Until today, I’d not accessed a Google Container Registry repo from a non-GKE Kubernetes deployment. It turns out that it’s pretty well-documented (link) but, here’s an end-end example. Assuming: BILLING=[[YOUR-BILLING]] PROJECT=[[YOUR-PROJECT]] SERVER="us.gcr.io" If not already: gcloud projects create {$PROJECT} gcloud beta billing projects link ${PROJECT} \ --billing-account=${BILLING} gcloud services enable containerregistry.googleapis.com \ --project=${PROJECT} Container Registry IMAGE="busybox" # Or ... docker pull ${IMAGE} docker tag \ ${IMAGE} \ ${SERVER}/${PROJECT}/${IMAGE} docker push ${SERVER}/${PROJECT}/${IMAGE} gcloud container images list-tags ${SERVER}/${PROJECT}/${IMAGE} Service Account Create a service account that’s permitted to download (read-only) images from this project’s registry