Announcing the Public Preview of Caching for Azure Container Registry – Unlock Faster Deployments Now!
Caching for ACR: What is it and How Does it Benefit You?
What is Caching for ACR?
Caching for Azure Container Registry (ACR) is a new feature that allows users to push and pull images from ACR faster, resulting in a more efficient CI/CD workflow. This feature utilizes caching technology to reduce the time it takes to download images from ACR, resulting in quicker deployments and improved scalability. Caching for ACR is currently in public preview.
How Does Caching for ACR Work?
When a user pushes an image to ACR, the image is cached on the local machine. When another user requests the same image, it is served from the local cache instead of downloading the image from ACR. This saves time and reduces network traffic.
Benefits of Caching for ACR
Caching for ACR provides several benefits to users, including:
* Faster deployments: By caching images locally, users can download images quicker and reduce the time it takes to deploy applications.
* Reduced network traffic: With caching, users don’t have to download images from ACR over the network. This reduces the amount of traffic on the network, resulting in improved scalability.
* Improved security: Caching images locally reduces the risk of security breaches, as the images are only stored on the local machine.
How to Enable Caching for ACR
Caching for ACR is easy to enable and requires minimal configuration. Simply follow the steps below:
* Create an ACR instance and push an image to it.
* Install the ACR caching agent on the local machine.
* Configure the agent to connect to the ACR instance.
* Pull the image from ACR and the agent will cache it locally.
Conclusion
Caching for ACR is an efficient and secure way to speed up CI/CD workflows. It is easy to configure and can reduce network traffic, resulting in improved scalability. If you are looking for an efficient way to speed up your deployments, then Caching for ACR is a great solution.
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Announcing Public Preview of Caching for ACR
1. ACR caching
2. ACR cache preview
3. Announcing AC