Container Registry Reference
Validated on 17 Nov 2025 • Last edited on 17 Nov 2025
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.
The DigitalOcean API
You can use the Container Registry API to create, delete, and manage your container registry. If you create more than one registry under a Professional plan, use the Container Registries API to manage them.
The DigitalOcean Command Line Client, doctl
doctl is the command-line interface for the DigitalOcean API. It supports most of the same actions available in the API and DigitalOcean Control Panel.
doctl supports managing container registries from the command line. See the doctl registry documentation or use doctl registry --help for more information. If you create more than one registry under a Professional plan, use the doctl registries to manage them.