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# Container Registry

*The Artifact Backbone of Your Software Supply Chain*

Store, manage and distribute container artifacts securely at scale.

8gears Container Registry is the enterprise Harbor distribution built and operated by Harbor maintainers.

## Top sections

- [Documentation](/docs/index.md) — Guides and reference for 8gears Container Registry.
- [Blog](/posts/index.md) — Announcements, tutorials, and engineering write-ups.
- [Pricing](/pricing/index.md) — Plans, limits, and ordering.
- [About](/about/index.md) — Company, team, and mission.
- [Contact](/contact/index.md) — How to reach us.
- [Partners](/partners/index.md) — Hosting and channel partners.

## Recent blog posts

- [Hardening Harbor on AWS: Achieving Zero-Static-Secret Architecture](/posts/hardening-harbor-on-aws/index.md) — Standard Harbor deployments on AWS rely on long-lived credentials that violate modern security standards. In this post, I detail how I refactored Harbor to use ephemeral tokens via RDS IAM and IRSA, eliminating static keys entirely.
- [Harbor at KubeCon London](/posts/harbor-at-kubecon-london-2025/index.md) — Meet the team behind Harbor at KubeCon London 2025
- [How to automate Flask development workflow with Container Registry and GitHub Actions](/posts/how-to-automate-flask-development-workflow-with-container-registry-and-github-actions/index.md) — This tutorial demonstrates how to create an automated workflow for building a containerized Flask application. We will use GitHub Actions to run the workflow and 8gears Container Registry as our image repository.
- [KubeCon North America 2023 – The Takeaways](/posts/2023-kubecon-chicago-takeaways/index.md) — I took away some exciting insights from discussions and presentations at KubeCon 2023, the current hypes and long-term developments in the cloud-native landscape. During that week, I participated in two presentations and spent some time at the Harbor project booth speaking with Harbor users. Here are my takeaways from that intense week.
- [How Does Dockers Decision of Sunsetting Free Team Organizations Impacts You](/posts/how-does-dockers-decision-of-sunsetting-free-team-organizations-impacts-you/index.md) — Even if you don’t have a team organization and what you can do about it. Docker Inc. continues on its course of eliminating free offerings: Now the "Docker Free Team" model has to take its turn. With the «Free Team Organizations» offering, it was possible to publish public container images for free in Docker Hub. Many open-source projects have taken advantage of the offer; however, the impact is affecting everyone.
- [What's new in Harbor 2.6](/posts/whats-new-in-harbor-version-2.6.0/index.md)
- [Container Image Versioning](/posts/container-image-versioning/index.md)
- [Getting Started with Container Registry](/posts/getting-started-with-harbor-container-registry/index.md) — How to push and pull container image using our Harbor Container Registry a detailed step-by-step guide on working with container registries.
- [Harbor Release 2.2.0](/posts/harbor-2.2.0-new-features-explained/index.md)
- [Distributing Commercial Software Through Container Images](/posts/distributing-commercial-software-through-container-images/index.md)