[tigeba]

You can:

export DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=1

to avoid having to use --tls everywhere, makes it a little less tedious. I have also found that not all tools are quite ready, or at least grumpy with TLS. I have had no luck using fig, for example.

[abalkan_msft]

Yep, aware. For the sake of consistency with the "how to run docker on azure" tutorial we linked from this tutorial, we sustained the --tls parameter. I'm not big fan of TLS at all :) For me even basic auth does the job: https://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/docker-http-basic-auth/ :)