I am looking to a solution to fasten development with docker images and their testing.

Does it exist a solution that would expose all tagged images from a host through a docker registry API ?

This would allow to do:

• docker build
• List item
• docker tags
• NOT populating a registry

and have the docker image already available, and usable in kubernetes for example.

I am surprise this doesn't already exists.

How do people iterate on docker images (fixing config, checking everything deploy correctly, etc ...) ?

I was used to do it locally with docker-compose, but using Kubernetes makes a registry mandatory and seems to complicate things a bit more.