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# Registry in Container Registry

A _registry_ is a storage for Docker images.

With a registry, you can differentiate access rights to Docker images by using [Yandex Identity and Access Management](../../iam/index.md) roles.

## Use cases {#examples}

* [Running a Docker image on a VM](../tutorials/run-docker-on-vm/index.md)