I recently switched from using own hosted Docker Registry to the amazon hosted Elastic Container Registry and found that the UI, well, sucks. The results aren’t returned in any kind of sorted order and the UI doesn’t help you do that. In addition, it’s the same issue with the cli tool. I wish they included a timestamp field to know when the layer/image was created but in absence of that, the image tag are the best we have to go with. ...
I have recently been working on fixing some personal pain-points for Docker. It came about because of a course I am taking at UConn this fall on Troubleshooting Distributed Systems - Excellent course by the way. The current issue I’m looking at is the one about logging. Yep, I somehow managed to volunteered to do this in a month with a full-time job and 4 hours a week of driving back and forth from UConn. Anyway, I needed to run a dev version of Docker in my local machine alongside the stable version. I’m on a mac running boot2docker. There are other ways to do this but I find boot2docker sufficient for almost all the work I’d want to do in this case. ...