Project Harbor is an an open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content. Harbor extends the open source Docker Distribution by adding the functionalities usually required by users such as security, identity and management. Having a registry closer to the build and run environment can improve the image transfer efficiency. Harbor supports replication of images between registries, and also offers advanced security features such as user management, access control and activity auditing.
* **Role based access control**: Users and repositories are organized via 'projects' and a user can have different permission for images under a project.
* **Policy based image replication**: Images can be replicated (synchronized) between multiple registry instances, with auto-retry on errors. Great for load balancing, high availability, multi-datacenter, hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios.
Download binaries of **[Harbor release ](https://github.com/vmware/harbor/releases)** and follow **[Installation & Configuration Guide](docs/installation_guide.md)** to install Harbor.
**User Group:** Join Harbor user email group: [harbor-users@googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/harbor-users) to get update of Harbor's news, features, releases, or to provide suggestion and feedback. To subscribe, send an email to [harbor-users+subscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:harbor-users+subscribe@googlegroups.com) .
**Developer Group:** Join Harbor developer group: [harbor-dev@googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/harbor-dev) for discussion on Harbor development and contribution. To subscribe, send an email to [harbor-dev+subscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:harbor-dev+subscribe@googlegroups.com).
**Slack:** Join Harbor's community for discussion and ask questions: [VMware {code}](https://code.vmware.com/join/), channel: [#harbor](https://vmwarecode.slack.com/messages/harbor).
We welcome contributions from the community. If you wish to contribute code and you have not signed our contributor license agreement (CLA), our bot will update the issue when you open a pull request. For any questions about the CLA process, please refer to our [FAQ](https://cla.vmware.com/faq). Contact us for any questions: [harbor@vmware.com](mailto:harbor@vmware.com).
This project uses open source components which have additional licensing terms. The official docker images and licensing terms for these open source components can be found at the following locations:
