Docker Registry With a Let's Encrypt Certificate

A one-liner to run an SSL Docker registry generating a Let's Encrypt certificate.

This command will create a registry proxying the Docker hub, caching the images in a registry volume.

A Lets' Encrypt certificate will be auto-generated and stored in the host directory as letsencrypt.json. You could also use a Docker volume to store it.

In order for the certificate generation to work, the registry needs to be accessible from the internet in port 443. After the certificate is generated that's no longer needed.

docker run -d -p 443:5000 --name registry \
  -v `pwd`:/etc/docker/registry/ \
  -v registry:/var/lib/registry \
  -e REGISTRY_HTTP_ADDR=0.0.0.0:5000 \
  -e REGISTRY_HTTP_HOST=https://docker.example.com \
  -e REGISTRY_HTTP_TLS_LETSENCRYPT_CACHEFILE=/etc/docker/registry/letsencrypt.json \
  -e REGISTRY_HTTP_TLS_LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=admin@example.com \
  -e REGISTRY_PROXY_REMOTEURL=https://registry-1.docker.io \
  registry:2

You can also create a config.yml in this directory and run the registry using the file instead of environment variables.

version: 0.1
storage:
  filesystem:
http:
  addr: 0.0.0.0:5000
  host: https://docker.example.com
  tls:
    letsencrypt:
      cachefile: /etc/docker/registry/letsencrypt.json
      email: admin@example.com
proxy:
  remoteurl: https://registry-1.docker.io

Then run:

docker run -d -p 443:5000 --name registry \
  -v `pwd`:/etc/docker/registry/ \
  -v registry:/var/lib/registry \
  registry:2

If you want to use this as a remote repository and not just for proxying, remove the proxy entry in the configuration.