Container Registry Features
Validated on 7 Apr 2026 • Last edited on 7 Apr 2026
The DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR) is a private Docker image registry that lets you store and manage private container images. DOCR integrates natively with Docker environments and DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters.
Use Cases
DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR) provides a private, managed registry for storing and distributing container images and OCI-compatible artifacts.
- Secure, private storage of your Docker images
- Automatic configuration of your Docker environment
- Automatic configuration of your DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters
- Automatic global load balancing across caching endpoints in multiple geographic regions
- Ability to store any artifact that is compatible with OCI-based registries, such as Helm charts
Multiple Registry Support
You can create up to nine additional registries (a maximum of 10) per team if your container registry uses the Professional subscription plan. You can create these registries in different regions using the DigitalOcean Control Panel, CLI, or API and the storage is shared among them. To increase your maximum number of registries, contact support.
Automatic Garbage Collection public
When enabled, automatic garbage collection continuously cleans up unreferenced image layers in the background. This frees storage in your registry without requiring you to manually run garbage collection or put your registry into read-only mode.