Harbor Blog

Project Harbor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam The cloud-native community is once again gathering for one of the most anticipated events of the year — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, taking place in the beautiful and dynamic city of Amsterdam, Netherlands. As always, Project Harbor will be proudly represented, bringing the latest innovations in container registry technology, security, and software supply chain management to the global Kubernetes community.

Author: Wenbo Qi(Gaius), Dragonfly/ModelPack Maintainer Chenyu Zhang(Chlins), Harbor/ModelPack Maintainer Feynman Zhou, ORAS Maintainer, CNCF Ambassador Reviewer: Sascha Grunert, CRI-O Maintainer Wei Fu, containerd Maintainer The weight of AI models: Why infrastructure always arrives slowly As AI adoption accelerates across industries, organizations face a critical bottleneck that is often overlooked until it becomes a serious obstacle: reliably managing and distributing large model weight files at scale. A model’s weights serve as the central artifact that bridges both training and inference pipelines — yet the infrastructure surrounding this artifact is frequently an afterthought.