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olareg

Ch 216.3of 53 Container Registries
  1. 1Runs onAPI, Linux, Mac, self-hosted
  2. 2CostsNot stated by the maker
  3. 3Retention policiesYes
2 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: olareg.org
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Overview

olareg is ranked #21 of 53 in container registries on Specifiction. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted.

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Retention policies
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Facts

Purpose
olareg is a minimal OCI conformant container registry designed around the OCI Layout structure for storing images in a directory.olareg.org · 4 Oct 2026
Deployment
It can run as a container image, a standalone binary, or a Go package.olareg.org · 4 Oct 2026
Storage
It supports directory storage and ephemeral in-memory storage.olareg.org · 4 Oct 2026
Testing
The project is designed to be embedded in Go unit tests as a simple registry for testing tools that work with container registries.olareg.org · 4 Oct 2026
Authentication
It supports basic authentication and opaque token authentication, with users, groups, and access control lists.olareg.org · 4 Oct 2026
Security
The documentation advises configuring authentication on publicly facing installs that are not read-only.olareg.org · 4 Oct 2026
Signing
The project says its binaries and images are signed with cosign and provides instructions for verifying signatures.olareg.org · 4 Oct 2026
Limits
Opaque authentication tokens expire after five minutes and require clients to reauthenticate periodically.olareg.org · 4 Oct 2026
Storage portability
The GitHub project page says OCI Layout storage makes content portable and easy to preload.github.com · 4 Oct 2026
Target use
The project describes use in unit tests and deployment in an edge environment as a cache.olareg.org · 4 Oct 2026

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