Container Registry is deprecated. Effective March 18, 2025, Container Registry is shut down and writing images to Container Registry is unavailable.
For more information about the Container Registry deprecation and how to migrate to Artifact Registry, see
Container Registry deprecation.
Container Registry documentation
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.
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