It would be nice if a Kubernetes distro took a page out of the "serverless" playbook and just embedded a registry. Or maybe I should just use GHCR
In my case it's still faster than doing the builds would be -- but I'm definitely gonna have to get machines with persistent local cache in the mix at some point so that these operations will finish within a few seconds instead of a few minutes ...
In theory it wouldn't be hard to just take docker-distribution and run it as a pod in the cluster with an attached volume if you wanted a registry in the cluster. So it's probably somewhere between trivial and takes a bit of effort if you're really motivated to have something in cluster.
Here are all the projects already using zot in some form or another.
If you want some lightweight registry, use "official" docker registry. I'm running it inside Kubernetes and it consumes it just fine.
Does this not do what you want? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/lifec...
I can't speak to the other "registry cloud products" except for GitLab, which is its own special UX nonsense, but they also support expiry after enough whisky consumption