How do I browse the embedded docker registry?

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Hi,

I’ve been trying different kludgy things to try to browse the embedded (with kurl) container registry, but I’m not happy with any of them.

In my current configuration, I am using rook+ceph as the object store, so I’m finding it’s overly complicated to try to inspect that itself.

I’ve been trying to use command-line curl to do GET REST API requests, but I’m not having luck with that, either. I can connect, and the /v2/_catalog GET call works, but when I try using one of the returned repositories it doesn’t recognize the repository, which is bizarre.

I have tried podman, which has worked the best so far, but today I wasn’t able to read image tags (which is super strange, because it worked yesterday doing the exact same thing). [ podman search --tls-verify=false --list-tags registry.kurl/repo/project ]

I found this helm chart and project, and seemingly got it to start properly, but it also cannot see the image tags.
helm-charts/charts/docker-registry-browser at master · klausmeyer/helm-charts · GitHub

It feels like either I am trying too hard [this should be a solved problem] or somehow the registry got into a bad state and tag reading is busted, or both.

For reference, I am used to using AWS ECR or Google GCR with browser-based exploration capability, and I would love to get something like that working.

Thanks!
Tom

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@tomk Would this community post help? Also feel free to comment if there are improvements to make. Maybe a container that gives a UI view would be a good add-on?

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I looked at the referred post. The post primarily covers the connection (which is useful), but not any server-side browsing.

(In my current situation, I am trying to debug why images don’t appear to be getting pushed properly, so I really want to see what’s on the server-side of the registry.)

A container with a UI would be a great add-on as a feature request.

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I removed my answer after I realized I misinterpreted your question. Apologies.

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What about trying docker-ls ref GitHub - mayflower/docker-ls: Tools for browsing and manipulating docker registries.