Overview
Tencent Container Registry (TCR) is a cloud-based container image hosting service provided by Tencent Cloud. It has the following features:
Cloud-native Artifact Hosting: Supports multi-architecture container images (such as Linux, Windows, ARM, etc.) and management of Helm Chart v2/v3, as well as other cloud-native artifacts that comply with OCI specifications.
Multi-dimensional Security: Encrypted storage for image data. Supports image security scanning and high-risk image deployment blocking. Provides network access source control. Offers fine-grained permission management and operation auditing to ensure business data compliance.
High-speed Distribution Across Multiple Regions: Supports on-demand synchronization and rapid replication of images across multiple regions globally and within China, enabling nearby image access. Offers P2P distribution acceleration and on-demand image mounting, significantly reducing image pull time for large-scale clusters and ensuring fast business deployment and updates.
Container DevSecOps: Deeply integrated with CODING DevOps and Tencent Kubernetes Engine (TKE) products, offering delivery pipeline functionality. With simple configuration, code changes can automatically trigger image building, image scanning, and container application updates, enhancing the delivery efficiency of enterprise cloud-native applications and ensuring business security.
By using Tencent Container Registry, you no longer need to build and maintain your own image hosting service. Instead, you can enjoy secure and efficient image hosting and distribution services in the cloud. TCR can be seamlessly integrated with Tencent Kubernetes Engine (TKE) for a smooth container cloud experience.
Product Type
TCR provides the Enterprise Edition and Individual Edition:
Enterprise Edition
Enterprise Edition provides exclusive enterprise-grade image security hosting services for individual and enterprise customers who require cloud-native artifact hosting services in their production businesses. Container Image Service supports all the above features and is continuously updated. Currently, the Enterprise Edition supports both annual/monthly subscription and pay-as-you-go billing options. For specific usage, please refer to: Enterprise Edition Quick Start.
Individual Edition
TCR Individual Edition provides basic cloud-based image hosting and distribution services with limited quotas, designed for personal use or temporary testing by enterprise customers. TCR Individual Edition is a shared cloud service, where all users share the backend and data storage, and image hosting and upload/download are subject to quota restrictions. Tencent Container Registry Individual Edition is free of charge and can be activated directly. For specific usage, please refer to: Individual Edition Quick Start.
Specifications
The specifications for Tencent Container Registry are as follows, where ✔️ indicates support and ❌ indicates no support.
Note
When the instance is using the features of Standard or Advanced edition, it is not allowed to downgrade the instance specifications to editions that do not support the features. If you wish to downgrade the specifications, please delete the related feature configurations manually first.
Category | Feature Breakdown | Item | Individual Edition | Enterprise Edition | Note | ||
| | | | Basic | Standard | Premium Edition | |
Service Guarantee | SLA | SLA | Unavailable | 99.9% (Compensation Supported) | 99.9% (Compensation Supported) | 99.9% (Compensation Supported) | |
Instance Management | Instance Deployment | Dedicated registry service | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Multi-Availability Zone Service Disaster Recovery | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Cross-Region Instance Disaster Recovery (Optional) | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Data Security | Dedicated data storage backend | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Multi-AZ Storage Disaster Recovery (Optional) | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Access Management | Dedicated Access Domain Name | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Custom access domain name | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Image Management | Utilizing Quotas | Namespace Quota | 10 | 50 | 100 | 500 | TCR Individual Edition service does not support quota adjustment; quota adjustment is supported in the Enterprise Edition's Advanced tier. |
| | Image repository quota | Guangzhou: 500, Other: 100 | 1000 | 3000 | 5000 | |
| | Image Tag Quota | 100 | No limit | No limit | No limit | |
| | Helm Repository Quota | ❌ | 1000 | 3000 | 5000 | |
| Item | Hosting OCI Artifacts | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Helm Chart Hosting | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Multi-level repository directory | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Data Security | Image security | Encrypted storage of data | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Image tag immutability | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Image vulnerability scanning | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Image Deployment Blocking | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Image Signature Verification | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | |
| Cloud access management | Public Network Access Control | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Supported VPC access control | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | VPC access quota | - | 5 | 10 | 20 | |
| Permission Management | User-Level Account Management | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Managing Service Accounts | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Operation audit | ❌ | 7 days | 15 days | 30 days | Submit a ticket for inquiry |
Image Distribution | Accelerated distribution | Container Image Caching | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | P2P Accelerated Distribution | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Loading Container Images on Demand | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | |
| Nearby Access | Cross-instance Custom Rule Synchronization | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Cross-Account Instance Image Synchronization | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Nearest Access to Multiple Regions within the Same Instance | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | |
Container DevOps | System integration | Webhook trigger | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Secret-free Pulling for TKE Clusters | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| CI/CD | Container Image Compilation and Build * | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| | Cloud-native delivery workflow | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Note:
Container Image Compilation and Building is based on CODING DevOps service, offering free usage quotas. For advanced features or additional quotas, please visit CODING DevOps Service.
Free Usage of the Individual Edition
The Individual Edition service is provided for individual developers. The free usage quota is limited. SLA commitments and relevant compensation are not provided.