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VMWare Harbor: How to point your registry to a specific directory to use as datastore

I am setting up VMWare Harbor as an image registry (just like a docker trusted registry) and I am not sure where it is currently configured to store images once pushed.

I could not find documentation on how to do this, so my question is: How would I go about mapping Harbor to store images on a specific directory (/data01) that has already had disk space allocated for the images?

Solution

  • Harbor uses the standard docker registry behind the scenes, it just provides a nice UI and interface to use it.

    Configuring it depends on how you're deploying Harbor itself. There are instructions for configuring a storage backend in the installation guide. If you have a mountpoint like /data01 you want to use, it is probably something like this:

    storage:
  filesystem:
    rootdirectory: /data01

    See the instructions for your harbor installed method for more information.