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Harbor📜

Overview📜

Harbor is an open source registry that secures artifacts with policies and role-based access control, ensures images are scanned and free from vulnerabilities, and signs images as trusted.

Harbor📜

graph LR
  subgraph "Harbor"
    harborpods("Harbor Pods")
  end

  subgraph "Ingress"
    ig(Ingress Gateway) --> harborpods("Harbor Pods")
  end

  subgraph "External Databases"
    harborpods("Harbor Pods") --> database1[(PostgreSQL DB)]
    harborpods("Harbor Pods") --> database2[(Redis DB)]
  end

  subgraph "Object Storage (S3/Swift)"
    harborpods("Harbor Pods") --> bucket[(Harbor Bucket)]
  end

  subgraph "Image Scanner"
    harborpods("Harbor Pods") --> Trivy("Trivy")
  end

  subgraph "Logging"
    harborpods("Harbor Pods") --> fluent(Fluentbit) --> logging-ek-es-http
    logging-ek-es-http{{Elastic Service<br />logging-ek-es-http}} --> plg[(PLG Storage)]
  end

  subgraph "Monitoring"
    svcmonitor("Service Monitor") --> harborpods("Harbor Pods")
    Prometheus --> svcmonitor("Service Monitor")
  end

For more information on the Harbor architecture, see Harbor Overview and Architecture.

Harbor Touch Points📜

Storage📜

By default Harbor uses local storage for the registry, but you can optionally configure the storage_service setting so that Harbor uses external storage.

See below for an example of the values to provide an external storage backend for Harbor:

persistence:
  imageChartStorage:
    # Specify the type of storage: "filesystem", "azure", "gcs", "s3", "swift",
    # "oss" and fill the information needed in the corresponding section. The type
    # must be "filesystem" if you want to use persistent volumes for registry
    type: s3
    s3:
      # Set an existing secret for S3 accesskey and secretkey
      # keys in the secret should be REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_ACCESSKEY and REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_SECRETKEY for registry
      #existingSecret: ""
      region: us-west-1
      bucket: bucketname
      #accesskey: awsaccesskey
      #secretkey: awssecretkey
      #regionendpoint: http://myobjects.local
      #encrypt: false
      #keyid: mykeyid
      #secure: true

High Availability📜

Reference the Harbor High Availability Guide for an overview of a harbor high availability deployment.

See below for an example of the values to provide high availability within harbor:

portal:
  replicas: 2
core:
  replicas: 2
jobservice:
  replicas: 2
registry:
  replicas: 2

UI📜

Harbor is accessible via extensible API and web UI. Within the values you are able to configure the URL that harbor is able to be accessed.

See below for an example of how to set the values to set the URL for UI within Harbor:

externalURL: https://core.harbor.domain
core:
  secretName: "name_of_secret"

For additional information reference Deploying Harbor in Production

Logging📜

Harbor keeps a log of all of the operations that users perform in a project. You can apply filters to help you to search the logs. By default, Harbor tracks all image pull, push, and delete operations performed and keeps a record of these actions in a database. Harbor offers the ability to manage audit logs by configuring an audit log retention window and setting a syslog endpoint to forward audit logs.

Monitoring📜

Harbor exposes prometheus metrics in the API of each service if the config.yaml used by that service has the metrics.enabled keys set to enabled. Each service exports its own metrics and can be scraped by the monitoring package within a BigBang installation.

See below for an example of how to set the values to enable metrics for Harbor:

metrics:
  enabled: true

Dependent Packages📜

  • PostgreSQL (in-cluster by default; can be configured to use an external postgres)
  • Redis (in-cluster by default; can be configured to use an external redis)