I usually prefer to host Quay using the Operator on OpenShift. It's clean, declarative, and integrates perfectly. But sometimes, that OpenShift Cluster is just not available yet, and you need a place to put your images right now . In those situations, you have to improvise and host the initial registry on a standalone virtual machine. Here is how you can spin up a quick, containerized Quay Proof of Concept (PoC) environment using Podman, PostgreSQL, and Redis. First, we need to create some directories that we're going to use for the different backing services that Quay requires. We'll set these up under '/var/podman': [archy@quay ~]$ mkdir -p -m 755 /var/podman/{postgresql,redis,quay} [archy@quay ~]$ mkdir -p -m 755 /var/podman/redis/{config,data} [archy@quay ~]$ mkdir -p -m 755 /var/podman/quay/{config,storage} Next, we need to set some ACLs so that the PostgreSQL and Quay containers can write to their respective storage locations. Without this, you will ru...