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JOURNAL OF Intelligent Infrastructure Insights for the Modern Datacenter Era · by Dr Pranay Jha Explore the Guides

Harbor for Beginners: The Complete Guide

A hands-on, beginner-friendly path to the Harbor container registry, written for people coming from a VMware background. Twelve short parts take you from a first look at the console to a model image serving traffic on a Private AI platform. Each part is a single lab you can follow at your own pace. Start at Part 1, or jump to the part you need.

Series complete · 12 of 12 parts published
The path: console to running model
Phase 1 · Foundations
  1. 01Getting started: meet Harbor and tour the console
  2. 02Create your first project
Phase 2 · The core daily workflow
  1. 03Push your first image, without Docker
  2. 04Tag an image and understand versions
Phase 3 · Security
  1. 05Scan an image for vulnerabilities
  2. 06Block risky images with a gate
Phase 4 · Access and automation
  1. 07Add members and set their roles
  2. 08Create a robot account for automation
Phase 5 · Governance and housekeeping
  1. 09Set retention and immutability rules
  2. 10See storage and free up space
Phase 6 · Advanced and real world
  1. 11Replication and proxy cache
  2. 12Putting it all together in a Private AI workflow

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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.