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Please support new auth format

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Description

Hello guys,

I pull docker images on ECS from my private registry setup with [registry](https://hub.docker.com/_/registry/) 2.6 , and keep encountering `CannotPullContainerError`. Finally I found the problem is still the auth format.

According to this [page](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/private-auth.html), _"The dockercfg format uses the authentication information stored in the configuration file that is created when you run the **docker login** command"_,
However, my installed docker generates the config in the format below:
```
{
"auths": {
"registry.example.com": {
"auth": "ZXhhbXBsZTpleGFtcGxlCg=="
}
}
}
```
rather than something like
```
{
"https://index.docker.io/v1/": {
"auth":"zq212MzEXAMPLE7o6T25Dk0i",
"email":"email@example.com"
}
}
```
in the document.

Currently My workaround is to have a script tranforming ~/.docker/config.json format after executing docker login and it works. The docker versions I've tried are 1.12.5 and some newer versions afterwards installed with instructions [here](https://store.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-server-ubuntu?tab=description), and running latest(1.14.0) ecs agent pulled from amazon/amazon-ecs-agent/ .

Thanks

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Research direction

Start with the ECS agent's private-registry authentication path and compare the ~/.docker/config.json auths format with the legacy dockercfg example in the issue. Reproduce a private registry pull using Docker 1.12.5 or newer and confirm that the new format works without a transformation script and no longer produces CannotPullContainerError.

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Assessment

Tech stack
aws, docker
Domain
cloud, infrastructure
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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