A cloud engineer has container images stored on a local filesystem. The developers would like to make the images available for mass deployment in a secure manner. Which of the following technologies b

Encrypted block storage protects data at rest on a disk volume but provides no distribution API or container image layer management mechanism.

CIFS is a generic file-sharing protocol that lacks container image metadata handling, layer deduplication, and the OCI-compliant pull API that registries provide.

A private registry - such as Docker Registry, AWS ECR, or Azure Container Registry - is specifically designed to store container image layers and expose them via a secure API to authorized users or orchestration systems for mass deployment. It provides access control, image versioning, and encrypted transport, directly addressing both the distribution and security requirements.

Source control management systems store text-based source code and version history, not compiled binary container image layers, and are not designed for mass image distribution.