Senior DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Top 5
Great for storing images on containers and has helpful support but needs better scalability
Pros and Cons
  • "It's great for storing images on containers."
  • "The solution has no areas that need improvement."

What is our primary use case?

It's a container repository. It's like a Docker hub. With it, you can post the image of the container right there.

How has it helped my organization?

We can use these images in an ECR on Kubernetes, which has been quite useful to the organization. 

What is most valuable?

It's great for storing images on containers.

What needs improvement?

The solution has no areas that need improvement. 

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For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for five years. I've used the product for a while at this point. It's been many years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I'd rate the stability zero out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I'd rate the scalability zero out of ten.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support has been very helpful and responsive. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

What was our ROI?

We have witnessed an ROI while using the solution. 

What other advice do I have?

There isn't a specific version associated with the product.

I'd advise potential users to just give it a try.

I'd rate the solution five out of ten.

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Engineering Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Easy to download, install and manage but dashboards and monitoring system could be improved
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is that it's easy to download, install and manage."
  • "The security, dashboards, and monitoring system could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

I mainly use Container Registry to containerize applications and ship/deploy them.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is that it's easy to download, install and manage.

What needs improvement?

The security, dashboards, and monitoring system could be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I've had no issues with stability.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was easy.

What about the implementation team?

We used an in-house team to implement.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Container Registry is reasonably priced.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Container Registry seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
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Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Has helped our organization minimize time by ensuring there are no vulnerabilities
Pros and Cons
  • "The scanning of Docker images is the most valuable feature."
  • "It's not an open source, and we pay per hour to Microsoft Azure."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case for the solution is storing Docker images on Azure Container Registry, and we deploy it on cloud.

How has it helped my organization?

The solution has helped minimize time by ensuring there is no vulnerability. If there is any vulnerability in the Docker image, the build fails and does not allow it to deploy to a production environment.

What is most valuable?

The scanning of Docker images is the most valuable feature.

What needs improvement?

It's not an open source, and we pay per hour to Microsoft Azure.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using the solution for six months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable. I rate it as eight out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable, and ten users currently utilize it in our organization. I rate the scalability as eight out of ten.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward, and you have to take the service directly from Microsoft Azure Service from Azure Portal. A third party completed the deployment.

What other advice do I have?

I rate the solution as eight out of ten. Regarding advice, if you create an account in Azure Portal, there is a $200 free credit for the new user, and they can use this $200 free credit and practice an ACRA case later.

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Cloud Infrastructure Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
MSP
Top 10
Provides secure duplication and images can be deployed direct to an Azure Web application
Pros and Cons
  • "Provides secure duplication and the option for service webhooks."
  • "Lacks the option of having access keys stored in a master key vault."

What is our primary use case?

I'm a cloud infrastructure consultant and we have a partnership with Azure.

What is most valuable?

I like that the solution has encryption and can make use of access keys for security, what they call panic identity. The feature provides secure duplication and also provides the option for service webhooks - it's very useful. Container Registry is a good, private platform. The quick start option gives a step-by-step guide on how to move images to and from your containers. The solution is user-friendly and there's plenty of documentation to help guide you through. It's great that images can be deployed from the Container Registry direct to an Azure Web application. From inside the Container Registry repositories, you can deploy images directly to a fresh web app. It reduces redundancy and the stress of leaving the current page of the Container Registry and going to a web app container to create a new web app. It can be done from the container registries dialogue space which I like. Replications is a very nice feature, although it requires you to upgrade to a premium SKU.

What needs improvement?

I don't have many issues with the solution but I would like it if the access keys could be stored in a master key vault. If they could be hashed and the value of that hash stored in the key vault so that it's not visible on the portal, would be a helpful addition. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for a year. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I haven't yet needed to scale significantly. I currently have about 8 repositories on the Container Registry and haven't had any problems. I think it's a scalable product.

How are customer service and support?

All the steps involved with this product have been quite easy for me to deal with and I've never needed to make contact with customer service. 

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is very easy. I deploy for clients so it was easy for me to implement it within our organization. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Pricing is flexible; you can choose the basic, standard, or a premium license based on your needs. I think it's quite flexible because you can choose the option that falls within your budget. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate this solution nine out of 10. 

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DevOps Consultant at GP Coders
Consultant
Easy to use, private, secure, and it performs well
Pros and Cons
  • "One of the benefits of this solution is that it's private and secure."
  • "The deployment is an area that needs improvement, as it can take some time to deploy."

What is our primary use case?

I am a DevOps consultant. I provide the architecture, assessments, and optimization of the services that we use to build a better infrastructure, and other services.

We are basically using Azure Container Registry for a project that we have in the healthcare domain. There, we use the container registry and as well as Azure DevOps, apart from the Azure Cloud and the built release pipeline, along with this container registry and the self-hosted server. 

I would say that this allows us to build, store, and manage the container images and the artifact in the private registry that Azure provides. 

It's a managed container registry that we don't need to configure or set up within our premises. It's all in the cloud. The login and the portal id where we can store that information, and the containers. 

We can also see a list of images located in the repository. For example, I can pull any Docker image using the Docker command. I can then store that image within the repository, within this Docker Registry Container.

I don't have to go to the Docker Hub or any other hub. This is one of the safest private repositories over the cloud that I have, that I can use.

This is one of the most beneficial solutions to be used over the cloud.

What is most valuable?

One of the benefits of this solution is that it's private and secure. It's easy to use, it's fast, and it's scalable. 

We can have that OCA format that we can use and it's a multi-tenant service, which we use for the endpoint data that we have. 

We can automate container builds for testing and other purposes, and we can use the CLI (command-line interface) to interact with the registry. 

We can manage Windows and Linux containers within a single registry. We don't have to create multiple container registries, different images, and containers. 

These are the benefits of having the Container Registry and we can use the Webhook as well, for security purposes and for pushing the container image using the CI/CD pipeline. 

These are the benefits we get using the Container Registry.

This solution has multiple features and I can't really say that I can rely on, or that there is only one feature or one that I love more. 

The app services and the DC/OS and the KS, also the service tiers that they are providing, security using the logins, images, artifacts, and many more.

The task of pushing and deploying images that we use in the containers is very good.

It's very secure and it uses authentication.

Security, the deployment pipelines, and the developers are using the ACR task instead of using other third-party products.

What needs improvement?

It's difficult to find areas of improvement. I have always found it to be better than any CI/CD pipeline.

The deployment is an area that needs improvement, as it can take some time to deploy.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's very stable because it has security integration as well.

It's integrated with the echo security, which helps the developmental production life cycle controls, in the container application that we use.

It's very efficient and stable to use.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This solution is scalable.

I'm not using it that extensively. I have a 40/50GB of data that I am storing using the container images. That hasn't cost me very much, I am using it in a very optimal way.

How are customer service and technical support?

I have not contacted technical support. We haven't needed it yet.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Previously, I used open-source only. 

I never used the AWS (Amazon Web Services) providing the ECR, the elastic container Registry. It's a bit expensive compared to Azure. I am certified, but I haven't used that.

Cons of an open-source product are that it has limited security features, that I am looking for without replication. It doesn't have the access key features and the policies which are positive with ACR.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward for me. It was not complex.

I didn't find it to be difficult in setting up the ACR with the Docker containers that we were using.

It took time to deploy this containerization and the application. For example, when creating the ACR and you click to deploy it and create the replication, it takes some time to create the replication.

I feel that It took more than thirty minutes to complete the deployment.

My initial strategy was to secure the images that we use for the microservices and the web services for production. I didn't want to include any other repository. I just wanted to have a secure ability instead of creating my own or using the open-source repository.

That was my initial purpose because it provides the access key and the web host, which other third-party open-sourced solutions are not providing. This allows us to use the active directory to access the services.

The solution doesn't require any further maintenance post-deployment.

What was our ROI?

It gives me exposure and learning in this technology. Apart from that, it's the client who is paying me to manage and service the infrastructure. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Azure is a bit expensive.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, this solution is very beneficial. If my infrastructure or our services are within the Azure Cloud, and if I'm using the ECR, it's very helpful to maintain the images that we use for the web services or the microservices for the ATS and the dockers. We don't have to maintain those images for other third parties or other repositories.

It's very good and for those who don't use it, you must look into it, and just go for it.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

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Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
An excellent, secure solution for managing container workloads
Pros and Cons
  • "We like the fact that this is a secure solution, that employs a token-based system, which can be used to manage all the applications under this product."
  • "We have found that it is sometimes difficult to pull images from the host application."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution to build, deploy and manage our container registry within a single integrated tool.

How has it helped my organization?

This product allows us to have a single point of deployment for full projects, making tasks quicker and easier to manage.

What is most valuable?

We like the fact that this is a secure solution, that employs a token-based system, which can be used to manage all the applications under this product.

What needs improvement?

We have found that it is sometimes difficult to pull images from the host application.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been working with this solution for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have found this to be a very stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This is a very easily scalable solution in our experience.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of this solution is very easy and straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented this solution using our in-house team, who also carry out our  client implementations.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The enterprise license for this solution is quite expensive compared with other solutions on the market.

What other advice do I have?

We would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
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Sr. SDET at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Has reasonable pricing
Pros and Cons
  • "Pricing is reasonable."
  • "Implementation needs improvement. We have a lot of open, online sources. Doing a deployment is easy for us. The only issue is when we have VPN connections and we try to pull the images from Container images to the local Dockers, it slows down."

What is our primary use case?

I work for a logistics business, so we have a few applications and we apply them to Azure. We pull the codes, stop at the Docker images, and then we push it to the Container for tracking.

What needs improvement?

Implementation needs improvement. We have a lot of open, online sources. Doing a deployment is easy for us. The only issue is when we have VPN connections and we try to pull the images from Container images to the local Dockers, it slows down.

The images are slow when we have a VPN setup. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Azure Container Registry for three years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's hard for us to do a customer partition piece update. The indexing always crashes. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Pricing is reasonable.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Azure Container Registry an eight out of ten. The setup should be simplified. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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New Technologies Adoption Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
It has great support and valuable features like portability and elasticity
Pros and Cons
  • "The portability and elasticity features are the most valuable."
  • "It should be easier to use. It can have more graphical interfaces to manage containers. At present, the handling or management of the containers is very basic."

What is our primary use case?

We use it for some specific machine learning models to take advantage of the elasticity of the containers. This is the main use of containers.

Around 80% of our implementation is on the public cloud, but in some cases, we use a hybrid model. Our clients are large businesses.

What is most valuable?

The portability and elasticity features are the most valuable. 

What needs improvement?

It should be easier to use. It can have more graphical interfaces to manage containers. At present, the handling or management of the containers is very basic.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Azure Container Registry for two years.

How are customer service and technical support?

We get great support from Microsoft. I would rate them a ten out of ten.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was complex. The deployment took two or three days because it involved infrastructure and development.

What other advice do I have?

I would advise taking the time to go through the documentation before starting to use this solution. It is important to gain knowledge before you start using it.

I would rate Azure Container Registry an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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