Harbor vs AWS Copilot: What are the differences?

Developers describe Harbor as "Manage and serve container images in a secure environment (created at VMware)". Harbor is an open source cloud native registry that stores, signs, and scans container images for vulnerabilities Harbor solves common challenges by delivering trust, compliance, performance, and interoperability. It fills a gap for organ. On the other hand, AWS Copilot is detailed as "A tool for developers to build, release and operate production ready containerized applications". It is a tool for developers to develop, release, and operate production-ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS. From getting started, pushing to staging and releasing to production, Copilot can help manage the entire lifecycle of your application development.

Harbor and AWS Copilot are primarily classified as "Docker Registry" and "Container" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Harbor are:

• Multi-tenant content signing and validation
• Image replication between instances
• Extensible API and graphical UI

On the other hand, AWS Copilot provides the following key features:

• Organize all your related micro-services in one application
• Set up test and production environments, across regions and accounts
• Set up production-ready, scalable ECS services and infrastructure

Harbor is an open source tool with 12.4K GitHub stars and 3.3K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Harbor's open source repository on GitHub.