Category: Private AI
Guides, labs, and troubleshooting for building private, self-hosted AI on a private cloud platform.
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Harbor for Beginners, Part 12: Putting It All Together in a Private AI Workflow
Harbor for Beginners · Part 12 of 12 Putting It All Together in a Private AI Workflow This is the finale. Across eleven parts you learned Harbor one piece at a time: projects, pushes, scans, gates, members, robots, retention, storage, and the way it talks to other registries. Now we step back and watch all…
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Harbor for Beginners, Part 11: Replication and Proxy Cache
Harbor for Beginners · Part 11 of 12 Replication and Proxy Cache By now you have pushed images, scanned them, locked them down, and cleaned them up, all inside your own project. This part looks outward. Harbor does not have to live on its own island. It can talk to other registries in two different…
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Harbor for Beginners, Part 10: See Storage and Free Up Space
Read how much space your project uses, see where it comes from, understand what a quota does, and free space by deleting an artifact, with a real before-and-after drop from 708 MiB to 306 MiB.
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Harbor for Beginners, Part 9: Set Retention and Immutability Rules
Keep your project tidy and safe. Set a retention rule to auto-clean old versions (preview it with a dry run), put it on a schedule, then lock important tags with an immutability rule so they can never change.
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Harbor for Beginners, Part 8: Create a Robot Account
Create a login for scripts and pipelines so they never use your password. Make a robot account, scope its permissions, grab its one-time secret, and use it to pull, all by yourself as Project Admin.
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Harbor for Beginners, Part 7: Add Members and Set Their Roles
Open your project to other people and decide what each one can do. The five Harbor roles explained in plain terms, how to add a member, and where new accounts actually come from.
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Harbor for Beginners, Part 6: Block Risky Images
Turn the scanner’s findings into a gate. Set a severity line, and Harbor refuses to hand out any image that crosses it, while clean images pull as normal. With a real before-and-after using a vulnerable nginx.
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Harbor for Beginners, Part 5: Scan an Image for Vulnerabilities
Press one button and let Harbor check your image for known security problems. Run the built-in Trivy scanner, watch it work, read the result, and learn what a report full of CVEs looks like.
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Harbor for Beginners, Part 4: Tag an Image and Understand Versions
The three words you keep seeing in Harbor, explained by adding a second tag to the image you pushed. See how one artifact can carry many tags, and why a digest is the real identity.
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Harbor for Beginners, Part 3: Push Your First Image
Put a real image into your Harbor project without Docker. Use the crane tool from the Jupyter notebook to copy a public image in, then watch it appear in the console with its tag, size, and digest.
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Harbor for Beginners, Part 2: Create Your First Project
Make your own project in Harbor so you can actually start using it. Public versus private in plain terms, the thirty-second create flow, and a tour of the admin tabs you get once a project is yours.
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Harbor for Beginners, Part 1: Getting Started
A friendly first tour of the Harbor registry for people from a VMware background. What Harbor is, how to read the Projects page, and what each screen does, with nothing changed and nothing to break.
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About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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