Container Registry documentation

Container Registry is deprecated and scheduled for shutdown. Effective May 15, 2024, Artifact Registry hosts images for the gcr.io domain in projects without previous Container Registry usage. After March 18, 2025, Container Registry will be shut down.

To get started with managing containers on Google Cloud, use Artifact Registry. If you use Container Registry, learn how to transition to Artifact Registry to manage your containers on Google Cloud.

For more information on the deprecation and shutdown, see the deprecations page and release notes.

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Container Registry is a service for storing private container images. It provides a subset of features provided by Artifact Registry, a universal repository manager and the recommended service for managing container images and other artifacts in Google Cloud. Learn more

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