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How to push Docker image to AWS ECR

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To push a Docker image to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), you will need to first create an ECR repository. Then, you will need to authenticate your Docker command-line interface (CLI) to your ECR registry. Finally, you can use the docker push command to push your image to your ECR repository. Here are the steps in detail:

  1. Create an ECR repository.

To create an ECR repository, you can use the AWS Management Console, the AWS CLI, or the AWS SDKs. Here is an example of how to create a repository using the AWS CLI:

aws ecr create-repository --repository-name my-repository

To push a Docker image to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), you will need to first create an ECR repository. Then, you will need to authenticate your Docker command-line interface (CLI) to your ECR registry. Finally, you can use the docker push command to push your image to your ECR repository. Here are the steps in detail:

This will create a new ECR repository called "my-repository".

  1. Authenticate the Docker CLI to your ECR registry.

To authenticate the Docker CLI to your ECR registry, you will need to use the aws ecr get-login-password command to get a password that you can use to log in to your ECR registry. Then, you can use the docker login command to log in to your ECR registry. Here is an example:

# Get a password to use to log in to your ECR registry
aws ecr get-login-password --region region-name | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin account-id.dkr.ecr.region-name.amazonaws.com

Replace region-name with the name of the region where your ECR repository is located, and account-id with your AWS account ID.

  1. Push the Docker image to your ECR repository.

Once you have authenticated the Docker CLI to your ECR registry, you can use the docker push command to push your Docker image to your ECR repository. Here is an example:

# Tag the image with the name of your ECR repository
docker tag my-image:latest account-id.dkr.ecr.region-name.amazonaws.com/my-repository:latest

# Push the image to your ECR repository
docker push account-id.dkr.ecr.region-name.amazonaws.com/my-repository:latest

Replace my-image with the name of your Docker image, region-name with the name of the region where your ECR repository is located, account-id with your AWS account ID, and my-repository with the name of your ECR repository.

That's it! After following these steps, your Docker image should be pushed to your ECR repository and ready to use.

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