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Red Hat Quay vs VMware Harbor Registry comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Red Hat Quay
Ranking in Container Registry
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Harbor Registry
Ranking in Container Registry
7th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Container Registry category, the mindshare of Red Hat Quay is 8.0%, down from 8.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Harbor Registry is 1.6%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Registry Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Red Hat Quay8.0%
VMware Harbor Registry1.6%
Other90.4%
Container Registry
 

Featured Reviews

SunilkumarSivan - PeerSpot reviewer
Experience with image management has improved application deployments
The best features in Red Hat Quay include the user interface and the RBAC facility, which allows us to control image access for specific teams. We have geo-replication in place, where storage can be replicated across regions, providing redundancy to prevent single points of failure. It is configured to ensure constant availability. Red Hat Quay's automated image building enhances CI/CD pipeline efficiency because all our applications are deployed through CI/CD pipeline, whether Jenkins or Octopus, and can pull images directly through Red Hat Quay using robot accounts and service accounts. This makes it effective from that perspective. Role-based access control is a major feature we have been using because we have hundreds of applications deployed in our container platform, owned by various application owners. Role-based access helps us restrict access to unwanted users within the organization. We maintain separate organizations with different types of access for users, including admin access, view access, and read access for every image. The geo-replication happens at the backend, while the front-end RBAC is managed through a single dashboard. The continuous dynamic sync runs in the background, though monitoring capabilities are limited to the storage team's purview.
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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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
22%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Retailer
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Red Hat Quay?
Red Hat Quay can improve its statistics capabilities. Currently, we don't have means to check the overall utilization, such as the number of repositories, frequency of usage for each repository, an...
What is your primary use case for Red Hat Quay?
The main use case is to use Red Hat Quay for image management as an enterprise image registry in our organization. All the container images, whether from AKS, GKE, or OpenShift, are stored on Red H...
What advice do you have for others considering Red Hat Quay?
I still have experience with Red Hat solutions, specifically with OpenShift and Red Hat Quay. I don't have experience with Red Hat AMQ, Satellite, or API Management, as those are handled by a platf...
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...
 

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Sample Customers

The Asiakastieto Group, Akbank, TTTECH
360 Total Security, OVHcloud, TalkingData, Trend Micro
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