Project Harbor Reached Milestone of 2000 Stars on Github

About a year ago, I gave the first star to an open source project we created. In less than 13 months, the project has reached an exciting milestone of 2000 stars!  This project is called Harbor, an enterprise class registry server.

People from different countries starred Project Harbor on Github

Back in early 2014, when I attended Docker meetups and container conferences, I often heard people complaining about the challenges to manage container images. They usually created all kinds of hacks or workarounds to solve their own problems. When I saw pain points like these, my gut feeling told me that it must be a great opportunity to do something to it.

We then started to work on a side project to help people manage image effectively. This project became the prototype of Harbor. It was used by a few project teams and turned out to be quite helpful. In March 2016, we decided to open source it on Github for larger adoption. Since then, Project Harbor has taken off and been gaining more and more traction. We listened to feedback from the community and kept improving it. Community developers were enthusiastic and they contributed code, tools, documentation and even translation to multiple languages to the project. Two third of the contributors was actually from outside of VMware.

Gradually, Harbor becomes one of the most popular open source registries and has been widely used by people in the container space. VMware has also integrated Harbor into two products: vSphere Integrated Containers and Photon Platform. Many users run Harbor in their production, such as one of the largest internet companies, JD.com in China. Other companies also forked Harbor and used in their own products. Below are some statistics of Project Harbor.

Project Harbor Statistics

The current version of Harbor provides some important features to enterprise users, such as RBAC (Role Based Access Control), LDAP/AD authentication, image remote replication, management portal. In the coming new release, Harbor will be adding new features like Notary and a new admin UI.

One of my favorite features of Harbor: Remote replication (synchronization) of images

While we are celebrating the milestone of Harbor, it certainly serves as a new starting point to us. Thanks everyone who contributed to Harbor’s success. Your continuous support definitely motivates us to make Harbor the best home for your container images!

Survey based on user community, 53 responses

Related Topics:

Architecture of Harbor: An Open Source Enterprise-class Registry Server
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