Google Artifact Registry is replacing Container Registry

kevin@elyclover.com (Kevin Holmes) — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 10:00:00 +0000

You may have seen the warnings in your Google Console recently: the Google Container Registry (GCR) product will be deprecated in May of 2023 in favor of Google Artifact Registry (GAR.)

Whenever I see these kinds of warnings as an engineer on a DevOps, Infrastructure, or Platform team (how many ways can we be classified?!), my heart tends to drop into my stomach a bit because it means a vendor has tossed another bundle of work onto what’s likely an already overloaded plate. Since we’re all trying to think more positively these days (I hope), let’s discuss why this can be a Good Thing (tm) for all of us, especially when considering DevSecOps and Cybersecurity principles within a Google Cloud environment.

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Google Artifact Registry is replacing Container Registry