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IBM Cloud Container Registry vs VMware Harbor Registry comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Cloud Container Registry
Ranking in Container Registry
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Harbor Registry
Ranking in Container Registry
7th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Container Registry category, the mindshare of IBM Cloud Container Registry is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Harbor Registry is 1.6%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Registry Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
VMware Harbor Registry1.6%
IBM Cloud Container Registry0.4%
Other98.0%
Container Registry
 

Featured Reviews

Manuel Cruz - PeerSpot reviewer
Ensures students only have access while on campus but is expensive
It was limited because it was only to support a program. There was some benefits because we didn't have the infrastructure physically, so we would have to buy it. We didn't have to make an investment at the beginning. It has pay-as-you-use pricing. It was good for us. In this Business Intelligence and Analytics program, there are about 15 courses. In 10 courses, they use the cloud infrastructure, different software. They have MySQL database with lots of data. They have to do exercises and and analyze the the data. Basically, they had to do a lot of exercises regarding machine learning. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
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Effortless setup and comprehensive image scanning enhance project efficiency with minimal manual intervention
The challenge I encountered while using the VMware Harbor Registry is that sometimes the default credentials get overwritten, so we have to restart Harbor to make it function as before. The default credential rewrite is one of the major pains with Harbor, so this has to be improved. They can expand more into the known issue section and support for the older versions. We did check the documentation as well as some of the issues mentioned in GitHub, but they weren't that useful.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We use the the IBM cloud to provide the computing solution for the course."
"The product is efficient and can be used for multiple environments."
"It is very convenient to automate consistently deploying it to a Kubernetes environment to see how it performs."
 

Cons

"Price should be reduced."
"IBM Cloud Container Registry should improve its API management. One improvement factor could be enhancing the integration capabilities of container registries like Harbor with hyperscaler platforms. While some container registries, like Azure Container Registry and IBM Cloud Container Registry, are tightly integrated with their respective hyperscaler environments, others may lack integration options."
"The image scanning in VMware Harbor Registry is quite limited compared to other specialized image scanning tools."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is recommended to enterprises due to its high costs."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
23%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Retailer
9%
Logistics Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Cloud Container Registry?
The product is efficient and can be used for multiple environments.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Cloud Container Registry?
I rate the pricing at six on a scale, of ten where ten is expensive.
What needs improvement with VMware Harbor Registry?
The challenge I encountered while using the VMware Harbor Registry is that sometimes the default credentials get overwritten, so we have to restart Harbor to make it function as before. The default...
What is your primary use case for VMware Harbor Registry?
I have been working with the VMware Harbor Registry for three years. I am currently using version 2.93 of the VMware Harbor Registry. For Harbor, we use both open source and enterprise versions; we...
 

Also Known As

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Sample Customers

American Airlines, UBank, Bitly, Eurobits
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