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description: "Store private container images in the Verda Container Registry, co-located with your GPU compute for fast pulls into containers and serverless batch jobs."
revision_date: 04.08.2026
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# Container registry

Container Registry is a secure, private repository for your container images. It provides a central location to manage the software building blocks used across your project.

**Getting Started**

All registries are private by default. To begin pushing or pulling images, you must first establish authentication between your local environment and the registry.

Image URLs follow this format:

`vccr.io/<PROJECT_ID>/<IMAGE_NAME>:<TAG>`

[Quickstart](https://docs.verda.com/storage/container-registry/quickstart/)

**Image Protection & Lifecycle**

Manage the stability and footprint of your repositories through automated policies:

[Tag immutability rules](https://docs.verda.com/storage/container-registry/tag-immutability-rules/)

[Tag retention rules & retention runs](https://docs.verda.com/storage/container-registry/tag-retention-rules-and-retention-runs/)

[Tag rules syntax](https://docs.verda.com/storage/container-registry/tag-rules-syntax/)

**Optimized Integration**

Deploying images within the Verda ecosystem provides significant performance and security advantages for Serverless Containers and Batch Job deployments.