Unable to Push to Google Container Registry (unable to access the repository)

Question

Whenever I attempt to push a container to the Google Container Registry from my local machine, I get the following error:

denied: Unable to access the repository; please check that you have permission to access it.

If I open the Cloud Shell, I can push containers with no problems. I have tried doing "gcloud auth login" several times and it seems to make no difference. I don't have any problems running other gcloud commands locally. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

FYI for other customers running into similar issues: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/22910

There exists a bug with current versions of the Docker client (1.11, 1.12), and the default credential stores which are being enabled on new installations, which break private registries. Removing the

"credsStore": "whatever"

field from your docker config (e.g. ~/.docker/config.json) and running

gcloud docker ...

should fix the issue.

Update:

Alternately, we've implemented a credential helper of our own which solves the problem for our customers (i.e. doesn't get tripped up by the lack of a scheme in the GCR URLs that the Docker client uses to request credentials). To install the credential helper:

• Download the helper binary and put it on your PATH
  • gcloud components install docker-credential-gcr or
  • download/compile the binary from GitHub
• Execute docker-credential-gcr configure-docker to configure to the Docker client

Answer 2

Have you run gcloud auth login?