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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question 38: Artifact Registry Push Image

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer · Test 4 · question 8 of 10

Artifact Registryeasy

You built a container image on your workstation and want to store it in Google Cloud so that GKE and Cloud Run can pull it. You need a managed, private registry that is the current recommended service.

What should you do?

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Answer:

  • A. Create a Docker repository in Artifact Registry, configure Docker authentication, and push the image to it

Artifact Registry is Google Cloud's managed registry for container images and other artifacts. You create a Docker format repository, run gcloud auth configure-docker REGION-docker.pkg.dev, then tag the image with the repository path and docker push it. IAM controls who can pull it.

Option B uses Container Registry, which was shut down in March 2025; gcr.io hostnames now survive only as domains served by Artifact Registry repositories. Option C stores a file that GKE and Cloud Run cannot pull as an image. Option D is not a registry, and Cloud Source Repositories is not meant to hold image layers.

Reference: Store Docker container images in Artifact Registry

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