add blog Recap post about Harbor in Chicago. (#516)

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+title: "Harbor Recap from KubeCon Chicago 2023"
+author:
+name: "Vadim Bauer"
+description: "Our impressions and takeaways from the KubeCon in Chicago"
+date: 2023-12-04T12:00:00+04:00
+showPageInfo: true
+---
+
+{{< figure caption="The Harbor Team at KubeCon" src="/img/blog/harbor-team-kubecon-2023.jpeg" alt="The Harbor Team at KubeCon" loading="lazy">}}
+
+This year's North America edition of the KubeCon took place in Chicago. What a
+beautiful city and great location for the KubeCon.
+
+From 5th to 9th November, people all over the world came together to talk and
+discuss the future and direction of the Cloud Native ecosystem with various CNCF
+projects and Kubernetes.
+
+The Harbor team with [Yan Wang](https://twitter.com/wy65701436), [Vadim Bauer](https://twitter.com/vad1mo) and [Orlin Vasilev](https://twitter.com/OrlinVasilev)  
+were also present at KubeCon with a maintainers track, a booth, and a community meeting.
+
+Due to those various duties, we were unable to attend many sessions; however, we
+attended a few keynote sessions and, more importantly, had many great
+discussions Harbor users at our booth. This gave us a good idea of what our
+users and the community has to say about Harbor.
+
+Here are some unsorted notable notes we have been discussing with people.
+
+- Using Harbor to store other types of artifacts.
+  We have been brainstorming about that idea with the maintainers. One idea
+  would be to introduce a pluggable proxy interface where different extensions
+  for Harbor could be created. It would be similar
+  to  https://github.com/container-registry/helm-charts-oci-proxy. On one side,
+  the user-facing interface would comply with that of the particular artifact
+  spec (eg. NPN, Maven, PyPy) and would translate them to OCI artifacts with the
+  right manifests and immutability policies.
+- How to set up a true multi-regional Harbor container registry.
+- Distributing container images to the EDGE location.
+- More fine-grained permission control for users, similar to the upcoming robot
+  accounts.
+
+## Harbor at KubeCon Chicago
+
+Of course, there have been a few talks about Container Registries and Harbor in
+particular.
+
+My Kickoff as a speaker at the KubeCon 2023 started with a lightning talk about
+[Dynamically Proxying Helm Charts as OCI Artifacts](https://kccncna2023.sched.com/event/1R2lk/cl-lightning-talk-dynamically-proxy-helm-charts-as-oci-artifacts-vadim-bauer-8gears-container-registry).
+
+{{< youtube id="y6aSsQY-cXM" title="KubeCon 2023 NA – Lightning Talk: Dynamically Proxy Helm Charts as OCI Artifacts - Vadim Bauer" >}}
+
+[The second talk](https://kccncna2023.sched.com/event/1R2sU/whats-new-in-harbor-and-how-can-you-make-harbor-even-better-yan-wang-vmware-vadim-bauer-8gears-container-registry)
+together with Wang Yang and me was about Harbor new features and the Harbor
+superpowers for different user groups like Ops, CISOs, and developers
+appreciate the most.
+
+In details, I was talking about:
+
+1. How Harbor works well for small Teams and Enterprises at the same time!
+2. How Harbor makes CISOs happy!
+  1. Because all organizational images are in one place with Replication and Proxying.
+  2. Because CISOs get an overview of all the image vulnerabilities in one place.
+  3. Because audit trails help to reconstruct who did what.
+3. Why Harbor is OPs people's darling!
+  1. Automation & IaC – RESTful API, Terraform, Pulumi
+  2. Operational control mechanisms – GC, Quota, Polices
+
+The Second part of the talk was about the new features of Harbor, that will be
+introduced in version 2.10
+
+- Robot Accounts with more customizable and fine-grained permission sets.
+- Software Bill of Material (SBOM) for Harbor will provide a list with that
+  enumerates the components, dependencies, and their versions within a container
+  image, serving the purpose of enhancing transparency, traceability, and
+  security in software supply chains.
+
+{{< youtube id="1QWy2zO0gBY" title="KubeCon 2023 NA – What’s New in Harbor, and  How Can You Make Harbor Even Better? - Yan Wang & Vadim Bauer" >}}
+
+
+## Notable Mentions of Harbor and Registry Related Topics
+
+Below are some interesting talks that are related to Harbor or deal with Container Artifact management.
+
+### Tutorial: Cloud Native Essentials: A 101 Tutorial to Start Your Cloud Native Journey - Rey Lejano, SUSE & Eamon Bauman, Red Hat
+
+[This 90-minute tutorial](https://kccncna2023.sched.com/event/1R2nY/tutorial-cloud-native-essentials-a-101-tutorial-to-start-your-cloud-native-journey-rey-lejano-suse-eamon-bauman-red-hat)
+is an introduction to various CNCF graduated projects,
+simplifying the often challenging process of self-learning about cloud native
+projects. The tutorial covers the installation, setup, and usage of key tools
+such as containerd, Kubernetes, Harbor for container registry, Helm for
+application deployment, Prometheus for monitoring, Fluentd for logging, and Open
+Policy Agent/Gatekeeper for admission control.
+
+{{< youtube id="0RJBYVyHB3Q" title="Tutorial: Cloud Native Essentials: A 101 Tutorial to Start Your Cloud Native Journey - Rey Lejano, SUSE & Eamon Bauman, Red Hat" >}}
+
+### Mastering LLM Delivery in Private Clouds: A Journey to Seamless Deployments with Kubernetes and OCI - Autumn Moulder & Marwan Ahmed, Cohere
+[This talk](https://kccncna2023.sched.com/event/1R2qX/mastering-llm-delivery-in-private-clouds-a-journey-to-seamless-deployments-with-kubernetes-and-oci-autumn-moulder-marwan-ahmed-cohere)
+explores simplifying Large Language Model (LLM) deployments using
+Kubernetes and OCI artifacts. It addresses data governance and security
+challenges, emphasizes Kubernetes for a portable inference stack, and highlights
+OCI's efficiency gains by reducing storage, enhancing download speed, and
+minimizing governance overhead. Learn how to leverage Kubernetes and OCI in your
+MLOps journey.
+
+{{< youtube id="y9lPk-oKZIA" title="Mastering LLM Delivery in Private Clouds: A Journey to Seamless Deployments with Kubernetes and OCI - Autumn Moulder & Marwan Ahmed, Cohere" >}}
+
+
+### Flux 2.0 and Beyond: Amplifying GitOps with OCI and Cosign - Kingdon Barrett & Sanskar Jaiswal
+[In this session](https://kccncna2023.sched.com/event/1R2rK/flux-20-and-beyond-amplifying-gitops-with-oci-and-cosign-kingdon-barrett-sanskar-jaiswal-weaveworks),
+Sanskar and Kingdon will discuss deploying Helm applications
+securely across different environments using Flux and the Open Container
+Initiative (OCI). They will showcase a production scenario with a promotion
+pipeline utilizing GitHub Actions, approvals, keyless signatures with Cosign,
+and ambient credentials based on environments. The session emphasizes the
+benefits of using OCI registries for Helm charts over HTTP registries. The
+conclusion will touch on the future direction of Flux and how OCI is influencing
+the future of CI/CD.
+
+{{< youtube id="pO2-Kgbkziw" title="Flux 2.0 and Beyond: Amplifying GitOps with OCI and Cosign - Kingdon Barrett & Sanskar Jaiswal" >}}
+
+## Closing Words
+
+KubeCon North America in Chicago once again proved to be a vibrant hub for the
+cloud-native ecosystem. Harbor's presence and the many positive reactions and
+congratulations are proof that the project is meeting the needs of users.
+
+[Vadim Bauer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vadim-bauer/)  
+Harbor Team
+
+
+
+{{< figure caption="Orlin & Vadim Pointing at a Lighthouse" src="/img/blog/orlin-and-vadim-pointing-to-a-lighthouse.jpeg" alt="Orlin & Vadim Pointing at a Lighthouse" loading="lazy">}}
+