Thousands of organizations run Harbor in production using it below its capabilities of a modern software supply chain. That gap is your opportunity for consulting engagements, recurring license revenue, and a long-term revenue stream anchored to infrastructure your customers already trust.
8gears Container Registry (8gcr) is the enterprise distribution of CNCF Harbor -- built and maintained by the same team behind the open source project. If your customers run on-premises or sovereign cloud infrastructure and need a production-grade container registry, 8gcr is the commercial vehicle that lets you deliver and monetize that solution.
Cloud-native engineering firms and managed service providers that build and operate Kubernetes platforms for regulated industries, enterprise customers, and public sector organizations.
Direct Access
8gears is run by active Harbor project maintainers and contributors. As a partner, you get direct access to the engineering team, not a support ticket queue. When you bring an opportunity, we show up: technical pre-sales support, architecture reviews, and escalation paths. We are invested in your win because your customer becomes our reference.
Commercial Model
Upstream Harbor has no commercial licensing and no support SLA. 8gcr is the trusted commercial distribution that gives you a product to sell and a vendor to stand behind you.
Regulatory Tailwind
Supply chain security is no longer optional. Regulation is mandating what most Harbor deployments do not yet deliver. That is a structured opportunity with a deadline your customers cannot ignore.
Market Pull
Harbor has over 30,000 GitHub stars, 762 contributing companies, and is running in production at enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions worldwide including CERN. Your customers are not evaluating whether to adopt it. They already have. You are not creating demand, you are monetizing it.
Choose the model that fits how you work with your customers.
Referral
You spot the need. 8gears runs the sale and delivery.
Best for: Engineers and technical leads who identify a need in an existing customer engagement but are not looking to own the delivery.
Implementation Partner
You take the customer from zero to a working software supply chain.
Best for: Cloud-native consultancies and platform engineering firms that deliver and hand off.
Managed Operations Partner
You deploy 8gcr on customer infrastructure and continue to run it on their behalf.
Best for: Managed service providers and platform teams that run infrastructure for customers long-term.
We are selective about who we partner with. Technical depth and customer fit matter more than company size.