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8gears Container Registry is a container image and OCI Artifact management platform based on CNCF Harbor, positioned as an “artifact backbone” for enterprise software supply chains. It offers a SaaS-like multi-tenant free plan and dedicated managed instances, while also supporting self-hosted Harbor distributions in a company’s own cloud, on-premises data center, or isolated environment.
Its features cover the storage, distribution, and management of container images, Helm charts, and any OCI artifact. For DevOps teams, it emphasizes replication, proxying third-party registries, centralized image management, and automation via REST API/Terraform/Pulumi/CLI. For security teams, it provides Trivy vulnerability scanning, SBOM, audit logs, policy enforcement, content trust and signing, TLS, and encryption at rest. For access control, it supports fine-grained RBAC across users, teams, and projects, with OIDC and LDAP integration; the Enterprise plan further extends identity sources to SAML, GitLab, GitHub, EntraID, and more.
The Free plan is permanently free, requires no credit card, and includes 1GB storage, unlimited private repositories, and community support. Dedicated provides an exclusive Harbor instance, 1000GB storage, unlimited users and teams, custom domains, no egress fees, and a 14-day trial, but the crawled content does not show a specific monthly price. Enterprise is custom-priced and supports deployment on any cloud or on-premises, multi-region high availability, custom SLAs, professional services, and white labeling. Payments support major credit cards, enterprises can pay by invoice, and Dedicated is also available through AWS Marketplace.
Its strengths are that it is built on the mature Harbor ecosystem and operated by Harbor maintainers, which gives it strong credibility and expertise. It also covers managed, dedicated, self-hosted, and air-gapped deployment models, making it suitable for enterprise compliance and multi-cloud scenarios. The downsides are that many advanced capabilities are concentrated in the Enterprise plan, the free plan has very limited storage, and Dedicated’s exact pricing is missing from the crawled text, limiting budget transparency.
It is suitable for platform engineering teams, CISO/security teams, ISVs, cloud service providers, and enterprises that need a unified artifact repository. Information on access from mainland China, latency, ICP filing, RMB payments, and related matters is not disclosed. Before adopting it, users should test network performance and the billing process; alternatives to compare include Docker Hub, GitHub/GitLab Container Registry, AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, Google Artifact Registry, or a self-hosted Harbor setup.
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