How to upload Docker images to Azure Container Registry - Hosting Docker images in Azure Container Registry

Azure Container Registry is a managed, private docker registry service. You can create and maintain Azure container registries to store and manage your private Docker container images.

It is alternative to Docker Hub. Azure Container Registry allows you to build, store, and manage container images and artifacts in a private registry for all types of container deployments.

Let us see how to upload a docker images from your VM into ACR.

Pre-requistes:

Make sure you have docker installed on your VM.
 

Step 1 - Create Azure Container Registry (ACR)

Go to https://portal.azure.com/
Create a Resource, Give container registry as a name

Click on Create

  

Enter values as mentioned below:

Give registry name, resource group and choose Enable admin user and SKU as Basic 

 Click on Review and then create, now your container registry is been created.

Step 2 - Download sample Python App

Go to your machine where you have docker images stored. perform below command to download sample pythonapp which is already dockerized.

 

git clone https://bitbucket.org/ananthkannan/mydockerrepo/src/master/pythonApp/ 

cd  pythonApp

docker build . -t mypythonapp

type below command:

sudo docker images

this should show docker images you have created locally.

Now go to ACR, click on docker registry you created. Click on access keys under Settings.

Copy value under login server 

Step 3 - Upload your docker images to ACR

Login to Azure Container Registry through command line.

sudo docker login mydockerazureregistry.azurecr.io

Username: mydockerazureregistry

Enter password by copying value below password

Now tag the docker image per as below:

sudo docker tag mypythonapp mydockerazureregistry.azurecr.io/mypythonapp

sudo docker push mydockerazureregistry.azurecr.io/mypythonapp

That's it..Docker image is pushed into ACR. You can see it under Services--> repositories