Chapter 1. About Red Hat Quay


Red Hat Quay is a container registry platform for secure storage, distribution, and governance of containers and cloud-native artifacts. You can deploy it as a standalone component or as an Operator on OpenShift Container Platform.

Red Hat Quay includes the following features and benefits:

  • Granular security management
  • Fast and robust at any scale
  • High velocity CI/CD
  • Automated installation and updates
  • Enterprise authentication and team-based access control
  • OpenShift Container Platform integration

Red Hat Quay is regularly released, containing new features, bug fixes, and software updates. You can upgrade Red Hat Quay for both standalone and OpenShift Container Platform deployments.

Important

Red Hat Quay only supports rolling back, or downgrading, to previous z-stream versions, for example, 3.17.2 3.17.1. Rolling back to previous y-stream versions (3.18 3.17) is not supported. This is because Red Hat Quay updates might contain database schema upgrades that are applied when upgrading to a new version of Red Hat Quay. Database schema upgrades are not considered backwards compatible.

Downgrading to previous z-streams is neither recommended nor supported by either Operator based deployments or virtual machine based deployments. Downgrading should only be done in extreme circumstances. The decision to rollback your Red Hat Quay deployment must be made in conjunction with the Red Hat Quay support and development teams. For more information, contact Red Hat Quay support.

Each Red Hat Quay release has matching documentation. Currently, version 3 is the latest major version.

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