Setting up a custom pack registry involves the installation of a registry server and configuring it with the Palette console. Once installed, the Spectro Cloud CLI tool can be used to manage the contents of the pack registry. Pack contents are periodically synchronized with the Palette console.

• Ensure you have a Docker container runtime Docker to be installed on the machine.

• The HTTP utility htpasswd is required to be installed for user authentication encryption.

• The minimum machine compute specifications are 1 vCPU and 2 GB Memory.

• Firewall ports 443/80 are required to be opened on the machine to allow traffic from the Palette console and Spectro CLI tool.

Palette provides a Docker image for the pack registry server. The following steps need to be performed to deploy the pack registry server using this docker image:

1. Configure the user credentials by using the htpasswd utility and store the credentials in a file locally. This file will be mounted inside the pack registry docker container.

   mkdir -p /root/auth

2. For Admin Users: The command-line below has a placeholder to specify your unique, secure password for admin users.

   htpasswd -Bbn admin {enter your secure password choice} > /root/auth/htpasswd-basic

3. For Other Users: The command-line following has the placeholder to specify your unique, secure password for read-only users.

   htpasswd -Bbn spectro {enter your secure password choice} >> /root/auth/htpasswd-basic

4. If HTTPS mode is being used, create a directory called certs.

   mkdir -p /root/certs

openssl req \
  -newkey rsa:4096 -nodes -sha256 -keyout tls.key \
  -x509 -days 1825 -out tls.crt

Country Name (2 letter code) [XX]:
State or Province Name (full name) []:
Locality Name (eg, city) [Default City]:
Organization Name (eg, company) [Default Company Ltd]:
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:
Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:[REGISTRY_HOST_DNS]
Email Address []:

Example:
REGISTRY_HOST_DNS - registry.com

5. Copy the tls.crt and tls.key files from the Certificate Authority into the /roots/certs directory. This directory will be mounted inside the registry Docker container.

6. Pack contents in a pack registry can be stored locally on the host or an external file system. An external file system is recommended so that the pack contents can be easily mounted on another pack registry instance in the event of restarts and failures. Create a directory or mount an external volume to the desired storage location. Example: /root/data

7. Pull the latest Palette pack registry Docker image using the docker CLI.

       docker pull gcr.io/spectro-images-public/release/spectro-registry:2.6.0

8. Create the Docker container using the docker run command:

   • HTTPS mode

     docker run -d \
         -p 443:5000 \
         --restart=always \
         --name spectro-registry \
         --mount type=bind,source=/root/auth,target=/auth,readonly \
         --mount type=bind,source=/root/data,target=/data \
         --mount type=bind,source=/root/certs,target=/certs,readonly \
         -e REGISTRY_LOG_LEVEL=info \
         -e REGISTRY_AUTH=htpasswd \
         -e REGISTRY_AUTH_HTPASSWD_REALM="Registry Realm" \
         -e REGISTRY_AUTH_HTPASSWD_PATH=/auth/htpasswd-basic \
         -e REGISTRY_HTTP_TLS_CERTIFICATE=/certs/tls.crt \
         -e REGISTRY_HTTP_TLS_KEY=/certs/tls.key \
         spectro-registry:latest

• HTTP mode (not recommended)

      docker run -d \
          -p 80:5000 \
          --restart=always \
          --name spectro-registry \
          --mount type=bind,source=/root/auth,target=/auth,readonly \
          --mount type=bind,source=/root/data,target=/data \
          -e  REGISTRY_LOG_LEVEL=info \
          -e  REGISTRY_AUTH=htpasswd \
          -e  REGISTRY_AUTH_HTPASSWD_REALM="Registry Realm" \
          -e  REGISTRY_AUTH_HTPASSWD_PATH=/auth/htpasswd-basic \
          spectro-registry:latest

9. Expose the container host's port publicly to allow the Palette console to interact with the pack registry. This would be typically done via environment-specific constructs like Security Groups, Firewalls, etc.

10. Verify the installation by invoking the pack registry APIs using the curl command. This should result in a 200 response.

• HTTPS mode

  curl --cacert tls.crt -v [REGISTRY_SERVER]/health
  curl --cacert tls.crt -v -u [USERNAME] [REGISTRY_SERVER]/v1/_catalog

• HTTP mode

  curl -v [REGISTRY_SERVER]/health
  curl -v -u [USERNAME] [REGISTRY_SERVER]/v1/_catalog

Once the deployment of the pack registry server is complete, configure it with the Palette console as follows:

1. As a Tenant Administrator, navigate to Admin Settings > Registries > Pack Registries.

2. Click on Add New Pack Registry and provide the pack registry name, endpoint, and user credentials.

3. Click on Confirm once the details are filled.

Upon successful registration, users can build and deploy custom packs on to the custom pack registry and use these packs in their cluster profiles.

Note:

To know more about the use of Spectro CLI to push packs to a custom registry and sync it to Palette click here..