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ACR overview and features

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ACR overview and features

- [Instructor] Azure Container Registry is a service for storing and distributing and managing container images. Azure Container Registry is based on the open source Docker registry. You have unknowingly already used Docker registry in the form of Docker hub. Docker hub is a public container registry as a service while Azure Container Registry is a private managed service provided by Microsoft providing similar functionality. You can think of the container registry as version control for container images. A developer pushes container images to container registry and an administrator pulls those images from the registry. The container registry takes care of versioning of the images and helps manage the versions with tags. Container registry is a fundamental building block for enabling distribution of container images. Rather than uploading container images to servers directly from a development environment, we often…

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