Working with the Docker registry

The Docker registry has now been replaced by the Container registry.

Who can use this feature?

GitHub Packages is available with GitHub Free, GitHub Pro, GitHub Free for organizations, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 or higher.

GitHub Packages is not available for private repositories owned by accounts using legacy per-repository plans. Also, accounts using legacy per-repository plans cannot access registries that support granular permissions, because these accounts are billed by repository. Enterprise Managed Users do not have individual storage allocation to publish packages within their account's namespace, but can publish to an organization's namespace. For additional information on Enterprise Managed Users, see About Enterprise Managed Users. For the list of registries that support granular permissions, see About permissions for GitHub Packages. For more information, see GitHub’s plans.

GitHub's Docker registry (which used the namespace docker.pkg.github.com) has been replaced by the Container registry (which uses the namespace https://ghcr.io). The Container registry offers benefits such as granular permissions and storage optimizations for Docker images.

Docker images previously stored in the Docker registry are being automatically migrated into the Container registry. For more information, see Migrating to the Container registry from the Docker registry and Working with the Container registry.