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Blog on Container Registry
Company blog · container-registry.com/postsprogrammingsystems
Blog on Container Registry is the company blog at container-registry.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Lifting developers’ productivity with BuildKit CLI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention this as a managed, hosted version of the open-source Harbor container registry, and one offers free private repos for small teams. The comments do not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
No frills best in class, Harbor-based container registry service for teams, individuals, and software vendors looking for ways to distribute images instead of zip files.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-01-05
- Lifting developers’ productivity with BuildKit CLI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-10
What Hacker News says?
We use a https://container-registry.com , which is a clean version of the open source Harbor registry software ( https://goharbor.io/ ) from one of the maintainers. It works well and reliable for years now and has no vendor-lock-in thanks to Harbor.
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on “Docker Hub Is Down”Submitted Lifting developers’ productivity with BuildKit CLI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionfyi: https://container-registry.com/ is offering free private repos for individuals and small teams.
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on “Show HN: Container registry on a budget using AWS S3”Submitted Lifting developers’ productivity on Kubernetes with BuildKit CLI for kubectl as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe run a CNCF Harbor-based container registry service ( https://container-registry.com/ ), happy to help the project and offer a registry free of charge. Harbor has the valuable option that allows you to replicate images to other registries. So, you push images to a central place and from there they are automatically replicated to ghcr, gcr, ecr, Docker Hub and so on. Happy to show and explain the various options an…
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on “Docker is sunsetting Free Team organizations”Submitted How to overcome the Docker Hub pull rate limit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionyou can use https://container-registry.com/ to store your images instead of Docker Hub.
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on “Ask HN: Docker Alternatives?”Submitted Container Vending Machine for ISVs – Automates commercial software distribution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI would be interesting if you could test also https://container-registry.com/ It is a Harbor based container registry and I would like to know how is it different to the Digital Ocean Container Registry.
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on “Testing Out the Digital Ocean Container Registry”Can recommend Harbor over Artifactory and Nexus if you aren't forced to use it. There is also a managed service offering of Harbor --> https://container-registry.com/
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on “Which selfhosted container registry are you using?”