Harbor vs Gatekeeper: What are the differences?

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.

What is Gatekeeper? *K8s Gatekeeper Policy Manager, Easily Visualize Policies and Violations *. It is a simple to use, open-source, web-based tool to see the OPA Gatekeeper's policies deployed in your cluster and their status.

Harbor can be classified as a tool in the "Docker Registry" category, while Gatekeeper is grouped under "Container Tools".

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, Gatekeeper provides the following key features:

• An extensible, parameterized policy library
• Native Kubernetes CRDs for instantiating the policy library
• Native Kubernetes CRDs for extending the policy library

Harbor is an open source tool with 11.6K GitHub stars and 3.14K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Harbor's open source repository on GitHub.