diff --git a/app/models/manageiq/providers/kubernetes/container_manager/refresh_parser.rb b/app/models/manageiq/providers/kubernetes/container_manager/refresh_parser.rb
index 062d0d67280..46be38ca2ae 100644
--- a/app/models/manageiq/providers/kubernetes/container_manager/refresh_parser.rb
+++ b/app/models/manageiq/providers/kubernetes/container_manager/refresh_parser.rb
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ def ems_inv_to_hashes(inventory)
       get_endpoints(inventory)
       get_services(inventory)
       get_component_statuses(inventory)
-      get_registries
       get_images
       EmsRefresh.log_inv_debug_trace(@data, "data:")
       @data
@@ -37,11 +36,6 @@ def get_images
       process_collection(images, :container_images) { |n| n }
     end
 
-    def get_registries
-      registries = @data_index.fetch_path(:container_image_registry, :by_host_and_port).try(:values) || []
-      process_collection(registries, :container_image_registries) { |n| n }
-    end
-
     def get_nodes(inventory)
       process_collection(inventory["node"], :container_nodes) { |n| parse_node(n) }
       @data[:container_nodes].each do |cn|
@@ -692,6 +686,7 @@ def parse_container_image(image, imageID)
         if stored_container_image_registry.nil?
           @data_index.store_path(
             :container_image_registry, :by_host_and_port, host_port, container_image_registry)
+          process_collection_item(container_image_registry, :container_image_registries) { |r| r }
           stored_container_image_registry = container_image_registry
         end
       end
diff --git a/spec/models/manageiq/providers/openshift/container_manager/refresh_parser_spec.rb b/spec/models/manageiq/providers/openshift/container_manager/refresh_parser_spec.rb
index 1a90c0c0f25..8e19f1d7afd 100644
--- a/spec/models/manageiq/providers/openshift/container_manager/refresh_parser_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/manageiq/providers/openshift/container_manager/refresh_parser_spec.rb
@@ -166,6 +166,35 @@
         parser.instance_variable_get('@data_index')[:container_image][:by_ref_and_registry_host_port].values[0])
       expect(parser.instance_variable_get('@data')[:container_images][0][:architecture]).to eq('amd64')
     end
+
+    context "image registries from openshift images" do
+      def parse_single_openshift_image_with_registry
+        inventory = {"image" => [image_from_openshift]}
+
+        parser.get_openshift_images(inventory)
+        expect(parser.instance_variable_get('@data_index')[:container_image_registry][:by_host_and_port].size).to eq(1)
+        expect(parser.instance_variable_get('@data')[:container_image_registries].size).to eq(1)
+      end
+
+      it "collects image registries from openshift images that are not also running pods images" do
+        parse_single_openshift_image_with_registry
+      end
+
+      it "avoids duplicate image registries from both running pods and openshift images" do
+        parser.instance_variable_get('@data')[:container_image_registries] = [{
+          :name => image_registry,
+          :host => image_registry,
+          :port => image_registry_port,
+        },]
+        parser.instance_variable_get('@data_index').store_path(
+          :container_image_registry,
+          :by_host_and_port,
+          "#{image_registry}:#{image_registry_port}",
+          parser.instance_variable_get('@data')[:container_image_registries][0]
+        )
+        parse_single_openshift_image_with_registry
+      end
+    end
   end
 
   describe "parse_build" do