Mirror Registry

This application will allow user to easily install Quay and its required components using a simple CLI tool. The purpose is to provide a registry to hold a mirror of OpenShift images.

Pre-Requisites

• RHEL 8 or Fedora machine with podman v3.3 and openssl installed
• Fully qualified domain name for the Quay service (must resolve via DNS, or at least /etc/hosts)
• Key-based SSH connectivity on the target host (will be set up automatically for local installs, in case of remote hosts see here)
• make (only if compiling your own installer)

Installation

Download one of the installer package from our releases page:

• offline version (contains all required images to run Quay)
• online version (additional container images to run Quay and Redis will be downloaded by the installer)

Running the installer

To install Quay on your local host with your current user account, run the following command:

$ ./mirror-registry install

The following flags are also available:

--autoApprove           A boolean value that disables interactive prompts. Will automatically delete quayRoot directory on uninstall. This defaults to false.
--initPassword          The password of the init user created during Quay installation. If not specified, this will be randomly generated.
--initUser              The username of the init user created during Quay installation. This defaults to init.
--quayHostname          The value to set SERVER_HOSTNAME in the Quay config.yaml. This defaults to <targetHostname>:8443.
--quayRoot          -r  The folder where quay persistent quay config data is saved. This defaults to $HOME/quay-install.
--quayStorage           The folder where quay persistent storage data is saved. This defaults to a Podman named volume 'quay-storage'. Root is required to uninstall.
--sqliteStorage         The folder where quay sqlite db data is saved. This defaults to a Podman named volume 'sqlite-storage'. Root is required to uninstall.
--ssh-key           -k  The path of your ssh identity key. This defaults to ~/.ssh/quay_installer.
--sslCert               The path to the SSL certificate Quay should use.
--sslCheckSkip          Whether or not to check the certificate hostname against the SERVER_HOSTNAME in config.yaml.
--sslKey                The path to the SSL key.
--targetHostname    -H  The hostname of the target you wish to install Quay to. This defaults to $HOST.
--targetUsername    -u  The user on the target host which will be used for SSH. This defaults to $USER
--verbose           -v  Show debug logs and ansible playbook outputs
--no-color          -c  Force disabling colored output

Note: Installing mirror registry will enable systemd user services to run without the target user session being active.

Note: You may need to modify the value for --quayHostname in case the public DNS name of your system is different from its local hostname.

Note If you do not supply --sslCert and --sslKey, these will be autogenerated and made available on that target host under the {quayRoot}/quay-rootCA directory.

Installing on a Remote Host

You can provide your ssh private key to the installer CLI with the --ssh-key flag.

To install Quay on a remote host, run the following command:

$ ./mirror-registry install -v --targetHostname some.remote.host.com --targetUsername someuser --quayRoot /home/someuser/quay-install -k ~/.ssh/my_ssh_key --quayHostname some.remote.host.com

Note: --quayRoot is currently required for remote install since the default installation directory is based on the users home directory

Behind the scenes, Ansible is using ssh -i ~/.ssh/my_ssh_key [email protected] as the target to run its playbooks.

What does the installer do?

This command will make the following changes to your machine

• Generate trusted SSH keys, if not supplied, in case the deployment target is the local host (required since the installer is ansible-based)
• Pulls Quay and Redis images from registry.redhat.io (if using online installer)
• Sets up systemd files on host machine to ensure that container runtimes are persistent
• Creates the folder defined by --quayRoot (default: $HOME/quay-install) contains install files, local storage, and config bundle.
• Installs Quay and creates an initial user called init with an auto-generated password
• Access credentials are printed at the end of the install routine

Access Quay

Once installed, the Quay console will be accessible at https://<quayhostname>:8443. Refer to the output of the install process to retrieve user name and password.

You can then log into the registry using the provided credentials, for example:

$ podman login -u init -p <password> --tls-verify=false quay:8443

After logging in, you can run commands such as:

$ podman pull docker.io/library/busybox:latest
$ podman tag docker.io/library/busybox:latest quay:8443/init/busybox:latest
$ podman push quay:8443/init/busybox:latest --tls-verify=false
$ podman pull quay:8443/init/busybox:latest --tls-verify=false

Prior to pushing quay:8443/init/busybox, you must create the repository "busybox" in the Quay console. In future versions of mirror registry this will be created automatically.

Upgrade

To upgrade Quay from localhost, run the following command:

$ sudo ./mirror-registry upgrade -v

To upgrade Quay from a remote host, run the following command:

$ ./mirror-registry upgrade -v --targetHostname some.remote.host.com --targetUsername someuser -k ~/.ssh/my_ssh_key

Note: If Quay has been installed with --quayHostname or --quayRoot the same options need to be specified at upgrade. The upgrade process does not currently detect previous installations or configurations.

Uninstall

To uninstall Quay from localhost, run the following command:

$ sudo ./mirror-registry uninstall -v

To uninstall Quay from a remote host, run the following command:

$ ./mirror-registry uninstall -v --targetHostname some.remote.host.com --targetUsername someuser -k ~/.ssh/my_ssh_key

Note: If Quay has been installed with --quayRoot the same option needs to be specified at uninstall.

Local DNS resolution

In case the target host does not have a resolvable DNS record, you can rely on the default host name called quay and add the following line to your host machine's /etc/hosts file:

<targetHostname ip>   quay

Generate SSH Keys

In order to run the installation playbooks, you must have password-less SSH access in place. Local installations will automatically generate the SSH keys for you.

Note Passwordless ssh from root account is blocked by default on OpenSSH.

To generate your own SSH keys to install on a remote host, run the following commands.

$ ssh-keygen
$ ssh-add
$ ssh-copy-id <targetHostname>

Compile your own installer

To compile the mirror-registry.tar.gz for distribution you need only podman and make installed.

NOTE: The build process pulls images from registry.redhat.io, you may need to run sudo podman login registry.redhat.io before starting the build.

You can build the installer running the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/quay/mirror-registry.git
$ cd mirror-registry
$ make build-online-zip # OR make build-offline-zip

This will generate a mirror-registry.tar.gz which contains the mirror-registry binary, the image-archive.tar and the execution-environment.tar (if using offline installer). These archives contain all images required to set up Quay.

Once generated, you may untar this file on your desired host machine for installation. You may use the following command:

mkdir mirror-registry
tar -xzvf mirror-registry.tar.gz -C mirror-registry

NOTE This command may take some time to complete depending on host resources.