oras VS Harbor

Interesting, I'd not known of this RFC before.

Another example of a content-addressed data store could be OCI registries (more commonly known as container image registries). Using them to store arbitrary artefacts is quite well supported now: https://oras.land/

See https://oras.land/

> ... but still only supports one niche operating system.

1. Linux is not a niche in the target market for this project.

2. The project is written in Common Lisp with hard dependencies on SBCL-provided libraries[1], so there's reason to suspect it should work on other OSes supported by SBCL.

3. Sure, the presence of Makefile and sb-posix imply it requires a POSIX compliant OS, but Linux is not the only one that fits the bill.

4. The included Linux-only binary 'oras' is clearly a vendored artifact, not part of this project, and clearly an OCI client. A simple search shows it is indeed cross-platform[2].

Perhaps you should try what almost every Linux user has had to do when encountering software actually built for only one "niche" operating system that they want to use on their OS: look.

1. https://github.com/ocicl/ocicl/blob/170aff0/ocicl.asd#L34

2. https://github.com/oras-project/oras/releases

oras isn't that unpopular, Helm is using it as an SDK for example. Here are other projects who are using it. https://github.com/oras-project/oras/network/dependents

cat << EOF wget \ https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/releases/download/v2.9.4/\ harbor-offline-installer-v2.9.4.tgz EOF

Now that you know a little more about Cosign, Notary, and DCT, we will take it one step further by using one of these tools: Cosign. For this example, we will use the simple Docker registry:2 reference image to run a simple registry. In a real-world scenario, a managed registry such as Harbor, Amazon ECR, Docker Hub, etc.

Have a look at harbor, you can also use it to follow the same methods for helm charts etc.

Or for something more advanced https://goharbor.io/

Look at https://goharbor.io/

You can host your own image repo if your feeling feisty. Harbor is a graduated project from the CNCF and they are also working on a new implementation called Dragonfly. https://goharbor.io/

Does anybody know whether there could be something like an open/libre container registry?

Maybe the cloud native foundation or the linux foundation could provide something like this to prevent vendor lock-ins?

I was coincidentially trying out harbor again over the last days, and it seems nice as a managed or self-hosted alternative. [1] after some discussions we probably gonna go with that, because we want to prevent another potential lock-in with sonarpoint's nexus.

Does anybody have similar migration plans?

[1] https://goharbor.io

2) Harbor instance registry