Harbor vs Kubetap: What are the differences?

Developers describe Harbor 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. On the other hand, Kubetap is detailed as "kubectl plugin to deploy intercepting proxies to K8s Services". It is a kubectl plugin that enables an operator to easily deploy intercepting proxies for Kubernetes Services. It arose from a need to quickly and efficiently proxy Kubernetes Services without imposing a CNI mandate.

Harbor and Kubetap 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, Kubetap provides the following key features:

• Security Testing
• Developer debugging
• Interactively proxy Kubernetes Services with ease

Harbor is an open source tool with 11.9K GitHub stars and 3.18K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Harbor's open source repository on GitHub.