how to migrate Docker Registry from file system to S3 storage?

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I am using the Docker Registry with the filesystem storage driver. What I want to do is to migrate that existing Registry to S3-compatible storage without loosing data.

While I could pull all images on a dedicated client, reconfigure the registry and push again, I would like to find a more direct approach because of the size and amount of already stored Images.

Is there any way to migrate the data from filesystem to S3 without having to re-push the Images?

How to you expect the data to be available from S3 without pushing it there? — gxx, Sep 09 '19 at 23:07

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '19 at 11:56

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After some digging it turned out that a storage driver is just a filesystem abstraction, so all that needed to be done to migrate a Docker Registry from filesystem to S3 is to copy the content of the registry's directory unaltered to S3.

answered Sep 10 '19 at 11:56

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