To start the image registry, you must change ManagementState Image Registry Operator configuration from Removed to Managed. Leave the claim field blank to allow the automatic creation of an image-registry-storage PVC.
$ oc edit configs.imageregistry/cluster apiVersion: imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: Config metadata: ... spec: ... managementState: Managed storage: pvc: claim: ...
We want to enable the image pruner, to occationally prune images in the registry.
$ oc edit imagepruner.imageregistry/cluster apiVersion: imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: ImagePruner metadata: name: cluster spec: suspend: false ...
Check the status of the deployment:
oc get clusteroperator image-registry