Integrate Harbor With Tekton Pipelines

Harbor is an advanced, open-source cloud-native registry that securely manages container images and Helm charts, and also supports a wide range of OCI artifacts. It enforces policies and role-based access control, while ensuring all managed content, including container images and other artifacts, are scanned and certified free from vulnerabilities. For those looking to integrate Harbor into their workflow, the documentation provides comprehensive steps on creating projects and establishing robot accounts. These accounts facilitate automated and secure interactions with the registry, crucial for CI pipelines and enhancing overall security and efficiency in artifact management.

Overview

Harbor integration with Tekton enables the centralized storage of container images within the cluster, eliminating the need for external services. By leveraging Harbor as the container registry, users can manage and store their automation results and reports in one place.

Integration Procedure

The integration process involves two steps:

1. Creating a project to store application images.

2. Creating two service accounts (robot account) with different permissions to push (read/write) and pull (read-only) project images.

Create New Project

The process of creating new projects is the following:

1. Log in to the Harbor console using your credentials.

2. Navigate to the Projects menu, click the New Project button:

   

3. On the New Project menu, enter a project name that matches your platform namespace in the Project Name field. Keep other fields as default and click OK to continue:

   

Set Up Robot Account

To facilitate seamless interaction between KubeRocketCI and a Harbor project, it is crucial to establish a robot account. This process involves:

1. Navigate to your newly created project, select Robot Accounts menu and choose New Robot Account:

   

2. In the pop-up window, fill in the fields as follows:

   • Name - edp-push;
   • Expiration time - set the value which is aligned with your organization policy;
   • Description - read/write permissions;
   • Permissions - Pull Repository and Push Repository.

   To proceed, click the ADD button:

   

3. In the appeared window, copy the robot account credentials or click the Export to file button to save the secret and account name locally:

   

4. Provision the kaniko-docker-config secrets using kubectl, UI Portal or with the externalSecrets operator:

   The auth string can be generated by this command:

   echo -n "robot\$edp-project+edp:secret" | base64
   UI Portal

   Navigate to EDP -> Configuration -> Registry. Fill in the required fields and click Save.

   

   Manifests

     apiVersion: v1
     kind: Secret
     metadata:
       name: kaniko-docker-config
       namespace: edp
       labels:
         app.edp.epam.com/secret-type: registry
         app.edp.epam.com/integration-secret: "true"
     type: kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson
     stringData:
       .dockerconfigjson: |
         {
           "auths" : {
             "harbor-registry.com":
               {
                 "username":"registry-username",
                 "password":"registry-password",
                 "auth": "secret-string"
               }
           }
         }

   External Secrets Operator

   "kaniko-docker-config":
     {"auths" : "harbor-registry.com":
       {
         "username":"registry-username",
         "password":"registry-password",
         "auth": "secret-string"
       }
     }

   Navigate to EDP -> Configuration -> Registry. Here, you will observe the Managed by ExternalSecret message:

   

   note

   More details of External Secrets Operator Integration can be found in the External Secrets Operator Integration page.

5. Repeat steps 2-3 with values below:

   • Name - edp-pull;
   • Expiration time - set the value which is aligned with your organization policy;
   • Description - read-only permissions;
   • Permissions - Pull Repository.

6. Provision the regcred secrets using kubectl, EDP Portal or with the externalSecrets operator:

   The auth string can be generated by this command:
   

   echo -n "robot\$edp-project+edp-push:secret" | base64
   UI Portal

   Navigate to EDP -> Configuration -> Registry. Fill in the required fields and click Save.

   

   Manifests

   apiVersion: v1
   kind: Secret
   metadata:
     name: regcred
     namespace: edp
     labels:
       app.edp.epam.com/secret-type: registry
       app.edp.epam.com/integration-secret: "true"
   type: kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson
   stringData:
     .dockerconfigjson: |
       {
         "auths" : {
           "harbor-registry.com":
             {
               "username":"registry-username",
               "password":"registry-password",
               "auth": "secret-string"
             }
         }
       }

   External Secrets Operator

   "regcred":
     {"auths" : "harbor-registry.com":
       {
         "username":"registry-username",
         "password":"registry-password",
         "auth": "secret-string"
       }
     }

   Navigate to EDP -> Configuration -> Registry. Here, you will observe the Managed by ExternalSecret message:

   

   note

   More details of External Secrets Operator Integration can be found in the External Secrets Operator Integration page.

7. In the values.yaml file for the edp-install Helm chart, set the following values for the specified fields:

   Manifests

   If the kaniko-docker-config secret has been created manually:

   values.yaml

   ...
   kaniko:
     existingDockerConfig: "kaniko-docker-config"
   global:
     dockerRegistry:
       url: harbor-registry.com
       type: "harbor"
   ...

   External Secrets Operator

   If the kaniko-docker-config secret has been created via External Secrets Operator:

   values.yaml

   ...
   kaniko:
     existingDockerConfig: "kaniko-docker-config"
   externalSecrets:
     enabled: true
   global:
     dockerRegistry:
       url: harbor-registry.com
       type: "harbor"
   ...

8. (Optional) If you've already deployed the edp-install Helm chart, you can update it using the following command:

   helm update --install edp epamedp/edp-install \
   --values values.yaml \
   --namespace edp

As a result, application images built in UI Portal will be stored in Harbor project and will be deployed from the harbor registry.

Harbor projects can be added and retained with a retention policy generated through the script in edp-cluster-add-ons.

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