1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processing device of a container registry, an indication of a selection of a container from a plurality of containers provided by the container registry, the container to deploy on a computer system in a hosted environment, the hosted environment comprising software and hardware facilities to execute the plurality of containers in a cloud computing environment, wherein the container is stored in a first repository; issuing, by the processing device, a command to create a second repository comprising a copy of the first repository; and in response to the command: creating, by the processing device, the second repository; and sending, by the processing device, the second repository to deploy in the hosted environment, wherein the command to cause subsequent changes to the container to be made to the second repository during the deployment in the hosted environment.