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Amazon ECR vs Harbor: What are the differences?

Developers describe Amazon ECR as "A fully-managed Docker container registry service". Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images. It is integrated with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), simplifying your development to production workflow. On the other hand, Harbor is detailed 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.

Amazon ECR and Harbor can be categorized as "Docker Registry" tools.

Some of the features offered by Amazon ECR are:

  • Docker support
  • Team collaboration
  • Access control

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

Harbor is an open source tool with 8.69K GitHub stars and 2.48K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Harbor's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Amazon ECR
Pros of Harbor
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    Highly secure as policies can be configured to manage p
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    Familiar to AWS users and easy to use
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    No upfront fees or commitments. You pay only for the am
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    Tight integration with Amazon ECS and the Docker CLI, a
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    Good on-premises container registry
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    Container Replication
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    Nice UI
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    Vulnerability Scanner
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    Supports LDAP/Active Directory
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    Supports OIDC
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    Support multiple authentication methods
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    Perfect for Teams and Organizations

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Cons of Amazon ECR
Cons of Harbor
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    Difficult to use with docker client as it requires crea
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    Lack of insight into registry usage
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    Potentially expensive if the containers being deployed
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    What is Amazon ECR?

    It is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, manage, share, and deploy your container images and artifacts anywhere. It eliminates the need to operate your own container repositories or worry about scaling the underlying infrastructure.

    What is Harbor?

    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

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    What are some alternatives to Amazon ECR and Harbor?
    Docker Hub
    It is the world's easiest way to create, manage, and deliver your teams' container applications. It is the perfect home for your teams' applications.
    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.
    Quay.io
    Simply upload your Dockerfile (and any additional files it needs) and we'll build your Dockerfile into an image and push it to your repository.
    Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public
    It is a fully managed registry that makes it easy for a developer to publicly share container software worldwide for anyone to download. Anyone (with or without an AWS account) can use it to pull container software for use. Amazon ECR Public Gallery is a website that allows anyone to browse and search for public container images, view developer-provided details, and see pull commands. Developers no longer need to use different private and public registries when building and sharing their public container artifacts.
    Kraken by Uber
    A P2P-powered Docker registry that focuses on scalability and availability. It is designed for Docker image management, replication and distribution in a hybrid cloud environment.
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