Harbor vs RancherOS

Overview

RancherOS

Stacks104

Followers158

Votes3

GitHub Stars6.4K

Forks654

Harbor

Stacks183

Followers185

Votes11

GitHub Stars26.8K

Forks5.0K

RancherOS vs Harbor: What are the differences?

What is RancherOS? A Lightweight Container Operating System. It makes it simple to run containers at scale in development, test and production. By containerizing system services and leveraging Docker for management, the operating system provides a very reliable and easy to manage containers.

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.

RancherOS can be classified as a tool in the "Operating Systems" category, while Harbor is grouped under "Docker Registry".

Some of the features offered by RancherOS are:

Lightweight
Rancher Integration
Kuberenetes Integration

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

RancherOS and Harbor are both open source tools. It seems that Harbor with 9.96K GitHub stars and 2.82K forks on GitHub has more adoption than RancherOS with 5.63K GitHub stars and 568 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

RancherOS	Harbor
It makes it simple to run containers at scale in development, test and production. By containerizing system services and leveraging Docker for management, the operating system provides a very reliable and easy to manage containers.	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
Lightweight; Rancher Integration; Kuberenetes Integration;Minimalist OS;Comprehensive System Services;Improved Security	Multi-tenant content signing and validation;Image replication between instances;Extensible API and graphical UI;Security and vulnerability analysis;Identity integration and role-based access control;Internationalization
Statistics
GitHub Stars 6.4K	GitHub Stars 26.8K
GitHub Forks 654	GitHub Forks 5.0K
Stacks 104	Stacks 183
Followers 158	Followers 185
Votes 3	Votes 11
Pros & Cons
Pros 3 System-docker	Pros 4 Good on-premises container registry 1 Support multiple authentication methods 1 Supports OIDC 1 Supports LDAP/Active Directory 1 Vulnerability Scanner
Integrations
Linux Docker Rancher Kubernetes	Docker Kubernetes Helm

What are some alternatives to RancherOS, Harbor?

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

Rancher

Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.

Docker Compose

With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Docker Swarm

Swarm serves the standard Docker API, so any tool which already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts: Dokku, Compose, Krane, Deis, DockerUI, Shipyard, Drone, Jenkins... and, of course, the Docker client itself.

Tutum

Tutum lets developers easily manage and run lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. AWS-like control, Heroku-like ease. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale in Tutum.

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Portainer

It is a universal container management tool. It works with Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Swarm and Azure ACI. It allows you to manage containers without needing to know platform-specific code.

Arch Linux

A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.