Container Registry Limits
Validated on 10 Jun 2026 • Last edited on 11 Jun 2025
The DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR) is a private Docker image registry that lets you store and manage private container images. DOCR integrates natively with Docker environments and DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters.
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Each DigitalOcean account can only create one registry, although a registry may contain multiple repositories.
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Registry names must be globally unique and not collide with the registry names of other users.
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The Starter and Basic subscription plans are limited to one container registry. The Professional subscription plan is limited to 10 container registries.
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When subscribed to the Professional plan, the command line tool,
doctl, does not support creating additional registries. To create additional registries, use the control panel or the API. This feature is in public preview. -
Untagged images are not displayed in the control panel. However, you can delete untagged manifests using doctl and free up space in your registry.
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Manifest lists (for example, multi-arch images) are supported but may not display correctly in the control panel.
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You cannot change the datacenter region of a registry after creation.
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The name of a registry must:
- Be unique across all DigitalOcean container registries.
- Be no more than 63 characters in length.
- Contain only lowercase letters, numbers, and/or hyphens.
- Begin with a letter.
- End with a letter or number.
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You cannot upload images over 5 GB to a container registry with the Basic subscription plan. With the Professional subscription plan, you can upload images up to 10 GB.