Morning,
I was looking to see if there was a list of good known catalogs for use with rancher? How do i add official repositories that i find on docker hub, including dockers. I have added another catalog entry of Docker with a a URL of https://github.com/docker-library/official-images.git. When i go to Applications - Catalog and select Docker nothing shows up.What am I not doing right?
The repository for a catalog has an special structure. You are trying to add a repository with docker images. That is not a rancher catalog.
The rancher catalog is a repository with catalog entries. They have a docker-compose.yml and a rancher-compose.yml file to define an stack of services that will run on your environment, is not only a single image from docker hub.
I have worked with docker in the past and was able to get images deployed using my docker hub account. Where would i usually find what your speaking of so i can deploy things such as wordpress, mysql postgres, other OS’s such as OEL, CENTOS, SLACK , etc?
There are no known catalogs as you’d need to structure the catalog in a specific format in order for Rancher to interpret and translate it to be available.
Here’s the docs on how to create your own catalog.
http://docs.rancher.com/rancher/configuration/settings/#creating-private-catalogs
You’re confusing two different things… The Docker library is a registry of images, Rancher catalog is a set of compose templates. The templates create containers using images in a registry to do something.
Think of images as Lego blocks. The registry is the bin full of all the blocks that are available. And the Rancher catalog is a set of instruction books that tell you how to combine (usually) several of those blocks into something bigger and more useful.
We have one “official” catalog at https://github.com/rancher/rancher-catalog . Other people making their own are typically doing it privately for their own company/software, because anything that is public we would generally accept as a PR into the official one.