Harbor is an open-source container registry that is designed to work with a variety of container orchestration platforms, including VMware Tanzu. In other words, it’s a pre-packaged set of files and configurations that allows software to run consistently and reliably across different computing environments. Harbor is a popular open-source container registry that allows developers to store, manage, and distribute their container images, including Docker images.

Harbor can be integrated with Tanzu to provide a secure, scalable, and easy-to-use container registry that is optimized for use with Kubernetes.

Harbor can be installed as a standalone service or as part of the VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI) platform, which is a Kubernetes distribution that is optimized for use with VMware infrastructure.

Below is a list of commands to get you started on VMware Harbor Images. These were extremely useful to me, and I hope that you find them useful too!

/root/Tanzu/harbor_image.yaml (sample yaml file for harbor image)

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: nextlevel-deployment
  labels:
    app: nextlevel
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: nextlevel
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: nextlevel
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nextlevel
        image: 192.168.30.35/namespace-01/nextlevel:1.0
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: nextlevel-lb
spec:
  selector:
    app: nextlevel
  ports:
    - port: 80
      targetPort: 80
  type: LoadBalancer

Apply this YAML file to deploy the application and service.

# kubectl apply -f /root/Tanzu/harbor_image.yaml

Get the external IP of this new deployment by listing the Kubernetes services.

# kubectl get services

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