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Red Hat Quay 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

Red Hat Quay
Ranking in Container Registry
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
2
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 June 2025, in the Container Registry category, the mindshare of Red Hat Quay is 8.4%, down from 8.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Harbor Registry is 1.7%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Registry
 

Featured Reviews

SunilkumarSivan - PeerSpot reviewer
Pretty user-friendly, efficient user management and continuously updated with new versions
It's pretty user-friendly. It's operator-based, and there's no complication in setting it up. Things like downloading an image, pulling an image, tagging, and pushing it back to the needed organization are fairly easy compared to doing things through the command-line interface. Red Hat is constantly improving its product. Every new version rollout comes with updates that enhance performance. One example is that we used to experience issues when clicking on a repository if we had thousands of them in the registry. In the latest versions, those things have been taken care of.
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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
17%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
University
7%
 

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?
From the AI perspective, it just serves as a container registry at this point. We are also looking for the possibility to retain a VM image from Quay, which is not possible currently. So, nothing i...
What is your primary use case for Red Hat Quay?
We use Red Hat Quay as a single source of truth for all of our container images. We store all the container images that are used in the OpenShift platform.
What advice do you have for others considering Red Hat Quay?
I would definitely recommend it. Overall, I would rate this product an eight out of ten.
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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VMware Harbor
 

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Sample Customers

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