Ask HN: Has anyone self/on-prem hosted a container registry

It's always been one of those items deep down on the "to consider" list, and my rationale was that there really aren't any straight-forward solutions for this and with Gitlab and Github offering their own registries it was never a problem.

But yesterday I found out that Docker's Registry core (Distribution) [0] is OpenSource (and used by other registries too!), but I haven't seen many mentions of it until then. I've checked out their documentation and it seems solid.

So, what is your experience with self-hosting registries be it Distribution, Harbour or something else. Any hidden PITA? I myself will spin Distribution up on the dev env and see how it goes!

[0]: https://github.com/distribution/distribution