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Gandalf vs Harbor: What are the differences?
What is Gandalf? Affordable Docker Private Registries. We provide a secure private registry where users can host their docker images and share them privately and securely within teams.
What is Harbor? 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.
Gandalf and Harbor can be categorized as "Docker Registry" tools.
Some of the features offered by Gandalf are:
- Push an Image to Gandalf
- Pull an Image from Gandalf
- Add Collaborators
On the other hand, Harbor provides the following key features:
- Multi-tenant content signing and validation
- Image replication between instances
- Extensible API and graphical UI
Harbor is an open source tool with 8.18K GitHub stars and 2.32K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Harbor's open source repository on GitHub.
Hello Container people, If you are thinking about self-hosting a container registry. Harbor has some outstanding options that sets it apart from all the other registries specially for teams! I created a post to highlight two ways on how to overcome the Docker Hub pull rate limit and improve security and governance.
Pros of Gandalf
Pros of Harbor
- Good on-premises container registry4
- Container Replication1
- Nice UI1
- Vulnerability Scanner1
- Supports LDAP/Active Directory1
- Supports OIDC1
- Support multiple authentication methods1
- Perfect for Teams and Organizations1
