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We are losing gcr.io/istio-release at the end of 2026. This is a blog/PSA that this is happening, and how to migrate to registry.istio.io.

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Couple other minor nits. Will need approval from @istio/steering-committee as well.

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## Migrating today

Although we do not plan on retiring `gcr.io/istio-release` until January 1st, 2027, **you can migrate container registries today** by moving to the `registry.istio.io` registry.
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@Stevenjin8 just curious, do we know when registry.istio.io is expected to be operational?

$: docker pull registry.istio.io/release/pilot:1.28.0
Error response from daemon: Get "https://registry.istio.io/v2/": dial tcp: lookup registry.istio.io: no such host

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its good now

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we are still on the free plan, working with cncf to get this on the paid plan. Otherwise we only have 100k requests a day.

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LGTM once the reg is ready

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Stevenjin8 commented Mar 20, 2026

not publishign until we change out cloudflare plan to the paid one

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Although we plan to keep images available on `gcr.io/istio-release` until late 2026,
we have set up `registry.istio.io` as the new home for Istio images.
`registry.istio.io` works today, but **it is not ready for production use**.
We expect it to be ready by May 2026, and we will update this post when it is production ready.
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Surely it'll be ready in April right?

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yeah maybe I'm being overly conservative.

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Dimissing Daniel's review since his requested change was made and we want to get this posted for KubeCon

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In response to a cherrypick label: new pull request created: #17250

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