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CLI for Harbor container registry. Version 0.0.24 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-07.

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install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install harbor-cli

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#harbor-cli

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ha/harbor-cli/package.nix · source: api.github.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install harbor-cli

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · harbor-cli · source: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%
winget install --id GoHarbor.Harbor -e

Windows Package Manager source index · GoHarbor.Harbor · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

CLI for Harbor container registry

Commands and aliases

  • harbor

history

Project history and usage

Harbor CLI is the command-line companion for Harbor, the CNCF graduated registry used to secure and manage container images and other artifacts. The CLI's history is best understood as part of Harbor's move from a registry server with a web UI and APIs into scriptable cloud-native operations.

Project history

CNCF's Harbor project journey report says Daniel Jiang made Harbor's first commit on 2016-02-01, Harbor joined CNCF on 2018-07-31, and it reached graduated status on 2020-06-23. The Harbor homepage describes the project as an open source registry that secures artifacts with policies, role-based access control, scanning, and signing.

The Harbor CLI repository history begins in April 2023. Its README defines the CLI as an alternative to the Harbor WebUI and as a tool for scripting common repeatable Harbor tasks from a workstation or pipeline.

Adoption history

Harbor's adoption came from enterprise and cloud-native needs around private registries, Kubernetes, Docker image distribution, vulnerability scanning, signing, replication, and policy enforcement. CNCF graduation gave the broader project a clear governance and ecosystem signal.

Harbor CLI adoption follows the automation need: once registry operations are part of CI/CD and platform engineering workflows, a package-manager-installable `harbor` command is easier to script than a browser session.

How it is used

The CLI manages Harbor resources such as projects, repositories, artifacts, labels, tags, quotas, webhooks, robot accounts, users, registries, replication, scanners, schedules, health, and CLI config.

It stores configuration and login-related material under the Harbor CLI config location, with environment variables available for containerized or scripted use.

Why package nerds care

Harbor CLI is package-nerd relevant because it brings a cloud service administration surface into local package managers. A small CLI package becomes the reproducible interface between laptops, CI runners, and Harbor registries.

The package also carries the usual Go CLI concerns: static binaries, shell completion, config paths, credential handling, release artifacts, and platform-specific bottles or packages.

Timeline

  • 2016-02-01: CNCF reports the first Harbor commit.
  • 2018-07-31: Harbor joins CNCF.
  • 2020-06-23: Harbor reaches CNCF graduated status.
  • 2023-04-23: Harbor CLI repository history begins with an initial commit.
  • 2024-10-29: Official git tag history includes v0.0.1-era release pipeline work.

Related projects

  • Related projects include Harbor, Docker Distribution, Kubernetes, Helm, Notary-style signing workflows, vulnerability scanners, OCI artifacts, and CNCF cloud-native tooling.
  • The CLI is also adjacent to API automation and CI/CD systems that need non-interactive registry administration.

security posture

Risk level: orange

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

Risk classifier

orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure

Why

  • infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

Signals

  • text:container

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
$HARBOR_CLI_CONFIG$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/harbor-cli/config.yaml~/.config/harbor-cli/config.yaml

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix
$HARBOR_CLI_CONFIG$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/harbor-cli/config.yaml~/.config/harbor-cli/config.yaml

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
harborcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version0.0.24
manager updated2026-07-07
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.0.24

https://github.com/goharbor/harbor-cli

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:harbor-cli
Version0.0.24
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/harbor-cli
Homepagehttps://github.com/goharbor/harbor-cli
Repositoryhttps://github.com/goharbor/harbor-cli
Upstream docshttps://github.com/goharbor/harbor-cli#readme
LicenseApache-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/goharbor/harbor-cli/archive/refs/tags/v0.0.24.tar.gz
Last updated2026-07-07T16:39:12Z
Pulseupdated
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameharbor-cli
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

harbor-cli

nix profile install nixpkgs#harbor-cli
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Harbor Cli
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ha/harbor-cli/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
zypper95%

harbor-cli 0.0.22-1.1

CLI for the Harbor cloud native registry

https://github.com/harbor/harbor-cli

sudo zypper install harbor-cli
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: harbor-cli
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Harbor Cli
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: harbor-cli from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

harbor-cli-bash-completion 0.0.22-1.1

Bash Completion for harbor-cli

https://github.com/harbor/harbor-cli

sudo zypper install harbor-cli-bash-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Category: System/Shells
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: harbor-cli
  • 2 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Harbor Cli
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: harbor-cli-bash-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

harbor-cli-fish-completion 0.0.22-1.1

Fish Completion for harbor-cli

https://github.com/harbor/harbor-cli

sudo zypper install harbor-cli-fish-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Category: System/Shells
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: harbor-cli
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Harbor Cli
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: harbor-cli-fish-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

harbor-cli-zsh-completion 0.0.22-1.1

Zsh Completion for harbor-cli

https://github.com/harbor/harbor-cli

sudo zypper install harbor-cli-zsh-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Category: System/Shells
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: harbor-cli
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Harbor Cli
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: harbor-cli-zsh-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
winget95%

GoHarbor.Harbor

winget install --id GoHarbor.Harbor -e
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Harbor Cli
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: GoHarbor.Harbor from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
winget92%

IvanCharapanau.Harbor

winget install --id IvanCharapanau.Harbor -e
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Harbor
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: IvanCharapanau.Harbor from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

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  • koShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, containers, go.
  • amazon-ecs-cliShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, containers.
  • ansible-builderShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, containers.
  • colimaShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, containers.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment