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Harbor vs kube-bench: 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, kube-bench is detailed as "Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices". It is a Go application that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark Tests are configured with YAML files, making this tool easy to update as test specifications evolve..
Harbor and kube-bench are primarily classified as "Docker Registry" and "Container" tools respectively.
Harbor is an open source tool with 12.1K GitHub stars and 3.22K 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