Manage Vercel Container Registry with Vercel CLI

What shipped? Vercel Container Registry (VCR) now has full CLI management through a new vercel vcr command group.

What changed? Previously, interacting with VCR required the dashboard or separate tooling. The new vercel vcr commands let you:

• Authenticate Docker, Podman, or Buildah with a short-lived token scoped to your project
• Build and push images in one step with vercel vcr build docker --push
• Create and list repositories with vercel vcr add and vercel vcr ls
• Inspect images and tags: vercel vcr image ls, vercel vcr tag inspect
• List untagged images for cleanup: vercel vcr image ls --untagged

Repositories are created automatically on first push, or explicitly with vercel vcr add. Credentials go to Docker itself, so your existing tooling works with standard docker push commands.

Why does a builder care? If you use containers on Vercel, this removes the last friction point — no more switching between dashboard and terminal to manage your registry. The CLI covers the full lifecycle: auth, build, push, inspect, and list.