Google Cloud Container Registry
Storing container images in GCP.
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Google Cloud Container Registry
The GCP container registry is a container registry flavor that comes built-in with ZenML and uses the Google Artifact Registry or the Google Container Registry to store container images.
When to use it
You should use the GCP container registry if:
one or more components of your stack need to pull or push container images.
you have access to GCP. If you're not using GCP, take a look at the other container registry flavors.
How to deploy it
When using the Google Container Registry, all you need to do is enable it here.
Infrastructure Deployment
A GCP Container Registry can be deployed directly from the ZenML CLI:
You can pass other configuration specific to the stack components as key-value arguments. If you don't provide a name, a random one is generated for you. For more information about how to work use the CLI for this, please refer to the dedicated documentation section.
How to find the registry URI
When using the Google Container Registry, the GCP container registry URI should have one of the following formats:
To figure out the URI for your registry:
Go to the GCP console.
Click on the dropdown menu in the top left to get a list of available projects with their names and IDs.
Use the ID of the project you want to use fill in the template
gcr.io/<PROJECT_ID>
and get your URI (You can also use the other prefixes<us/eu/asia>.gcr.io
as explained above if you want your images stored in a different region).
Infrastructure Deployment
A GCP Container Registry can be deployed directly from the ZenML CLI:
You can pass other configurations specific to the stack components as key-value arguments. If you don't provide a name, a random one is generated for you. For more information about how to work use the CLI for this, please refer to the dedicated documentation section.
How to use it
To use the GCP container registry, we need:
Docker installed and running.
The GCP CLI installed and authenticated.
The registry URI. Check out the previous section on the URI format and how to get the URI for your registry.
We can then register the container registry and use it in our active stack:
Additionally, we'll need to configure Docker, so it can pull and push images:
For more information and a full list of configurable attributes of the GCP container registry, check out the API Docs .
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