From GitHub Issue: " https://docs.openshift.org/latest/install_config/install/docker_registry.html#exposing-the-registry In the first sentence of this section, it is stated, that one needs to have a deployed router. Step 3 of the instruction then again is the link to "how to deploy a router" One of the two is obsolete, as having both in the instructions is confusing for novice user/reader. "