Chapter 4. Deploying Red Hat Quay

Procedure

1. Enter the following command to create a minimal config.yaml file that is used to deploy the Red Hat Quay container:

   $ touch config.yaml

2. Copy and paste the following YAML configuration into the config.yaml file:

   BUILDLOGS_REDIS:
       host: quay-server.example.com
       password: strongpassword
       port: 6379
   DATABASE_SECRET_KEY: a8c2744b-7004-4af2-bcee-e417e7bdd235
   DB_URI: postgresql://quayuser:quaypass@quay-server.example.com:5432/quay
   DISTRIBUTED_STORAGE_CONFIG:
       default:
           - LocalStorage
           - storage_path: /datastorage/registry
   DISTRIBUTED_STORAGE_DEFAULT_LOCATIONS: []
   DISTRIBUTED_STORAGE_PREFERENCE:
       - default
   SECRET_KEY: e9bd34f4-900c-436a-979e-7530e5d74ac8
   SERVER_HOSTNAME: quay-server.example.com
   SETUP_COMPLETE: true
   USER_EVENTS_REDIS:
       host: quay-server.example.com
       password: strongpassword
       port: 6379

3. Create a directory to copy the Red Hat Quay configuration bundle to:

   $ mkdir $QUAY/config

4. Copy the Red Hat Quay configuration file to the directory:

   $ cp ~/Downloads/quay-config.tar.gz $QUAY/config

Procedure

1. Create a local directory that will store registry images by entering the following command:

   $ mkdir $QUAY/storage

2. Set the directory to store registry images:

   $ setfacl -m u:1001:-wx $QUAY/storage

Procedure

1. Enter the following command to start the Quay registry container, specifying the appropriate volumes for configuration data and local storage for image data:

   $ sudo podman run -d --rm -p 80:8080 -p 443:8443  \
      --name=quay \
      -v $QUAY/config:/conf/stack:Z \
      -v $QUAY/storage:/datastorage:Z \
      registry.redhat.io/quay/quay-rhel8:v3.10.16