7 engineers on Hacker News describe using Harbor first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“it is easy to create sharable experiments with Harbor - we migrated our own benchmarks there”
endorse · production · stared · 2026-01-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am about to dump Harbor because teams don't use it and frankly Nexus provides the same functionality.”
regret · production · firesteelrain · 2025-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run our own Harbor instance at work and I can tell you... Docker images are NOT light.”
mixed · production · znpy · 2020-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run our own Docker registry on-prem with Harbor as well.”
neutral · production · inglor_cz · 2025-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the pipeline uses an internal artifactory/harbor (no external Internet)”
neutral · production · ytjohn · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run on openstack, run our own registry (harbor) and our cloud provider doesn't charge us for bandwidth”
neutral · production · znpy · 2021-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“since we run our own harbor instance, most of the image pulls happen within our openstack network”
neutral · production · znpy · 2020-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?