The Authoritative Guide on Harbor: Management and Practice of Cloud Native Artifacts Such as Container Images and Helm Charts

Harbor is a major CNCF open source project, with thousands of production users all over the world. This book provides a comprehensive explanation of the open source cloud native registry: Harbor. Written by experts who contributed to and now maintain Harbor, the content covers its architecture, principles, functions, deployment and configuration, scanning artifacts, remote replication, operation and maintenance, customized development, API usage and success stories.

The book offers a valuable guide for Harbor users, developers and contributors, cloud native software development engineers, test engineers, operational and maintenance engineers, IT architects and IT technical managers. It will also benefit university students in computer-related disciplines.

Haining Henry Zhang is the Technical Director of China R&D at VMware. He is the founder and maintainer of Harbor – a major CNCF open source project. A frequent speaker at KubeCon EU/NA/China, his primary role is to lead the development and incubation of solutions based on emerging technologies, including container, AI and blockchain. Henry has contributed to various OSS projects such as Harbor and FATE.

Yan Wang is a Staff Engineer working at VMWare as one of the core maintainers of CNCF graduated project Harbor and the maintainer of CNCF project Distribution. Yan focuses on technical research and innovation in the cloud native field.