Using the new Google Container Registry with Managed VMs

[Amy Unruh]

hi all,

We recently announced the beta release of a new service: Google Container Registry (https://cloud.google.com/tools/container-registry/), for the secure hosting, sharing, and management of private container repositories.  

See this blog post for further info:

  http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/01/secure-hosting-of-private-Docker-repositories-in-Google-Cloud-Platform.html

For those of you using Managed VMs, we would like to invite you to leverage this new service for deploying to your Managed VM application.

One-time setup instructions:

First, ensure your gcloud is up to date with "gcloud components update".

Then simply enable use of the hosted registry with: "gcloud config set app/hosted_registry true".

Now, whenever you run "gcloud preview app setup-managed-vms", it will pull through the Google Container Registry.

For now, deployments will need the following server flag:

     gcloud preview app deploy --server gcr.appengine.google.com .

NOTE: You can revert use of the hosted registry with:

   gcloud config unset app/hosted_registry     

If things don't work, please send mail to gcr-c...@google.com.

We hope you will try it out!

 -Amy