In my last post, I walked through the process of deploying Kubeapps in an Enterprise PKS Kubernetes cluster. In this post, I wanted to examine the workflow required for utilizing Harbor, an open source cloud native registry, as an option to serve out a curated set of Helm charts to developers in an organization. We’ll walk through a couple of scenarios, including configuring a “private” project in Harbor that houses Helm charts and container images for a specific group of developers. Building on my last post, we’ll also add this new Helm chart repository into our Kubeapps deployment to allow our developers to deploy our curated applications directly from the Kubeapps dashboard.
Harbor is an an open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content. Harbor extends the open source Docker Distribution by adding the functionalities usually required by users such as security, identity and management. Having a registry closer to the build and run environment can improve the image transfer efficiency. Harbor supports replication of images between registries, and also offers advanced security features such as user management, access control and activity auditing. Enterprise support for Harbor Container Registry is included with VMware Enterprise PKS.
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