olareg

Spec sheet

Purpose

olareg is a minimal OCI conformant container registry designed around the OCI Layout structure for storing images in a directory.Read 4 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Product

olareg is a minimal OCI conformant container registry designed around the OCI Layout structure for storing images in a directory.Read 11 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Platforms

The installation guide gives a linux/amd64 binary download example and mentions removing macOS quarantine on downloaded binaries.Read 11 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Deployment

olareg can be deployed as a container image, a standalone binary, or used as a Go package.Read 11 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Security

The documentation advises configuring authentication on publicly facing installs that are not read-only.Read 4 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Maker

The opened olareg pages identify the project and its documentation but do not state a maker organization, headquarters, or founding date.Read 11 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Access control

Authentication configuration supports users, groups, and repository ACLs with read, write, and delete access options.Read 11 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Artifact signatures

The installation guide says binaries and container images are signed with cosign and provides verification commands.Read 11 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Authentication

The documentation describes basic authentication and opaque token authentication; opaque tokens expire after five minutes.Read 11 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Container setup

The installation guide provides Docker commands for persistent storage and for an ephemeral in-memory registry.Read 11 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Dependencies

The project avoids external dependencies and is designed for embedding in unit tests or deployment in an edge environment as a cache.Read 11 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Limits

Opaque authentication tokens expire after five minutes and require clients to reauthenticate periodically.Read 4 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Password handling

The auth guide says user passwords are stored as bcrypt hashes generated with a salt.Read 11 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Release artifacts

The GitHub releases page lists Darwin amd64 and arm64 binaries and says the v0.2.2 release added linux/riscv64 artifacts.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security guidance

The installation guide recommends configuring authentication for publicly facing installs that are not read-only.Read 11 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Signing

The project says its binaries and images are signed with cosign and provides instructions for verifying signatures.Read 4 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Storage

It supports directory storage and ephemeral in-memory storage.Read 4 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Storage portability

The GitHub project page says OCI Layout storage makes content portable and easy to preload.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Target use

The project describes use in unit tests and deployment in an edge environment as a cache.Read 4 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Testing

The project is designed to be embedded in Go unit tests as a simple registry for testing tools that work with container registries.Read 4 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Testing use

The installation guide describes using olareg with an httptest-based server in Go unit tests.Read 11 Oct 2026 · olareg.org

Where Specifiction places it

• Container Registries#32 of 607.4