> wondering what my alternate deployment routes are
If the stakes are low and you don't have any specific need for a persistent registry then you could skip it entirely and push images to production from wherever they are built.
This could be as simple as `docker save`/`scp`/`docker load`, or as fancy as running an ephemeral registry to get layer caching like you have with `docker push`/`docker pull`[1].
> wondering what my alternate deployment routes are
If the stakes are low and you don't have any specific need for a persistent registry then you could skip it entirely and push images to production from wherever they are built.
This could be as simple as `docker save`/`scp`/`docker load`, or as fancy as running an ephemeral registry to get layer caching like you have with `docker push`/`docker pull`[1].
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79758446/3625