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doctl registries login

Generated on 20 Oct 2025 from doctl version v1.146.0

Usage

doctl registries login <registry-name> [flags]

Logs Docker into Container Registry making pull and push commands to your private container registry authenticated.

The following example logs Docker into a registry named example-registry and provides Docker with read-only credentials:

doctl registries login example-registry --read-only=true

Option	Description
`--expiry-seconds`	The length of time the registry credentials are valid for, in seconds. By default, the credentials expire after 30 days. Default: `0`
`--help`, `-h`	Help for this command
`--never-expire`	Sets the DigitalOcean API token generated by the login command to never expire. By default, this is set to false. Default: `false`
`--read-only`	Sets the DigitalOcean API token generated by the login command to read-only, causing any push operations to fail. By default, the API token is read-write. Default: `false`

Command	Description
doctl registries	Display commands for working with multiple container registries

Option	Description
`--access-token`, `-t`	API V2 access token
`--api-url`, `-u`	Override default API endpoint
`--config`, `-c`	Specify a custom config file Default:
`--context`	Specify a custom authentication context name
`--http-retry-max`	Set maximum number of retries for requests that fail with a 429 or 500-level error Default: `5`
`--http-retry-wait-max`	Set the minimum number of seconds to wait before retrying a failed request Default: `30`
`--http-retry-wait-min`	Set the maximum number of seconds to wait before retrying a failed request Default: `1`
`--interactive`	Enable interactive behavior. Defaults to true if the terminal supports it (default false) Default: `false`
`--output`, `-o`	Desired output format [text\|json] Default: `text`
`--trace`	Show a log of network activity while performing a command Default: `false`
`--verbose`, `-v`	Enable verbose output Default: `false`