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Chapter 11. Customizing Red Hat Quay on OpenShift Container Platform

After deployment, you can customize the Red Hat Quay application by editing the Red Hat Quay configuration bundle secret spec.configBundleSecret. You can also change the managed status of components and configure resource requests for some components in the spec.components object of the QuayRegistry resource.

Use the following procedure to edit the config bundle secret in the OpenShift Container Platform console.

Procedure

  1. On the Red Hat Quay Registry overview screen, click the link for the Config Bundle Secret.

    Red Hat Quay Registry overview

  2. To edit the secret, click Actions Edit Secret.

    Edit secret

  3. Modify the configuration and save the changes.

    Save changes

  4. Monitor the deployment to ensure successful completion and that the configuration changes have taken effect.

Use the following procedure to find QuayRegistry endpoints and secrets.

Procedure

  1. You can examine the QuayRegistry resource, using oc describe quayregistry or oc get quayregistry -o yaml, to find the current endpoints and secrets by entering the following command: 

    $ oc get quayregistry example-registry -n quay-enterprise -o yaml
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    Example output

    apiVersion: quay.redhat.com/v1
kind: QuayRegistry
metadata:
  ...
  name: example-registry
  namespace: quay-enterprise
  ...
spec:
  components:
  - kind: quay
    managed: true
  ...
  - kind: clairpostgres
    managed: true
  configBundleSecret: init-config-bundle-secret
    1 
    
status:
  currentVersion: 3.7.0
  lastUpdated: 2022-05-11 13:28:38.199476938 +0000 UTC
  registryEndpoint: https://example-registry-quay-quay-enterprise.apps.docs.gcp.quaydev.org
    2
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    1
    The config bundle secret, containing the config.yaml file and any SSL/TLS certificates.
    2
    The URL for your registry, for browser access to the registry UI, and for the registry API endpoint.

11.3. Downloading the existing configuration
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The following procedures detail how to download the existing configuration using different strategies.

You can use the config bundle secret to download the existing configuration.

Procedure

  1. Describe the QuayRegistry resource by entering the following command: 

    $ oc describe quayregistry -n <quay_namespace>
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    # ...
  Config Bundle Secret:  example-registry-config-bundle-v123x
# ...
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  2. Obtain the secret data by entering the following command: 

    $ oc get secret -n <quay_namespace> <example-registry-config-bundle-v123x> -o jsonpath='{.data}'
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    Example output

    {
    "config.yaml": "RkVBVFVSRV9VU0 ... MDAwMAo="
}
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  3. Decode the data by entering the following command: 

    $ echo 'RkVBVFVSRV9VU0 ... MDAwMAo=' | base64 --decode
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    Example output

    FEATURE_USER_INITIALIZE: true
BROWSER_API_CALLS_XHR_ONLY: false
SUPER_USERS:
- quayadmin
FEATURE_USER_CREATION: false
FEATURE_QUOTA_MANAGEMENT: true
FEATURE_PROXY_CACHE: true
FEATURE_BUILD_SUPPORT: true
DEFAULT_SYSTEM_REJECT_QUOTA_BYTES: 102400000
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  4. Optional. You can export the data into a YAML file into the current directory by passing in the >> config.yaml flag. For example: 

    $ echo 'RkVBVFVSRV9VU0 ... MDAwMAo=' | base64 --decode >> config.yaml
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