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Harbor vs Lens: 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 Lens? Open-source IDE to control your Kubernetes clusters. It is the only IDE you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It is a standalone application for MacOS, Windows and Linux operating systems. It is open source and free.
Harbor can be classified as a tool in the "Docker Registry" category, while Lens 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, Lens provides the following key features:
- Multi Cluster Management
- Multiple Workspaces
- Built-In Prometheus Stats
Harbor and Lens are both open source tools. It seems that Harbor with 11.4K GitHub stars and 3.11K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Lens with 3.32K GitHub stars and 139 GitHub forks.
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
Pros of Lens
- Keep track of cluster changes4
- Easy management of multiple clusters2
- Open Source2
- Local installation, not SaaS1