8gears Container Registry vs Django-OCI

8gears Container Registry manages container images and OCI artifacts through a hardened enterprise distribution of Harbor, built and maintained by Harbor project maintainers and contributors. It supports project organization, replication, proxying, quotas and retention policies. Identity options include OIDC, LDAP, SAML 2.0, group synchronization, fine-grained RBAC and workload identity federation. Security features include Trivy vulnerability scanning, content trust and signing, SSL/TLS encryption, and encrypted storage at rest. Teams can use vulnerability overviews, SBOM, audit trails and image policies for supply-chain visibility. It can run as hosted SaaS, on a customer's cloud, or self-hosted on Kubernetes, including on-premise and air-gapped deployments. Managed cloud options include AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Exoscale and StackIT. The free Individuals plan costs nothing and includes 1 GB of storage and unlimited private repositories. Dedicated is billed monthly, with price not displayed, and lists 1000 GB storage. Enterprise pricing is custom.

Django-OCI is free, open-source software for Python developers building registries that follow the OpenContainers Distribution Specification. The Django module exposes API endpoints for pushing, pulling, and interacting with container images, and can run in a virtual environment or within a container-orchestrated registry. Installation is available through pip or a GitHub checkout and includes Django Rest Framework. Filesystem storage is the default option, intended for smaller registries without external cloud storage. Authentication uses a Docker-style OAuth 2.0 flow with username and account-token credentials plus JWT access tokens. Configuration covers URL prefixes, specification version, content types, storage, authentication, token and session expiry, request limits, and manifest-tag deletion. There is no frontend for viewing containers. Private repositories and repository ownership or contributors are not implemented. The project is described as early development, with most goals still under development. Python tests and distribution-spec conformance testing are documented. Developers are asked to consider GDPR compliance, open an issue for help, and review the project license before use.