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Harbor vs Kind: 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, Kind is detailed as "Run local Kubernetes clusters using Docker". It is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes” It was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI..
Harbor and Kind 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, Kind provides the following key features:
- Supports multi-node (including HA) clusters
- Supports building Kubernetes release builds from source
- Support for make / bash / docker, or bazel, in addition to pre-published builds
Harbor is an open source tool with 11.2K GitHub stars and 3.09K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Harbor's open source repository on GitHub.
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