diff --git a/src/server/middleware/middleware.go b/src/server/middleware/middleware.go
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+++ b/src/server/middleware/middleware.go
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+// Copyright Project Harbor Authors
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package middleware
+
+import "net/http"
+
+// Middleware receives a handler and returns another handler
+// the returned handler can do some customized task according to
+// the requirement
+type Middleware func(http.Handler) http.Handler
diff --git a/src/server/v2.0/registry/catalog/catalog.go b/src/server/v2.0/registry/catalog/catalog.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..44882df00
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+++ b/src/server/v2.0/registry/catalog/catalog.go
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+// Copyright Project Harbor Authors
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package catalog
+
+import "net/http"
+
+// NewHandler returns the handler to handler catalog request
+func NewHandler() http.Handler {
+	return &handler{}
+}
+
+type handler struct{}
+
+func (h *handler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+	// TODO implement
+}
+
+type catalogResponse struct {
+	Repositories []string `json:"repositories"`
+}
diff --git a/src/server/v2.0/registry/handler.go b/src/server/v2.0/registry/handler.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..25980236e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/server/v2.0/registry/handler.go
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+// Copyright Project Harbor Authors
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package registry
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httputil"
+	"net/url"
+
+	"github.com/goharbor/harbor/src/server/v2.0/registry/catalog"
+	"github.com/goharbor/harbor/src/server/v2.0/registry/manifest"
+	"github.com/goharbor/harbor/src/server/v2.0/registry/tag"
+	"github.com/gorilla/mux"
+)
+
+// New return the registry instance to handle the registry APIs
+func New(url *url.URL) http.Handler {
+	// TODO add a director to add the basic auth for docker registry
+	// TODO customize the reverse proxy to improve the performance?
+	proxy := httputil.NewSingleHostReverseProxy(url)
+
+	// create the root rooter
+	rootRouter := mux.NewRouter()
+	rootRouter.StrictSlash(true)
+
+	// handle catalog
+	rootRouter.Path("/v2/_catalog").Methods(http.MethodGet).Handler(catalog.NewHandler())
+
+	// handle list tag
+	rootRouter.Path("/v2/{name}/tags/list").Methods(http.MethodGet).Handler(tag.NewHandler())
+
+	// handle manifest
+	// TODO maybe we should split it into several sub routers based on the method
+	manifestRouter := rootRouter.Path("/v2/{name}/manifests/{reference}").Subrouter()
+	manifestRouter.NewRoute().Methods(http.MethodGet, http.MethodHead, http.MethodPut, http.MethodDelete).
+		Handler(manifest.NewHandler(proxy))
+
+	// handle blob
+	// as we need to apply middleware to the blob requests, so create a sub router to handle the blob APIs
+	blobRouter := rootRouter.Path("/v2/{name}/blobs/").Subrouter()
+	blobRouter.NewRoute().Methods(http.MethodGet, http.MethodHead, http.MethodPost, http.MethodPut, http.MethodPatch, http.MethodDelete).
+		Handler(proxy)
+
+	// all other APIs are proxy to the backend docker registry
+	rootRouter.PathPrefix("/").Handler(proxy)
+
+	// register middlewares
+	// TODO add auth middleware
+	// TODO apply the existing middlewares
+	// rootRouter.Use(mux.MiddlewareFunc(middleware))
+
+	return rootRouter
+}
diff --git a/src/server/v2.0/registry/manifest/manifest.go b/src/server/v2.0/registry/manifest/manifest.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7011ac320
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/server/v2.0/registry/manifest/manifest.go
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+// Copyright Project Harbor Authors
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package manifest
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httputil"
+)
+
+// NewHandler returns the handler to handler manifest requests
+func NewHandler(proxy *httputil.ReverseProxy) http.Handler {
+	return &handler{
+		proxy: proxy,
+	}
+}
+
+type handler struct {
+	proxy *httputil.ReverseProxy
+}
+
+func (h *handler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+	switch req.Method {
+	case http.MethodHead:
+		h.head(w, req)
+	case http.MethodGet:
+		h.get(w, req)
+	case http.MethodDelete:
+		h.delete(w, req)
+	case http.MethodPut:
+		h.put(w, req)
+	}
+}
+
+// make sure the artifact exist before proxying the request to the backend registry
+func (h *handler) head(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+	// TODO check the existence
+	h.proxy.ServeHTTP(w, req)
+}
+
+// make sure the artifact exist before proxying the request to the backend registry
+func (h *handler) get(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+	// TODO check the existence
+	h.proxy.ServeHTTP(w, req)
+}
+
+func (h *handler) delete(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+	// TODO implement, just delete from database
+}
+
+func (h *handler) put(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+	h.proxy.ServeHTTP(w, req)
+}
diff --git a/src/server/v2.0/registry/tag/tag.go b/src/server/v2.0/registry/tag/tag.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d7ae2ab8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/server/v2.0/registry/tag/tag.go
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+// Copyright Project Harbor Authors
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package tag
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+)
+
+// NewHandler returns the handler to handle listing tag request
+func NewHandler() http.Handler {
+	return &handler{}
+}
+
+type handler struct{}
+
+func (h *handler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+	// TODO implement
+	// support pagination, this is required for OCI registry spec
+}
+
+type listTagResponse struct {
+	Name string   `json:"name"`
+	Tags []string `json:"tags"`
+}