Install Harbor on Kubernetes with Helm (2026 Guide)

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Harbor is an open-source container registry with role-based access control, vulnerability scanning with Trivy, replication and image signature verification. This guide deploys it on Kubernetes with the official Helm chart, using values that work with the current chart (v1.19.x, Harbor v2.15.x at the time of this update).

Harbor Redis Crashlooping

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:21:00 -0500

My Harbor server went offline when I patched one of my RKE2 clusters, which caused pods to go into ImagePullBackoff. Within a few minutes, I noticed that Redis was crashlooping with the following error:

bash
mmattox@a1ubthorp01:~/$ kubectl -n harbor logs -f harbor-redis-0
1:C 12 Jul 2022 23:15:36.208 # oO0OoO0OoO0Oo Redis is starting oO0OoO0OoO0Oo
1:C 12 Jul 2022 23:15:36.208 # Redis version=6.0.16, bits=64, commit=00000000, modified=0, pid=1, just started
1:C 12 Jul 2022 23:15:36.208 # Configuration loaded
 _._ 
 _.-``__ ''-._ 
 _.-`` `. `_. ''-._ Redis 6.0.16 (00000000/0) 64 bit
 .-`` .-```. ```\/ _.,_ ''-._ 
 ( ' , .-` | `, ) Running in standalone mode
 |`-._`-...-` __...-.``-._|'` _.-'| Port: 6379
 | `-._ `._ / _.-' | PID: 1
 `-._ `-._ `-./ _.-' _.-' 
 |`-._`-._ `-.__.-' _.-'_.-'| 
 | `-._`-._ _.-'_.-' | http://redis.io 
 `-._ `-._`-.__.-'_.-' _.-' 
 |`-._`-._ `-.__.-' _.-'_.-'| 
 | `-._`-._ _.-'_.-' | 
 `-._ `-._`-.__.-'_.-' _.-' 
 `-._ `-.__.-' _.-' 
 `-._ _.-' 
 `-.__.-' 

1:M 12 Jul 2022 23:15:36.210 # Server initialized
1:M 12 Jul 2022 23:15:36.210 # Can't handle RDB format version 10
1:M 12 Jul 2022 23:15:36.210 # Fatal error loading the DB: Invalid argument. Exiting.
mmattox@a1ubthorp01:~/$

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