Jfrog for Artifact Repository

Introduction

JFrog Artifactory is a universal DevOps solution providing end-to-end automation and management of binaries and artifacts through the application delivery process that improves productivity across your development ecosystem.

It enables freedom of choice supporting 25+ software build packages, all major CI/CD platforms, and DevOps tools you already use. Artifactory is Kubernetes ready supporting containers, Docker, Helm Charts, and is your Kubernetes and Docker registry and comes with full CLI and REST APIs customizable to your ecosystem.

Main Features and Functionality

You can host Artifactory on your own infrastructure, in the Cloud or use the SaaS solution providing maximum flexibility and choice.

Universal Binary Repository Manager

Artifactory offers a universal solution supporting all major package formats including Alpine, Maven, Gradle, Docker, Cargo, Conda, Conan, Debian, Go, Helm, Vagrant, YUM, P2, Ivy, NuGet, PHP, NPM, RubyGems, PyPI, Bower, CocoaPods, GitLFS, Opkg, SBT, Swift, Terraform and more. For more information, see Package Management.

Extensive Metadata

Artifactory provides full metadata for all major package formats for both artifacts and folders. These include metadata that originates with the package itself, custom metadata added by users such as searchable properties and metadata that is automatically generated by tools such as build information and more.

Artifactory as Your Kubernetes Registry

Artifactory allows you to deploy containerized microservices to the Kubernetes cluster as it serves as a universal repository manager for all your CI/CD needs, regardless of where they are running in your organization. Once you check in your App package, you can proceed to propagate and perform the build, test, promote and finally deploy to Kubernetes.

Massively Scalable

Supports a variety of enterprise-scale storage capabilities including S3 Object Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage and Filestore Sharding providing unlimited scalability, disaster recovery, and unmatched stability and reliability. Accommodates large load bursts with no compromise to performance. Increase capacity to any degree with horizontal server scalability to serve any number of concurrent users, build servers and interactions.

Replication

Artifactory’s unique set of replication capabilities ensures locality in any network topology and for any development methodology. Considering the requirements for establishing your specific distributed pipelines and collaboration, you will have several alternatives to choose from. These include both push and pull replication topologies, remote repositories, and different scheduling strategies such as on-demand, on-schedule or event-based replication. For more information, see Replicator.

Advanced CI Server integration with Build Tools

JFrog Artifactory supports build integration whether you are running builds on one of the common CI servers in use today, on cloud-based CI servers or standalone without a CI server. Integration of Artifactory into your build ecosystem provides important information that supports fully reproducible builds through visibility of artifacts deployed, dependencies and information on the build environment.

Artifactory provides visibility into your builds through the metadata it attaches to each artifact. In this way, you can trace your container images back to their source, so you always know what’s in your builds. For more information, see Build Integration.

For Example lets create npm repository

Checkout this website for download and setup repository

Start free trial for artifact repository

Create New remote repository

Select remote repository for you suitable repository

Click Set me up to set npm user configuration

// set npm registry
// create file .npmrc
nano .npmrc

edit file

_auth = YmFiYmFscmFpMzY2QGdtYWlsLmNvbTpjbVZtZEd0dU9qQXhPakUzTWpVMU5UZzVNakk2UkRWS05HRmxNa3RZY1dOd1FUQlRBVGd4YUROeVZUaSSWRmhS
email = email@gmail.com
always-auth = true
registry=https://tesla.jfrog.io/artifactory/api/npm/npm/

Save it and try to create one project

npm init -y
// install package or you can install any package
npm install express
npm publish

publish your package in artifact repository.

you can see artifact in jrog remote repository