{"id":764,"date":"2026-02-07T17:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wqrld.net\/blog\/?p=764"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:10:05","slug":"setting-up-a-harbor-proxy-to-help-with-docker-rate-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wqrld.net\/blog\/setting-up-a-harbor-proxy-to-help-with-docker-rate-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up a Harbor proxy to help with docker rate limits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lot of k8s projects have pull=always which quickly makes you reach your ratelimits if any issuers occur. Harbor has a nice proxy cache feature to help with this<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goharbor.io\/docs\/2.14.0\/administration\/configure-proxy-cache\">https:\/\/goharbor.io\/docs\/2.14.0\/administration\/configure-proxy-cache<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem to deal with cert-manager nicely out of the box, so we need to set the annotation manually:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assuming you already have an nginx ingress setup and a clusterissuer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>kubectl create ns harbor<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>helm -n harbor install harby harbor\/harbor  \\\n --set expose.type=ingress   --set expose.ingress.className=nginx   \\\n --set expose.ingress.hosts.core=harbor.mijnbureau.rabevcqhguoovcu.xyz   \\\n --set expose.tls.enabled=true   \\\n --set expose.tls.certSource=secret \\\n --set expose.ingress.annotations.\"cert-manager\\.io\/cluster-issuer\"=letsencrypt-prod \\\n  --set expose.tls.secret.secretName=harby-harbor-ingress<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to the web UI with admin:Harbor12345 and set up an endpoint for dockerhub. Then, create a project and link it to that dockerhub endpoint. Do not forget to change the password for the admin user!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, you can use the proxy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>docker pull harbor.mijnbureau.rabevcqhguoovcu.xyz\/dockerproxy\/node:24<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of k8s projects have pull=always which quickly makes you reach your ratelimits if any issuers occur. Harbor has a nice proxy cache feature to help with this https:\/\/goharbor.io\/docs\/2.14.0\/administration\/configure-proxy-cache It doesn&#8217;t seem to deal with cert-manager nicely out of the box, so we need to set the annotation manually: Assuming you already have an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wqrld.net\/blog\/setting-up-a-harbor-proxy-to-help-with-docker-rate-limits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Setting up a Harbor proxy to help with docker rate limits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wqrld.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wqrld.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wqrld.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wqrld.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wqrld.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wqrld.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/wqrld.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wqrld.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wqrld.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wqrld.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}