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+Some private docker registries (the most prominent probably being AWS ECR) use non-standard ways of authentication.
+To be able to use this together with watchtower, we need to use a credential helper.
+
+To keep the image size small we've decided to not include any helpers in the watchtower image, instead we'll put the
+helper in a separate container and mount it using volumes.
+
+### Example
+Example implementation for use with [amazon-ecr-credential-helper](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-ecr-credential-helper):
+
+```Dockerfile
+FROM golang:latest
+
+ENV CGO_ENABLED 0
+ENV REPO github.com/awslabs/amazon-ecr-credential-helper/ecr-login/cli/docker-credential-ecr-login
+
+RUN go get -u $REPO
+
+RUN rm /go/bin/docker-credential-ecr-login
+
+RUN go build \
+  -o /go/bin/docker-credential-ecr-login \
+  /go/src/$REPO
+
+WORKDIR /go/bin/
+```
+
+and the docker-compose definition:
+```yaml
+version: "3"
+
+services:
+  watchtower:
+    image: index.docker.io/containrrr/watchtower:latest
+    volumes:
+      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
+      - <PATH_TO_HOME_DIR>/.docker/config.json:/config.json
+      - helper:/go/bin
+    environment:
+      - HOME=/
+      - PATH=$PATH:/go/bin
+      - AWS_REGION=<AWS_REGION>
+      - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<AWS_ACCESS_KEY>
+      - AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>
+volumes:
+  helper: {}
+```
+
+and for `.docker/config.yml`:
+```yaml
+  {
+    "HttpHeaders" : {
+      "User-Agent" : "Docker-Client/19.03.1 (XXXXXX)"
+    },
+    "credsStore" : "osxkeychain", // ...or your prefered helper
+    "auths" : {
+      "xyzxyzxyz.dkr.ecr.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com" : {},
+      "https://index.docker.io/v1/": {}
+    },
+    "credHelpers": {
+      "xyzxyzxyz.dkr.ecr.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com" : "ecr-login",
+      "index.docker.io": "osxkeychain" // ...or your prefered helper 
+    }
+  }
+```
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