Docker Registry with Basic Authentication

We set up a secure docker registry. Now we want to add authentication to this registry to prevent any unauthorized user from pushing any image to our registry. This will not be a role-based authentication we will set up Basic Authentication.

👉 Let’s create a directory named auth using the mkdir command. Here's how you can do it:

localhost:~$ mkdir auth

This command will create a directory named auth in the current location. You can navigate to this directory using cd auth if needed.

👉 Install htpasswd if it's not already available.

• For Debian-based systems (like Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2-utils

• For Red Hat-based systems (like CentOS):

sudo yum install httpd-tools

• For macOS (using Homebrew):

brew install httpd

👉 After installing htpasswd, you can proceed with creating the password file as mentioned earlier:

localhost:~$ htpasswd -bnB megha password > auth/htpasswd

The command you provided will create a password file named htpasswd in the auth directory and store the username "megha" along with the hashed password in that file. Here's a…