Configure your Docker Engine

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By default Docker Engine uses TLS when pushing and pulling images to an image registry like Docker Trusted Registry.

If DTR is using the default configurations or was configured to use self-signed certificates, you need to configure your Docker Engine to trust DTR. Otherwise, when you try to log in, push to, or pull images from DTR, you’ll get an error:

docker login dtr.example.org

x509: certificate signed by unknown authority

The first step to make your Docker Engine trust the certificate authority used by DTR is to get the DTR CA certificate. Then you configure your operating system to trust that certificate.

Configure your host

macOS

In your browser navigate to https://<dtr-url>/ca to download the TLS certificate used by DTR. Then add that certificate to macOS Keychain.

After adding the CA certificate to Keychain, restart Docker Desktop for Mac.

Windows

In your browser navigate to https://<dtr-url>/ca to download the TLS certificate used by DTR. Open Windows Explorer, right-click the file you’ve downloaded, and choose Install certificate.

Then, select the following options:

  • Store location: local machine
  • Check place all certificates in the following store
  • Click Browser, and select Trusted Root Certificate Authorities
  • Click Finish

Learn more about managing TLS certificates.

After adding the CA certificate to Windows, restart Docker Desktop for Windows.

Ubuntu/ Debian

# Download the DTR CA certificate
sudo curl -k https://<dtr-domain-name>/ca -o /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/<dtr-domain-name>.crt
# Refresh the list of certificates to trust
sudo update-ca-certificates
# Restart the Docker daemon
sudo service docker restart

RHEL/ CentOS

# Download the DTR CA certificate
sudo curl -k https://<dtr-domain-name>/ca -o /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/<dtr-domain-name>.crt
# Refresh the list of certificates to trust
sudo update-ca-trust
# Restart the Docker daemon
sudo /bin/systemctl restart docker.service

Boot2Docker

  1. Log into the virtual machine with ssh:

    docker-machine ssh <machine-name>

  2. Create the bootsync.sh file, and make it executable:

    sudo touch /var/lib/boot2docker/bootsync.sh
sudo chmod 755 /var/lib/boot2docker/bootsync.sh

  3. Add the following content to the bootsync.sh file. You can use nano or vi for this.

    #!/bin/sh

cat /var/lib/boot2docker/server.pem >> /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

  4. Add the DTR CA certificate to the server.pem file:

    curl -k https://<dtr-domain-name>/ca | sudo tee -a /var/lib/boot2docker/server.pem

  5. Run bootsync.sh and restart the Docker daemon:

    sudo /var/lib/boot2docker/bootsync.sh
sudo /etc/init.d/docker restart

Log into DTR

To validate that your Docker daemon trusts DTR, try authenticating against DTR.

docker login dtr.example.org

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