We recently moved to a mountainside, and while we are theoretically within the service area of our local cable internet provider, we have been waiting for them to get back to us about installation for over two weeks.
During that time, I’ve been doing my development work using the LTE on my phone (thanks unlimited data from Visible!). However, LTE isn’t really the fastest thing in the world, especially when you’re trying to pull a bunch of docker images as you’re testing multiple local kind clusters.
While I was waiting for another cluster to spin up, I decided to look into running a local Docker mirror. Docker publishes a recipe for this, but calling it a recipe feels a little misleading – there’s no code to copy and paste!
So here’s my recipe:
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Get a registry container running:
$ docker run --detach --env "REGISTRY_PROXY_REMOTEURL=https://registry-1.docker.io" --publish=5000:5000 --restart=always --volume "$HOME/docker-registry:/var/lib/registry" --name registry registry:2 -
Update your docker daemon JSON configuration to include the following:
{ "registry-mirrors": ["http://localhost:5000"] }