Document serving tag resolution

docs/serving/tag-resolution.md

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+---
+title: "Enabling tag to digest resolution"
+linkTitle: "Tag resolution"
+weight: 75
+type: "docs"
+---
+
+Knative serving resolves image tags to a digest when you create a revision. This
+gives knative revisions some very nice properties, e.g. your deployments will be
+consistent, you don't have to worry about "immutable tags", etc. For more info,
+see [Why we resolve tags in Knative](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gjcVniYD95H1DmGM_n7dYJ69vD9d6KgJiA-D9dydWGU/edit?usp=sharing)
+(join [`knative-users@googlegroups.com`](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/knative-users)
+for access).
+
+Unfortunately, this means that the knative serving controller needs to be
+configured to access your container registry.
+
+## Custom Certificates
+
+If you're using a registry that has a self-signed certificate, you'll need to
+convince the serving controller to trust that certificate.
+We respect the [`SSL_CERT_FILE` and `SSL_CERT_DIR`](https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/x509/#pkg-overview)
+environment variables, so you can trust them by mounting the certificates into
+the controller's deployment and setting the environment variable appropriatel,
+assuming you have a `custom-certs` secret containing your CA certs:
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: controller
+  namespace: knative-serving
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: controller
+        volumeMounts:
+        - name: custom-certs
+          mountPath: /path/to/custom/certs
+        env:
+        - name: SSL_CERT_DIR
+          value: /path/to/custom/certs
+      volumes:
+        - name: custom-certs
+          secret: custom-certs
+```
+
+## Corporate Proxy
+
+If you're behind a corporate proxy, you'll need to proxy the tag resolution
+requests between the controller and your registry.
+We respect the [`HTTP_PROXY` and `HTTPS_PROXY`](https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#ProxyFromEnvironment)
+environment variables, so you can configure the controller's deployment via:
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: controller
+  namespace: knative-serving
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: controller
+        env:
+        - name: HTTP_PROXY
+          value: http://proxy.example.com
+        - name: HTTPS_PROXY
+          value: https://proxy.example.com
+```
+
+## Skipping tag resolution
+
+If this all seems like too much trouble, you can configure serving to skip
+tag resolution via the `registriesSkippingTagResolving` configmap field:
+
+```
+kubectl -n knative-serving edit configmap config-deployment
+```
+
+E.g., to disable tag resolution for `registry.example.com`:
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: config-deployment
+  namespace: knative-serving
+
+data:
+  # List of repositories for which tag to digest resolving should be skipped
+  registriesSkippingTagResolving: registry.example.com
+```