vSphere with Tanzu’s latest updates (v 7.0u2a) introduces some exciting features of using Kubernetes to manage the lifecycle of virtual machines. This has opened up numerous opportunities to modernize existing workloads. The author has covered some of these patterns in another previous article on the same technology. Today, we will dive into another example of deploying a container registry as a VM using VM Operators. Harbor is an automatic choice here as it is included as part of the Tanzu offering from VMware and is also one of the most robust and powerful container registries in the CNCF landscape.