to day.\nStart with What Is Docker and Why Should You Use It? if you\u0026rsquo;re new, or jump straight to the topic you\u0026rsquo;re stuck on below.\n","date":null,"permalink":"https://bestonlinetutorial.com/docker/","section":"Docker Tutorials","summary":"Everything you need to run Docker in development and production: images, volumes, networking, Compose and the registry workflow.","title":"Docker Tutorials"},{"content":"","date":null,"permalink":"https://bestonlinetutorial.com/tags/registries/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Registries"},{"content":"","date":null,"permalink":"https://bestonlinetutorial.com/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags"},{"content":"A tag is a human-readable label pointing at a specific image inside a repository, for example nginx:1.27, postgres:16-alpine or acme/api:1.4.0. The critical thing to internalize: a tag is a mutable pointer, not an identity. Two people pulling myapp:latest an hour apart can get two different images if someone pushed in between.\nTags are pointers, digests are identity #In addition to a tag, every image also has a content-addressed digest (a SHA-256 hash of its manifest), which never changes for a given set of bytes:\ndocker pull nginx:1.27 #\u0026gt; 1.27: Pulling from library/nginx #\u0026gt; Digest: sha256:6784fb0834aa7dbbe12e3d7471e69c290df3e6ba810dc38b34ae33d3c1c05f7d #\u0026gt; Status: Image is up to date for nginx:1.27 #\u0026gt; docker.io/library/nginx:1.27 docker inspect --format=\u0026#39;{{index .RepoDigests 0}}\u0026#39; nginx:1.27 #\u0026gt; nginx@sha256:6784fb0834aa7dbbe12e3d7471e69c290df3e6ba810dc38b34ae33d3c1c05f7d Pushing a new image and reusing an existing tag just moves the pointer to a new digest; it doesn\u0026rsquo;t create a new tag or preserve the old one anywhere discoverable unless you tagged it separately first. This is exactly like a Git branch pointer versus a commit SHA: main moves, but the commit it pointed to yesterday still exists, you just need its hash to find it again.\nWhy the latest tag causes production incidents #latest is not \u0026ldquo;the newest stable release\u0026rdquo;. It\u0026rsquo;s just the tag Docker applies by default when you don\u0026rsquo;t specify one. Nothing prevents it from pointing at a broken build. The common failure mode:\nCI builds and pushes myapp:latest on every merge to main, including a broken one. A production host restarts a container (crash, node replacement, autoscaling) and re-pulls myapp:latest. It gets the broken build, even though nobody intended to deploy it. The fix is simple: never run latest in production. Pin a specific version tag or digest, and make deployments an explicit action that changes that pin, rather than something that happens implicitly on restart.\n# Fragile: resolves to whatever `latest` currently points at image: myapp:latest # Stable only by convention (as long as nobody re-pushes 1.4.0) image: myapp:1.4.0 # Guaranteed: a digest can never point at different bytes image: myapp@sha256:2d194184b6e... A tagging scheme that actually works #A reasonable convention for most teams:\nImmutable release tags: 1.4.0, following semver. Never re-pushed once published. latest: still published, pointing at the newest stable release, purely as a convenience for local docker run experimentation, and never referenced in a deployment manifest. Mutable dev/CI tags: main, pr-482, sha-a1b2c3d. They are expected to change constantly, which is fine for CI and staging, but they are never promoted directly to production without a specific version tag. Multi-part tags when you need to encode more than a version: 1.4.0-alpine, 1.4.0-arm64 (though multi-arch images usually handle architecture via manifest lists instead; see how registries work). Deleting a tag doesn\u0026rsquo;t delete the image #Untagging is cheap; it just removes a pointer. The underlying blobs stick around until a garbage-collection pass confirms nothing else references them, which is covered in more detail in the registries article. If you need an image gone for compliance reasons (it contained a leaked secret, for example), removing the tag is not enough: the image stays pullable by digest until its manifest is deleted and garbage collection has actually run. And if the registry was ever public, better treat the secret as compromised regardless.\n","date":"October 20, 2026","permalink":"https://bestonlinetutorial.com/docker/what-are-docker-tags-and-why-are-they-important.html","section":"Docker Tutorials","summary":"A tag is a mutable pointer to an image digest. Understanding that one fact explains most tagging mistakes.","title":"What Are Docker Tags and Why Are They Important?"},{"content":"A repository is a named collection of related container images stored in a registry. Where a registry is the server, a repository is closer to what most people mean when they say \u0026ldquo;an image\u0026rdquo; in casual conversation — nginx, postgres, acme/api — even though each repository actually holds many versions, distinguished by tags.\nRepository naming #A repository name follows the pattern [registry-host/][namespace/]repository:\nnginx # Docker Hub, official image library/nginx # same image, fully qualified bitnami/nginx # Docker Hub, user/org namespace ghcr.io/acme/api # GitHub Container Registry 123456789.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/api # Amazon ECR If you don\u0026rsquo;t specify a registry host, Docker assumes docker.io (Docker Hub). If you don\u0026rsquo;t specify a namespace on Docker Hub, Docker assumes library, which is reserved for Docker\u0026rsquo;s own \u0026ldquo;official images\u0026rdquo; — that\u0026rsquo;s why docker pull nginx and docker pull library/nginx pull the same thing.\nOfficial images vs. user/org namespaces #On Docker Hub specifically, repositories fall into two categories:\nOfficial images (library/*) — maintained collaboratively with upstream projects and Docker\u0026rsquo;s own security team, following documented best practices for the base OS and configuration. User and organization images (\u0026lt;namespace\u0026gt;/*) — pushed by anyone with a Docker Hub account. Quality and maintenance vary enormously; treat them the way you\u0026rsquo;d treat a random npm package. Other registries structure this differently. ECR and Artifact Registry namespace everything under your cloud account/project; GHCR namespaces under your GitHub user or org.\nCreating and pushing to a repository #Most registries create a repository implicitly the first time you push to it — there\u0026rsquo;s no separate \u0026ldquo;create repository\u0026rdquo; step for the common case:\n# note: these two commands would not work without a dockerfile to build from docker build -t ghcr.io/myuseraccount/myapp:1.4.0 . docker push ghcr.io/myuseraccount/myapp:1.4.0 If myuseraccount/myapp didn\u0026rsquo;t exist on ghcr.io yet, this push creates it. Cloud registries (ECR in particular) are sometimes an exception — ECR requires you to create the repository resource first via aws ecr create-repository, because repository-level IAM policies and lifecycle rules attach to that resource.\nPublic vs. private repositories #Every registry lets you mark a repository public (anyone can docker pull) or private (requires docker login and appropriate permissions). A few things worth knowing:\nFree tiers on hosted registries often limit the number of private repositories or pull rate, not public ones. A repository\u0026rsquo;s visibility is independent of whether individual tags are \u0026ldquo;stable\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;latest\u0026rdquo; — there\u0026rsquo;s no partial visibility per tag. Making a repository public doesn\u0026rsquo;t retroactively scrub history: if you pushed a secret in an image layer before making it public, that layer is now public too. Rotate the secret; don\u0026rsquo;t just flip the repository back to private. Repositories vs. tags, one more time #It\u0026rsquo;s worth being precise about this because it trips people up in scripts and CI configs:\ndocker pull ghcr.io/acme/api — pulls the repository\u0026rsquo;s latest tag (implicit). docker pull ghcr.io/acme/api:1.4.0 — pulls one specific tag within that repository. docker pull ghcr.io/acme/api@sha256:abc123... — pulls one specific, immutable image by digest, bypassing tags entirely. The repository is the name; the tag or digest is what picks out one specific image within it.\n","date":"October 1, 2026","permalink":"https://bestonlinetutorial.com/docker/what-are-docker-repositories-and-how-do-they-work.html","section":"Docker Tutorials","summary":"A repository is a named bucket of related image versions. Here\u0026rsquo;s how naming, namespaces and visibility actually work.","title":"What Are Docker Repositories and How Do They Work?"},{"content":"A Docker image registry is a server that stores and serves container images. Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, Amazon ECR, Google Artifact Registry, or self-hosted solutions like Distribution or open source git providers like forgejo are all registries — they implement the same OCI Distribution Specification, which is why docker pull works identically against all of them.\nRegistry, repository, and image — the terminology #These three terms get used interchangeably, but they aren\u0026rsquo;t the same thing:\nA registry is the server (registry.hub.docker.com, ghcr.io, 123456789.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com). A repository is a named collection of images inside a registry (library/nginx, acme/api). An image is a specific set of layers, usually referenced by a tag (nginx:1.27) or a content digest (nginx@sha256:...). A fully qualified image reference is a combination of these, and looks like this: \u0026lt;registry\u0026gt;/\u0026lt;repository\u0026gt;:\u0026lt;tag\u0026gt;. If you omit the registry, Docker assumes docker.io; if you omit the tag, Docker assumes :latest.\nWhat\u0026rsquo;s actually stored #Registries don\u0026rsquo;t store images as single files. They store two kinds of content, both addressed by SHA-256 digests:\nBlobs — the compressed filesystem layers and the image config JSON. Manifests — a JSON document listing which blobs make up an image, plus a media type and (for multi-arch images) a manifest list pointing at per-platform manifests. Because everything is content-addressed, a layer shared by two images only needs to be stored once. This is also why layer caching works across unrelated images: if your base image is debian:bookworm-slim, the registry (and your local Docker daemon) already has those layers the moment you pull anything else built on the same base.\nWhat happens on docker pull #When pulling a Docker image like library/nginx (or if you use docker run), this is what happens:\nDocker resolves the registry host and repository from the reference. It authenticates if required (docker login stores a token or credential helper reference in ~/.docker/config.json). It requests the manifest for the given tag via GET /v2/\u0026lt;repository\u0026gt;/manifests/\u0026lt;tag\u0026gt;. If the manifest is a manifest list (multi-arch), Docker picks the entry matching your platform and fetches that manifest. For each layer digest in the manifest, Docker checks whether it already has that blob locally. If not, it downloads it via GET /v2/\u0026lt;repository\u0026gt;/blobs/\u0026lt;digest\u0026gt;. Docker verifies each blob against its digest, then unpacks the layers to build the image. docker push is the same process in reverse: blobs are uploaded first (registries typically deduplicate: if a blob with that digest already exists, it\u0026rsquo;s skipped), and the manifest is written last, since a manifest referencing missing blobs would be invalid.\nRunning your own registry #The current reference implementation is distribution/distribution. It was previously simply called registry up until version 2, but was renamed to distribution starting with version 3. You can have one running in a minute (in this example registry:3 and distribution/distribution refer to the same image, which they are):\ndocker run -d -p 5000:5000 --restart=always --name registry registry:3 #\u0026gt; f2473c44ab1544bf0071e3f173799abddf8e9604f3ade0a81cc502bd23190cd2 docker pull alpine:latest #\u0026gt; latest: Pulling from library/alpine #\u0026gt; e2de96513ba9: Already exists #\u0026gt; Digest: sha256:294b683cb724975bec92580e1e685676bd4b50bda910ddb8c51d4cabeaec77e6 #\u0026gt; Status: Downloaded newer image for alpine:latest #\u0026gt; docker.io/library/alpine:latest docker tag alpine:latest localhost:5000/alpine:latest #\u0026gt; no output on success docker push localhost:5000/alpine:latest #\u0026gt; The push refers to repository [localhost:5000/alpine] #\u0026gt; 74d97c428c51: Pushed #\u0026gt; latest: digest: sha256:7cefa58bd70cbf86bb0ef44b9c27a9c6a633763977ea40868d1bfe9278967b25 size: 527 docker pull localhost:5000/alpine:latest #\u0026gt; latest: Pulling from alpine #\u0026gt; Digest: sha256:7cefa58bd70cbf86bb0ef44b9c27a9c6a633763977ea40868d1bfe9278967b25 #\u0026gt; Status: Image is up to date for localhost:5000/alpine:latest #\u0026gt; localhost:5000/alpine:latest (This round-trips a stock alpine image just to prove the registry works end to end. To push an image you\u0026rsquo;ve actually built yourself instead, see How Do You Build a Docker Image From a Dockerfile. The docker tag/docker push steps work the same either way.)\nThe example above works over plain HTTP with zero daemon configuration because Docker automatically treats localhost/127.0.0.0/8 as an insecure-allowed registry — that exception exists specifically so local testing like this just works. It stops applying the moment the registry is reached at anything else: a LAN IP, a real hostname, another machine\u0026rsquo;s daemon pushing to yours. From there, Docker refuses the connection outright unless you either put TLS in front of it (the real fix) or explicitly add the registry to insecure-registries in daemon.json (which works fine, but poses security issues even for a trusted internal network). For anything beyond local testing, it\u0026rsquo;s also probably better to back the storage driver with S3, GCS or Azure Blob rather than a local filesystem.\nCleaning up old images #As mentioned before: blobs are shared, so deleting a tag doesn\u0026rsquo;t automatically reclaim disk space. The underlying blobs might still be referenced by another tag. Deletion is a two-step process: first you unlink the manifest, then you run garbage collection to sweep unreferenced blobs. On the reference registry that we spun up in the example above:\n# 1. Delete the manifest by digest (not by tag — the delete API works on digests) # You can find the digest in the output of the docker push command (see above example) curl -X DELETE http://localhost:5000/v2/alpine/manifests/sha256:7cefa58bd70cbf86bb0ef44b9c27a9c6a633763977ea40868d1bfe9278967b25 # 2. Reclaim the space # this command calls the /bin/registry binary on our local test-registry docker exec registry bin/registry garbage-collect /etc/distribution/config.yml #\u0026gt; time=\u0026#34;2026-09-29T20:43:20.587532306Z\u0026#34; level=debug msg=\u0026#34;using \\\u0026#34;text\\\u0026#34; logging formatter\u0026#34; #\u0026gt; alpine #\u0026gt; 0 blobs marked, 3 blobs and 0 manifests eligible for deletion #\u0026gt; blob eligible for deletion: sha256:e2de96513ba9eb53b431787ec8a65cdde380ac4772a3e4c4b714dcfde2a102b5 #\u0026gt; time=\u0026#34;2026-09-29T20:43:20.589164059Z\u0026#34; level=info msg=\u0026#34;Deleting blob: /docker/registry/v2/blobs/sha256/e2/e2de96513ba9eb53b431787ec8a65cdde380ac4772a3e4c4b714dcfde2a102b5\u0026#34; environment=development go.version=go1.26.8 instance.id=01a0eee8-5c8b-792d-8d7f-a203505f8b2d service=registry #\u0026gt; blob eligible for deletion: sha256:320994c3b997e2ec6433f717f153e108023c5bec8fefa8d76b83451d16d05ea8 #\u0026gt; time=\u0026#34;2026-09-29T20:43:20.589642689Z\u0026#34; level=info msg=\u0026#34;Deleting blob: /docker/registry/v2/blobs/sha256/32/320994c3b997e2ec6433f717f153e108023c5bec8fefa8d76b83451d16d05ea8\u0026#34; environment=development go.version=go1.26.8 instance.id=01a0eee8-5c8b-792d-8d7f-a203505f8b2d service=registry #\u0026gt; blob eligible for deletion: sha256:7cefa58bd70cbf86bb0ef44b9c27a9c6a633763977ea40868d1bfe9278967b25 #\u0026gt; time=\u0026#34;2026-09-29T20:43:20.589810264Z\u0026#34; level=info msg=\u0026#34;Deleting blob: /docker/registry/v2/blobs/sha256/7c/7cefa58bd70cbf86bb0ef44b9c27a9c6a633763977ea40868d1bfe9278967b25\u0026#34; environment=development go.version=go1.26.8 instance.id=01a0eee8-5c8b-792d-8d7f-a203505f8b2d service=registry #\u0026gt; alpine: layer link eligible for deletion: sha256:320994c3b997e2ec6433f717f153e108023c5bec8fefa8d76b83451d16d05ea8 #\u0026gt; alpine: layer link eligible for deletion: sha256:e2de96513ba9eb53b431787ec8a65cdde380ac4772a3e4c4b714dcfde2a102b5 #\u0026gt; time=\u0026#34;2026-09-29T20:43:20.589990853Z\u0026#34; level=info msg=\u0026#34;Deleting layer link path: /docker/registry/v2/repositories/alpine/_layers/sha256/320994c3b997e2ec6433f717f153e108023c5bec8fefa8d76b83451d16d05ea8/link\u0026#34; environment=development go.version=go1.26.8 instance.id=01a0eee8-5c8b-792d-8d7f-a203505f8b2d service=registry #\u0026gt; time=\u0026#34;2026-09-29T20:43:20.590100246Z\u0026#34; level=info msg=\u0026#34;Deleting layer link path: /docker/registry/v2/repositories/alpine/_layers/sha256/e2de96513ba9eb53b431787ec8a65cdde380ac4772a3e4c4b714dcfde2a102b5/link\u0026#34; environment=development go.version=go1.26.8 instance.id=01a0eee8-5c8b-792d-8d7f-a203505f8b2d service=registry Hosted registries like Docker Hub, ECR, GHCR, etc. handle garbage collection for you, usually with a retention policy you configure rather than a manual sweep. On a self-hosted registry it might be worth setting up a cronjob before your hosting bill explodes.\n","date":"September 29, 2026","permalink":"https://bestonlinetutorial.com/docker/what-are-docker-image-registries-and-how-do-they-work.html","section":"Docker Tutorials","summary":"A registry is just a content-addressed blob store with an HTTP API in front of it. Here\u0026rsquo;s how the pieces fit together.","title":"What Are Docker Image Registries and How Do They Work?"},{"content":" English version\n1. Verantwortlicher #proxima9\nInh. Oliver Jakobi\nLerchenweg 1\n25355 Barmstedt\nDeutschland\nE-Mail: hi@proxima9.com\n(Vollständige Kontaktdaten siehe Impressum.)\n2. Hosting und Server-Logfiles #Diese Website läuft auf einem dedizierten Root-Server, gemietet bei der Hetzner Online GmbH (Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Deutschland). 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