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Here are the steps I took to move my images from DockerHub to Quay. If you’re not interested in my thoughts or background, or know what you’re doing, scroll down to “Moving the Images”. Background I host several repositories at DockerHub, both for work and personally. When DockerHub announced they would be deleting container images not used within 6 months, I understood. They provide a great service to the community, and frankly I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner. Docker Inc., and it’s (new-ish) owner Mirantis, don’t have the cash to burn like the Google and Amazon do. Still though, it’s a bit sad, and can be frusterating. I believe DockerHub suffers from the same issue that GitHub / Git does. For people not in-the-know, they are synonyms. This is perpetuated by the fact that the default docker registry for everyone using the Docker container implementation, is docker.io. ...

So, you want to use LetsEncrypt to generate a free SSL certificate for your site behind Cloudflare and Apache (acting as a ReverseProxy). After many hours of research and tweaking, I got this setup to work. Here I will document my process for you to use. In the end, your setup will look something like this: User <-(SSL)-> Cloudflare <-(SSL)-> Apache <–> Your Webapp (not SSL). This guide assumes you have a site already setup without SSL. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 for my setup, but the process should be similar for other OSes. ...