I tried deleting images from a private registry post which the blobs and the manifest of the pushed image gets deleted . but it leaves behind an empty repository with the tag of the images which it contained . Steps Followed: docker push hostname.xxx.yyy.com:1111/hello-world-abc  push the image …

Any news on this? We’re having the same issue.

I believe if you run garbage collection, docker exec dockerregistry_registry_1 bin/registry garbage-collect /etc/docker/registry/config.yml the tag will then be removed from the list of available tags and appear like: {"name":"old_repo","tags":null} I am uncertain how to completely remove the “n…

Let me be more clear. I am uncertain how to remove the repository “name” from the registry via the API. You can manually remove the repository from the registry after removing the last manifest by just deleting it on the registry server. sudo rm -rf docker/registry/v2/repositories/old_repo/ It wil…

And what should I do next? I deleted manifests, collected garbage, but repo still exists in the list

Would like to confirm, based on the above replies - the official way to delete the repo from the catalog (AFTER all manifests under it are purged) is to just delete it from disk? In other words, there is no API call or garbage collection to remove the empty repository entry, it must be deleted manu…

Docker - any word on this? Having to garbage collect / manually delete from the volume is pretty clunky.

Similar problem. The names stay with null list of tags. Further, nothing is garbage collected. I know that the same repository:tag is pushed nightly, so there should be lots available to garbage collect. (They do not have a second tag, which would prevent garbage collection.) The size of the regist…

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kkim1975 (Kkim1975) May 8, 2017, 2:29pm 3

Any update on this? We also noticed the same behavior.

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Delete repository from v2 private registry

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