Found this inspiring blog post about how to use your own domain for Docker images. (via HN)

It explains how to use your own domain with redirects such that the Docker registry hosting the images can be changed easily. Your domain is only used for issueing HTTP redirects, so that the actual data storage and transfer happens directly with the Docker registry.

The blog post comes with a sample implementation for Caddy. As my server is running nginx, I used the following config snippet to achieve the same result:

server {
	listen 443 ssl;
	listen [::]:443 ssl;

	server_name	docker.x-way.org;

	access_log	/var/log/nginx/docker.x-way.org.access.log;
	error_log	/var/log/nginx/docker.x-way.org.error.log;

	ssl_certificate		/etc/letsencrypt/live/docker.x-way.org/fullchain.pem;
	ssl_certificate_key	/etc/letsencrypt/live/docker.x-way.org/privkey.pem;

	location / {
		return 403;
	}

	location = /v2 {
		add_header Cache-Control 'max-age=300, must-revalidate';
		return 307 https://registry.hub.docker.com$request_uri;
	}
	location = /v2/ {
		add_header Cache-Control 'max-age=300, must-revalidate';
		return 307 https://registry.hub.docker.com$request_uri;
	}
	location = /v2/xway {
		add_header Cache-Control 'max-age=300, must-revalidate';
		return 307 https://registry.hub.docker.com$request_uri;
	}
	location /v2/xway/ {
		add_header Cache-Control 'max-age=300, must-revalidate';
		return 307 https://registry.hub.docker.com$request_uri;
	}
}

Quickly tested it with some docker pull commands and already integrated it into the build process of dnsupd.

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