7.7. Creating a mirrored repository

Procedure

1. Navigate to the Repositories page of your registry and click the name of a repository, for example, test-mirror.
2. Click Settings Repository state.
3. Click Mirror.
4. Click the Mirroring tab and enter the details for connecting to the external registry, along with the tags, scheduling and access information:

5. Enter the details as required in the following fields:

   • Registry Location: The external repository you want to mirror, for example, registry.redhat.io/quay/quay-rhel8.
   • Tags: Enter a comma-separated list of individual tags or tag patterns. (See Tag Patterns section for details.)
   • Start Date: The date on which mirroring begins. The current date and time is used by default.
   • Sync Interval: Defaults to syncing every 24 hours. You can change that based on hours or days.
   • Skopeo timeout interval: Defaults to 300 seconds (5 minutes). The maximum timeout length is 43200 seconds (12 hours).
   • Robot User: Create a new robot account or choose an existing robot account to do the mirroring.
   • Username: The username for accessing the external registry holding the repository you are mirroring.
   • Password: The password associated with the Username. Note that the password cannot include characters that require an escape character (\).

6. In the Advanced Settings section, you can optionally configure SSL/TLS and proxy with the following options:

   • Verify TLS: Select this option if you want to require HTTPS and to verify certificates when communicating with the target remote registry.
   • Accept Unsigned Images: Selecting this option allows unsigned images to be mirrored.
   • HTTP Proxy: Select this option if you want to require HTTPS and to verify certificates when communicating with the target remote registry.
   • HTTPS PROXY: Identify the HTTPS proxy server needed to access the remote site, if a proxy server is needed.
   • No Proxy: List of locations that do not require proxy.
7. After filling out all information, click Enable Mirror.