In Direct mode, registry requests are processed directly, without intermediate caching.
CRI requests to the registry are redirected based on its configuration, which is defined in the containerd configuration.
For components such as operator-trivy, image-availability-exporter, deckhouse-controller, and others that access the registry directly, requests will go through the in-cluster proxy located on the master nodes.
For more information about the Direct mode, see the section Using the internal container image registry.