Harbor vs kubernetes-common-services: What are the differences?

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; kubernetes-common-services: Managing common Kubernetes services the GitOps way. It make it easier to run common services in kubernetes by taking care of it for you so that you can get to working on your application faster instead of dealing with infrastructure components.

Harbor and kubernetes-common-services are primarily classified as "Docker Registry" and "Container" tools respectively.

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, kubernetes-common-services provides the following key features:

• Automated turndown of Kubernetes clusters on specific schedules
• Manages your DNS automatically via annotations
• Scale by any Prometheus metrics

Harbor and kubernetes-common-services are both open source tools. Harbor with 11.3K GitHub stars and 3.1K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than kubernetes-common-services with 9 GitHub stars and 1 GitHub forks.