How to use a local registry for minikube clusters

Using local registry is useful for demos when network is unreliable, for
example in a conference. It can also be used to avoid random failures
when the network is flaky, by caching remove images locally.

Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <[email protected]>

test/registry/README.md

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+# Using local registry for minikube clusters
+
+## Initial setup
+
+1. Install podman
+
+   ```
+   sudo dnf install podman
+   ```
+
+1. Run the registry container
+
+   ```
+   podman run --name registry --publish 5000:5000 --detach --replace docker.io/library/registry:latest
+   ```
+
+   Use `--replace` to replace an existing container, typically left
+   after reboot the host.
+
+1. Allow access to port 5000 in the libvirt zone
+
+   ```
+   sudo firewall-cmd --zone=libvirt --add-port=5000/tcp --permanent
+   sudo firewall-cmd --reload
+   ```
+
+1. Configure podman to allow insecure access
+
+   ```
+   sudo cp host.minikube.internal.conf /etc/containers/registries.conf.d/
+   ```
+
+1. Testing the registry
+
+   ```
+   $ curl host.minikube.internal:5000/v2/_catalog
+   {}
+   ```
+
+## Pushing to the local registry
+
+1. Pull the image from a remote registry
+
+   ```
+   podman pull quay.io/nirsof/cirros:0.6.2-1
+   ```
+
+1. Push to the local registry
+
+   ```
+   podman push quay.io/nirsof/cirros:0.6.2-1 host.minikube.internal:5000/nirsof/cirros:0.6.2-1
+   ```
+
+## Using images from the local registry
+
+Example source.yaml:
+
+```
+---
+apiVersion: cdi.kubevirt.io/v1beta1
+kind: VolumeImportSource
+metadata:
+  name: cirros-source
+spec:
+  source:
+    registry:
+      url: "docker://host.minikube.internal:5000/nirsof/cirros:0.6.2-1"
+```

test/registry/host.minikube.internal.conf

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+# Local registry for serving minikube clusters
+[[registry]]
+location = 'host.minikube.internal:5000'
+insecure = true