How to use VMware Harbor with MinIO?

Harbor is an enterprise-class docker registry server to store and distribute container images. Follow this document to use MinIO object storage server as a storage backend for Harbor container registry.

Prerequesites

• Install and run MinIO server

podman run \
  -p 9000:9000 \
  -p 9001:9001 \
  minio/minio server /data{1...4} --console-address ":9001"

• Install Harbor registry

The binary of the installer can be downloaded from the releases page. Follow harbor installation and configuration guide for further instructions.

Edit harbor.yml

Add the s3 configuration to the storage_service section in your harbor/harbor.yml.

storage_service:
  s3:
    accesskey: minio
    secretkey: minio123
    region: us-east-1
    regionendpoint: http://minio-endpoint:9000
    bucket: harbor
    secure: false
    v4auth: true

Start Harbor registry

sudo ./install.sh
Creating harbor-jobservice ... done
Creating nginx             ... done
✔ ----Harbor has been installed and started successfully.----

Note that the default administrator username/password are admin/Harbor12345.

Create a custom project

Visit http://reg.example.com and login to create a project name myproject

Push your first image

Login to the harbor registry before attempting to push your first image.

docker login reg.example.com
Username: admin
Password: Harbor12345
Login Succeeded

Proceed to push your first image to the harbor registry.

docker tag ubuntu reg.example.com/myproject/myrepo
docker push reg.example.com/myproject/myrepo
The push refers to a repository [reg.example.com/myproject/myrepo]
5eb5bd4c5014: Pushed
d195a7a18c70: Pushed
...

To check if image has been successfully uploaded login from MinIO browser console through http://YOUR-MINIO-IP:9000 with username minio and password minio123.

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