Azure Container Registry Valuable Features

Marek Kubovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud and DevOps Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Specific tokens can be used to set folder structure or restrict things like read or write access. 

The solution has good accessibility and is quite easy to understand. 

Configurations are quite simple. 

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StevenJohnson1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Perficient

Feature-wise, the security model and access controls are pretty straightforward and valuable.

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Aravindhan Suresh - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Hippo Video

What I like best about Azure Container Registry is that it's fast. It also has 24 x 7 reliability. I didn't face any downtime issues using Azure Container Registry.

I also like how secure the solution is, especially as it's from Microsoft. Microsoft has very secure cloud services.

Azure Container Registry also provides role-based access, a very useful feature, so my team can't access the solution if it's pre-production.

I can say that Azure Container Registry has done an excellent job for the company.

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Lukasz Stefaniszyn - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution architect / DevOps tech leader / Backend RestAPI / Frontend React.js at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

What I like best about Azure Container Registry is the isolation feature from the boundaries of the infrastructure you are trying to deploy. You have Docker as a service that you can run and define. You can define different types of programming languages that you would like to use or a predefined version that's been approved by the security team. Azure Container Registry gives you better flexibility in your day-to-day work. The solution allows you to isolate standard containers, which is its most valuable feature.

I also like that Azure Container Registry gives you excellent information about what's happening. For example, you can look into what types of images you've gathered.

Azure Container Registry does what it's supposed to do and gives you visibility into the Docker images, the logs, information on pulling and pushing the data, etc.

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SunilKumar 1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Architect at Xtivia

The continuity screen is a valuable feature. What I initially attempted was deploying an application directly into the company's infrastructure, specifically using the agent mobility infrastructure. However, I've now shifted my approach to utilizing a deposit fee. This change will enable me to conduct operational CI/CD testing.

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SV
Director - Cloud Security at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the zone replication and resiliency, because otherwise you have to build a system, and you need to worry about the resiliency and the backup of those codes. With this solution, you don't have to worry about all those things.

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RK
Microsoft and Dev-ops Architect at Mphasis

You can access the Azure Container Registry and store container images. You can also see the versioning history and other details about your images.

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SP
Architect- Cloud/Automation at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Azure Container Registry is an easy-to-install, easy-to-configure, and easy-to-deploy solution. The solution requires minimal overhead. To manage our own Azure Container Registry, we go to Azure, create a registry for us, and start publishing the images.

The way Azure RBAC is configured, our oldest access control, allows us to leverage that so that no one can push it, and we can use it in our solution. I used Azure Container Registry with my Azure Batch job to run the tagging solution.

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RR
Senior DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It's great for storing images on containers.

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MK
Engineering Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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

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Mohammed Fareed - PeerSpot reviewer
Azure DevOps Lead at DXC Technology

The scanning of Docker images is the most valuable feature.

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Theophilus Ehimen Sawyerr - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Infrastructure Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

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.

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HS
DevOps Consultant at GP Coders

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.

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VB
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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.

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AS
New Technologies Adoption Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The portability and elasticity features are the most valuable. 

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