Harbor Installation Prerequisites

Harbor is deployed as several Docker containers. You can therefore deploy it on any Linux distribution that supports Docker. The target host requires Docker, and Docker Compose to be installed.

Hardware

The following table lists the minimum and recommended hardware configurations for deploying Harbor.

Resource Minimum Recommended
CPU 2 CPU 4 CPU
Mem 4 GB 8 GB
Disk 40 GB 160 GB

Software

The following table lists the software versions that must be installed on the target host.

Software Version Description
Docker Engine Version 20.10.10-ce+ or higher For installation instructions, see Docker Engine documentation
Docker Compose docker-compose (v1.18.0+) or docker compose v2 (docker-compose-plugin) For installation instructions, see Docker Compose documentation
OpenSSL Latest is preferred Used to generate certificate and keys for Harbor

Network ports

Harbor requires that the following ports be open on the target host.

Port Protocol Description
443 HTTPS Harbor portal and core API accept HTTPS requests on this port. You can change this port in the configuration file.
4443 HTTPS Connections to the Docker Content Trust service for Harbor. You can change this port in the configuration file.
80 HTTP Harbor portal and core API accept HTTP requests on this port. You can change this port in the configuration file.

What to Do Next

Download the Harbor Installer.