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// * openshift_images/images-understand.adoc

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[id="images-image-registry-about_{context}"]
= Image registry

[role="_abstract"]
An image registry is a content server that stores and serves container images in {product-title}. You can use registries to access container images from external sources or the integrated registry in {product-title}.

Registries contain a collection of one or more image repositories, which contain one or more tagged images. Red{nbsp}Hat provides a registry at registry.redhat.io for subscribers. {product-title} can also supply its own {product-registry} for managing custom container images.
