Harbor vs Lens: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Lens? Open-source IDE to control your Kubernetes clusters. It is the only IDE you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It is a standalone application for MacOS, Windows and Linux operating systems. It is open source and free.

Harbor can be classified as a tool in the "Docker Registry" category, while Lens is grouped under "Container Tools".

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, Lens provides the following key features:

• Multi Cluster Management
• Multiple Workspaces
• Built-In Prometheus Stats

Harbor and Lens are both open source tools. It seems that Harbor with 11.4K GitHub stars and 3.11K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Lens with 3.32K GitHub stars and 139 GitHub forks.