The Best Container Registries in 2026

Author: Angelo Saraceno There’s a moment in every infra postmortem where someone says “wait, where is the image actually stored?” and the room gets quiet. The registry is the part of the deploy pipeline most teams pick once, on day one, and never revisit. Then five years in, it’s wedged under the floorboards holding up everything: every deploy, every rollback, every emergency hotfix at 3am pulls from it. Change it and you have to update every CI job, every Kubernetes manifest, every Helm chart.