olareg
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The facts
Each one read from olareg's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access control
- Authentication configuration supports users, groups, and repository ACLs with read, write, and delete access options.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Artifact signatures
- The installation guide says binaries and container images are signed with cosign and provides verification commands.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- The documentation describes basic authentication and opaque token authentication; opaque tokens expire after five minutes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Container setup
- The installation guide provides Docker commands for persistent storage and for an ephemeral in-memory registry.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Dependencies
- The project avoids external dependencies and is designed for embedding in unit tests or deployment in an edge environment as a cache.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- olareg can be deployed as a container image, a standalone binary, or used as a Go package.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Limits
- Opaque authentication tokens expire after five minutes and require clients to reauthenticate periodically.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Password handling
- The auth guide says user passwords are stored as bcrypt hashes generated with a salt.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- olareg is a minimal OCI conformant container registry designed around the OCI Layout structure for storing images in a directory.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- olareg is a minimal OCI conformant container registry designed around the OCI Layout structure for storing images in a directory.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Release artifacts
- The GitHub releases page lists Darwin amd64 and arm64 binaries and says the v0.2.2 release added linux/riscv64 artifacts.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- The documentation advises configuring authentication on publicly facing installs that are not read-only.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Security guidance
- The installation guide recommends configuring authentication for publicly facing installs that are not read-only.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Signing
- The project says its binaries and images are signed with cosign and provides instructions for verifying signatures.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Storage
- It supports directory storage and ephemeral in-memory storage.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Storage portability
- The GitHub project page says OCI Layout storage makes content portable and easy to preload.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Target use
- The project describes use in unit tests and deployment in an edge environment as a cache.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Testing
- The project is designed to be embedded in Go unit tests as a simple registry for testing tools that work with container registries.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Testing use
- The installation guide describes using olareg with an httptest-based server in Go unit tests.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- The opened olareg pages identify the project and its documentation but do not state a maker organization, headquarters, or founding date.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- The installation guide gives a linux/amd64 binary download example and mentions removing macOS quarantine on downloaded binaries.checked 11 Oct 2026
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