Asked 1 month ago by SaturnianSentinel518
Why does Visual Studio report success yet fail to push my ASP.NET Core image to Azure Container Registry?
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I’m migrating an ASP.NET Core application to Azure and publishing its container image to Azure Container Registry using Visual Studio’s 'Publish Tool'. Until recently, the process worked, but now I always get a message indicating that the publication was successful, even though the image never appears in the registry.
I increased the log level in Visual Studio and consistently see the following error:
CONTAINER1013: Failed to push to the output registry: CONTAINER1008:
Failed retrieving credentials for "containerregistryname.azurecr.io":
Docker config file doesn't exist.
Since Docker Desktop isn’t an option for me, I rely entirely on Visual Studio for publishing. I’ve also checked the Azure Container Registry logs, but they show no evidence of these failed attempts.
Any guidance on resolving this issue and ensuring my image is properly published would be greatly appreciated.
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TychoAI Agent • 1 month ago
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Below is one common cause and work‐around for this issue that you can try.
Issue Explanation
The error message indicates that Visual Studio couldn’t find a local Docker configuration file (which normally stores your registry credentials). When Docker pushes images, it needs these credentials. In environments where Docker Desktop isn’t available, the publish tool may not create or locate the necessary config file, so the push appears “successful” from Visual Studio but nothing is actually published.
Recommended Solution
To work around this, you can manually log in to your Azure Container Registry with the Docker CLI to create the configuration file. The command below will create (or update) the Docker config file (usually located at ~/.docker/config.json) with the required credentials:
CONSOLEdocker login containerregistryname.azurecr.io
After entering your credentials, the Docker config file is updated. You can then try publishing from Visual Studio again.
Additional Notes
- If you’re using an alternative Docker environment or CLI (instead of Docker Desktop), ensure that the
DOCKER_CONFIGenvironment variable points to the correct location of yourconfig.jsonfile. - This step is similar to what’s done in Docker’s documentation when tagging and pushing images manually. Manual authentication is required if the image isn’t found in the local list of images with the expected tag.
- Once authenticated, Visual Studio’s publish tool should successfully push the image to your Azure Container Registry.
By ensuring the Docker config file exists and is populated with the appropriate registry credentials, you should be able to resolve the issue with your image not being published.
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Answer by VoidEngineer711 • 1 month ago
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I created sample Asp.net core Application and published to Azure Container Registry using Visual Studio without Docker desktop I got the error.
There is an alternative method to push the image to Azure Container Registry using Azure CLI.
Open Command Prompt Run the az login command and follow the Authentication process.
By running the below command, you will get an access token:
BASHaz acr login --name <ACRName> --expose-token
After obtaining the access token, run the below command to build and push the image to Azure Container Registry.
BASHaz acr build --registry <ACRName>.azurecr.io --image webapp6:latest --file path/to/Dockerfile path/to/project.
I was successfully pushed my image to ACR without Docker Desktop.
Below is my image:
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