It was surprising to me you can only have one registry per-account ( https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/container-registry/details/limits/ ). This is especially true when they are zoned in one region. For reliability, I'd like to create one in each region I run k8s clusters in. I would also like to separate permissions for say prod vs staging, by having different repositories. One related feature, which could be a solution to part of the problem - is multi-homing registries - so even one can survive clusters going down.