Platform & DevOps·Packaging: containers and images
the deploy failed at three in the morning because the place you pull images from was rate-limiting you, and it is not your infrastructure.
Container registry
Also calledimage registry, artefact repository
The service that stores and serves images, addressed by repository, tag and digest. It is a hard dependency of every scale-up and every node replacement, which makes a public registry a single point of failure that your architecture diagram does not show. Teams reach for a pull-through cache or an internal mirror the first time a rate limit or an outage takes production capacity with it.