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Google Cloud Platform provides Container Registry, a fully-managed solution for storing and managing Docker container images. This service ensures secure and scalable storage, seamlessly integrating with Google Kubernetes Engine and other tools. New customers receive $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads, allowing them to explore the benefits of using Container Registry for managing their container images and deploying applications in a secure environment. The platform offers fine-grained access control, ensuring that only authorized users can push, pull, or delete images, which enhances the security of containerized applications. Container Registry also supports vulnerability scanning, helping businesses identify potential security risks in their container images. This service allows companies to streamline the management of their containerized applications while maintaining robust security.

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform. With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects in code among distributed teams via asynchronous review and commenting. Automate, track and report code reviews.

8gears Container Registry is a Harbor-based container registry as a service offered and operated by the project's maintainer and contributors. For organizations, and software vendors looking for ways to distribute software as container images.

Store and distribute container images in a fully managed private registry. Push private images to conveniently run them in the IBM Cloud® Kubernetes Service and other runtime environments. Images are checked for security issues so you can make informed decisions about your deployments. Install the IBM Cloud Container Registry CLI to use the command line to manage your name spaces and Docker images in the IBM Cloud® private registry. View information about potential vulnerabilities and the security of images in the IBM Cloud Container Registry public and private repositories with the IBM Cloud console. Check the security status of container images that are provided by IBM, third parties or that are added to your organization's registry namespace. Advanced capabilities for security compliance insight. Access controls and image signing capabilities. Pre-integration with Kubernetes Service.

Red Hat® Quay container image registry provides storage and enables you to build, distribute, and deploy containers. Gain more security over your image repositories with automation, authentication, and authorization systems. Quay is available with OpenShift or as a standalone component. Control access of the registry with multiple identity and authentication providers (including support for teams and organization mapping). Use a fine-grained permissions system to map to your organizational structure. Transport layer security encryption helps you transit between Quay.io and your servers automatically. Integrate with vulnerability detectors (like Clair) to automatically scan your container images. Notifications alert you to known vulnerabilities. Streamline your continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline with build triggers, git hooks, and robot accounts. Audit your CI pipeline by tracking API and UI actions.