Zot Registry Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Zot Registry hosting on xCloud lets you deploy Zot Registry, a production-ready, vendor-neutral OCI image registry, as a private place for your Docker and OCI images on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned official image with a persistent image volume, creates the single account with a generated password and publishes it over HTTPS. Nobody can pull, push or browse without those credentials.

Deploy your Zot Registry

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What is Zot Registry?

zot is a production-ready, vendor-neutral OCI image registry, built purely on the OCI Distribution Specification, which stores images in the OCI image format. A self-hosted Zot Registry is a private OCI image registry on your own server, an alternative to Docker Hub for images you do not want public. It is Apache-2.0 licensed. The template adds a web UI and search to browse what you have pushed.

On xCloud it is Zot v2.1.22, the official image pinned by digest, as one container with the zot_data volume holding images. The template creates exactly one account, with a username you choose and a generated password, and refuses anonymous requests. Vulnerability scanning is switched off to save memory. xCloud does not back up or restore images for this app, so you protect the volume yourself.

From Sign-Up to a Live Registry In Just 3 Easy Steps

A private registry normally means a registry process, an authentication file, a volume, a domain and a certificate before the first push. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Zot Registry from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, and optionally change the registry username (the default is admin).
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Zot image, pinned by immutable digest, alongside two small private helper containers with no published ports — one builds the password file, one checks readiness. We mount the zot_data volume for your images, generate a strong password and publish the registry over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Log In And Push An Image
Save the password from the protected installation credentials and open your HTTPS Zot URL. From a Docker client run docker login with your Registry Host, then tag an image as <Registry Host>/<repository>:<tag> and push it.

Everything Zot Registry Does, On Your Own Server

Zot runs in full here: an OCI-native registry with a web UI and search on your own domain, locked behind a password.

Docker And OCI Images
Store and serve Docker and OCI images and artifacts from your own domain, using the standard docker login, docker push and docker pull commands.
Built-In Web UI And Search
Browse repositories and tags, and search the registry, from the web UI served on the same address as the registry API.
Private By Default
Anonymous requests are refused, including pulls. Requests without or with wrong credentials get a 401, and the web UI redirects to the login page.
Garbage Collection And Deduplication
Garbage collection and blob deduplication are enabled, so layers shared between images are not stored twice.
Persistent Image Storage
Images live in the zot_data volume. Pushed images and the account survived an xCloud Restart in QA, with tags intact and re-pull working.
Small Footprint
The registry used about 70 MiB of RAM on QA after a push and pull round-trip, so it fits beside your other apps.

Everything You Need To Run Your Image Registry 24/7

Managed hosting for Zot Registry, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Zot Registry v2.1.22 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Registry password generated for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Persistent zot_data image volume
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Zot Registry

Host private images for your own servers
Push your application images to your own registry and pull them on your servers, so deployments do not depend on a public registry's availability or limits.
Store OCI artifacts as well as images
Keep Docker and OCI images and artifacts in one registry that follows the OCI Distribution Specification, so tools that speak the standard can use it.
Browse images in a web UI
Open the web UI to search repositories and tags after signing in, so you can find what was pushed without remembering exact names.
Keep build output out of public registries
Let CI push internal builds to your own address with one set of credentials, so unreleased code never lands on a public registry.

Zot Registry vs Alternatives

Docker Hub: Docker Hub is a hosted registry. Zot Registry stores images in a volume on your own server, with anonymous pulls refused and one account that you control.
GitHub Container Registry: GitHub Container Registry is a hosted registry tied to GitHub. A self-hosted Zot is a standalone OCI registry, so your images do not depend on a code host account.
Gitea: Gitea has its own OneClick page. It is a Git forge that can also hold packages; Zot is a dedicated OCI registry with its own web UI and search.
Harbor: Harbor is a separate open-source registry project. Zot is an OCI-native registry built on the OCI Distribution Specification; the upstream repository links its own comparison file, which this page does not repeat.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Zot Registry hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Zot Registry sits alongside other build and deploy tools.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Zot is licensed by its maintainers under Apache-2.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Image Registry?

Zot Registry on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How much RAM does Zot Registry need?

The template floor is 512 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 10 GB of disk. Zot is a single Go service, so the 6 GB plan is far above it, and the images you store are what grow the disk.

Can you self-host Zot Registry with Docker?

Yes, and this template is zot registry docker hosting without the setup: the official image pinned by digest, a zot_data volume, one account with a generated password and HTTPS on your own domain, with anonymous access refused.

How do I push images to Zot Registry?

Run docker login with your registry host, the username and the password from your credentials, then tag images as registry-host/repository:tag and push. The template creates exactly one account, which can sign in, pull and push.

Is my Zot Registry private?

Yes. Anonymous requests are refused, so nobody can pull, push or browse without the single account's credentials. Change them in the Environment editor and redeploy, then sign in again from every client. Share the credentials only with people you trust.

Why are large pushes to Zot Registry rejected?

Pushes are accepted up to 10 GB per request here, but a domain proxied through Cloudflare rejects any single request over about 100 MB. Use a DNS-only record for this domain if you push large image layers.

Is Zot Registry an alternative to Docker Hub or Harbor?

For a private registry, yes. Upstream describes a vendor-neutral OCI registry and links a comparison file that this page does not restate. You run the disk, backups and credentials yourself. Test your pull workflow first.

Is Zot Registry free?

Yes. zot is Apache-2.0 licensed, so the registry costs nothing in licence fees. The Cloud VPS is the one bill, giving you a Zot Registry cloud install with no pull limits set by a host.

How do I back up Zot Registry?

xCloud does not back up or restore images for this app, so copy the zot_data volume off the server yourself. Because images are large, schedule copies and test a restore, or rebuild images from source.

Backup and restore Docker apps

How do I upgrade Zot Registry?

Zot stays on its pinned v2.1.22 image until a newer template version is adopted. Copy the volume first and check the release notes. No upgrade runs automatically, and redeploying keeps your stored images in place.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.