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User Guide (API Version 2015-09-21)

Creating a Repository

Before you can push your Docker images to Amazon ECR, you need to create a repository to store them in. You can create Amazon ECR repositories with the AWS Management Console, or with the AWS CLI and AWS SDKs.

To create a repository

  1. Open the Amazon ECS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecs/.

  2. From the navigation bar, choose the region to create your repository in.

    Note

    Amazon ECR is available in the following regions:

    Region NameRegion
    US East (N. Virginia)us-east-1
    US East (Ohio)us-east-2
    US West (N. California)us-west-1
    US West (Oregon)us-west-2
    EU (Ireland)eu-west-1
    EU (London)eu-west-2
    EU (Frankfurt)eu-central-1
    Asia Pacific (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1
    Asia Pacific (Singapore)ap-southeast-1
    Asia Pacific (Sydney)ap-southeast-2
    Canada (Central)ca-central-1

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Repositories.

  4. On the Repositories page, choose Create repository.

  5. For Repository name, enter a unique name for your repository and choose Next step.

  6. (Optional) On the Build, tag, and push Docker image page, complete the following steps to push an image to your new repository. If you do not want to push an image at this time, you can choose Done to finish.

    1. Retrieve the docker login command that you can use to authenticate your Docker client to your registry by pasting the aws ecr get-login command from the console into a terminal window.

      Note

      The get-login command is available in the AWS CLI starting with version 1.9.15. You can check your AWS CLI version with the aws --version command.

    2. Run the docker login command that was returned in the previous step. This command provides an authorization token that is valid for 12 hours.

      Important

      When you execute this docker login command, the command string can be visible by other users on your system in a process list (ps -e) display. Because the docker login command contains authentication credentials, there is a risk that other users on your system could view them this way and use them to gain push and pull access to your repositories. If you are not on a secure system, you should consider this risk and log in interactively by omitting the -p password option, and then entering the password when prompted.

    3. (Optional) If you have a Dockerfile for the image you want to push, build the image and tag it for your new repository by pasting the docker build command from the console into a terminal window (make sure you are in the same directory as your Dockerfile).

    4. Tag the image for your Amazon ECR registry and your new repository by pasting the docker tag command from the console into a terminal window. The console command assumes that your image was built from a Dockerfile in the previous step; if you did not build your image from a Dockerfile, replace the first instance of repository:latest with the image ID or image name of your local image that you want to push.

    5. Push the newly tagged image to your Amazon ECR repository by pasting the docker push command into a terminal window.

    6. Choose Done to finish.