Project Quay on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

Project Quay is the upstream open source community project of Red Hat Quay: a container native image registry for building, storing and distributing container images. It provides private repositories with fine grained access control across users, organizations, teams and robot accounts, a standards compliant OCI and Docker v2 registry API, tag lifecycle management with expiration, auto pruning and immutable tags, and a complete REST API for automation. It is the same codebase that powers the public Quay.io service.

This image runs the full upstream service topology natively as system services: the web, registry and security scanning application servers, the complete set of background workers for garbage collection, notifications, quota management and auto pruning, with PostgreSQL and Redis alongside. Registry storage lives on the instance disk under a single well known path, and large image pushes work out of the box. It suits teams that want a private registry under their own control: platform engineering groups hosting internal images, CI/CD pipelines that need a fast nearby push target, and organizations that prefer their build artifacts never leave their own network.

Common uses

• Private container image hosting for teams
• CI/CD push and pull target
• Image lifecycle management with tag expiration and auto pruning

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.