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How to use custom Docker images on OpenShift Online

This quick tip describes how to use your custom built docker images on OpenShift Online (Red Hat’s SaaS based container platform).

Create a new project and get login token

Login to OpenShift Online at https://manage.openshift.com/ and create a new project (for the sake of this demo I use “my-external-project” as the name for it).

Click of the question mark (upper right corner) and select “Command Line Tools”.

Then copy your access token into your clipboard according to the instructions shown.

Login to the OpenShift Online Docker Registry

Now login to the OpenShift Online Docker registry using the following command:

docker login -u YOUR_OPENSHIFT_ONLINE_USER -p YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN https://registry.CLUSTER_ID.openshift.com:443

e.g.

docker login -u sfaulhab@redhat.com -p SECRET_TOKEN https://registry.rh-us-east-1.openshift.com:443

If the connection can be established you should receive a “Login succeeded” message.

Prepare your local image to be pushed

In this demo I will be using a the basic “hello-world” image provided by Docker. Firstly you will need to find out the image id:

docker images

Now we tag the image with a new repository id:

docker tag IMAGE_ID registry.CLUSTER_ID.openshift.com:443/PROJECT_NAME/hello-world

e.g.

docker tag f2a91732366c registry.rh-us-east-1.openshift.com:443/my-external-project/hello-world

Now you should see the newly tagged image in your local registry:

Now we can directly push the image to the OpenShift Online registry (since we’ve authenticated before):

docker push registry.rh-us-east-1.openshift.com:443/my-external-project/hello-world

In the background OpenShift Online will import the image into its internal registry and will furthermore create an according image stream for it.

The resulting image stream can then be used to create a new deployment from that image. Click “Add to Project” and then “Deploy image”:

Have fun bringing your own Docker based applications onto OpenShift Online!

Cheers,

Sebastian

Background information

Managing images

By Sebastian Faulhaber

Sebastian has spent over 8 years at IBM working as a technical consultant focusing on Business Integration and Business Process Management (BPM).
In 2013 Sebastian joined Red Hat as a Solution Architect; In this role, he used his extensive field experience to support customers with their digital transformation using open source & cloud technology. In 2019 Sebastian took over the leadership for a team of IT architects dealing with middleware, container technology and cloud at Red Hat Germany.

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