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Learning Docker

By : Pethuru Raj, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, Vinod Singh, Vinod kumar Singh, Jeeva Chelladhurai, Pethuru Raj Chelliah
Book Image

Learning Docker

By: Pethuru Raj, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, Vinod Singh, Vinod kumar Singh, Jeeva Chelladhurai, Pethuru Raj Chelliah

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Docker
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Run your own index and registry


In this section, we will perform the following steps to run our own index and registry, and finally, push the image:

  1. Deployment of the index components and the registry from GitHub.

  2. Configuration of nginx with the Docker Registry.

  3. Set up SSL on the web server for secure communication.

Step 1 – Deployment of the index components and the registry from GitHub

The index components include apache-utils and ngnix for password authentication and the SSL feature for HTTPS support. The user must note that the current version of the Docker registry supports only HTTP to connect to the registry. So, it is mandatory for the user to deploy and use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to secure the data. SSL creates an encrypted connection between a web server and the client's web browser that allows private data to be transmitted without the issues of eavesdropping, data tampering, or message forgery. This is a proven way of securing the data using SSL certificates that is widely accepted...