SOLVED: Add persistency to integrated OpenShift Origin container registry

While integrated container registry is very useful in some scenarios , i.e. you can push docker images there from your local docker/composer builds, but when cluster restarts all images are gone

Of course you can setup separate registry , but for small/local setups it's not so useful. More simple solution (though not scalable) just allow registry to keep images in filesystem on restart.

Making this is relatively simple.

1. Allow registry to use host/node file system 
   
   oc login -u system:admin
   oc adm policy add-scc-to-user hostaccess -z registry -n default
    
2. replace 'emptyDir' with 'hostPath' volume 
   
   oc edit dc/docker-registry -n default
   
   And change
   
         volumes:
         - emptyDir: {}
           name: registry-storage
   to
   
         volumes:
         - hostPath:
             path: /some/path/on/node
           name: registry-storage
   
    
3. Ensure that path is writeable by group (root) - 775
4. Re-deploy registry
   
   oc deploy docker-registry --latest --follow=true -n default