Managing Container Images with Harbor

In the previous chapters, we covered the tools in the Tanzu portfolio that help us build cloud-native applications. We started our first segment with an overview of the evolution of building, running, and managing modern cloud-native applications and their platforms. Then, we saw how we can start application development using templates, how to build secure container images, how to quickly provision backing services for the applications, and how to manage APIs using various Tanzu products. After learning about building cloud-native applications, in this chapter, we will take a deep dive into various aspects of running them.

As the title of this chapter indicates, we will learn how to manage our container images and securely make them accessible using Harbor to deploy our applications on Kubernetes. Harbor is an open source container registry project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) umbrella. Despite Harbor being a fully open...