local docker registry without tagging for push/pull

Question

according to docs for pulling from and pushing to a local registry, you have to tag an image like this :

docker image tag rhel-httpd:latest registry-host:5000/myadmin/rhel-httpd:latest
docker image push registry-host:5000/myadmin/rhel-httpd:latest

right now I have a lot of deployments and helm charts in my on-prem k8s cluster and it's not really convenient to rename all the reference images every time our registry address changes. is there any way to change the default registry without tagging the images?

i'm using registry:2 image to run a local docker registry with docker compose like this:

version: "3"
services:
  registry:
      image: registry:2
      ports:
        - 5000:5000
      environment:
        - REGISTRY_STORAGE_FILESYSTEM_ROOTDIRECTORY: /data
      restart: unless-stopped
      volumes:
        - ./data:/data

Answer 1

so as David Maze suggested and as it's been discussed in this answer and this issue it's best that we don't change the default registry. I ended up using a parameter inside my helm chart's values.yaml file. just an example of how it could be done :

#values.yaml
docker_registry: my.local.registry/
image_name: my_image_name

and then in any template that's addressing the image use {{ .Values.docker_registry}}{{ .Values.image_name}} instead of {{ .Values.image_name}}

we can also use the default registry by setting docker_registry : docker.io/