Artifactory

Artifactory is a universal repository manager software. It offers useful features for storing and managing artifacts, binaries, files, containers, packages, and more.

When working on large and complex projects, you often need to manage different libraries, binaries, and other dependencies. Using many tools for different tasks is also an issue. But with Artifactory, you can manage everything in one place.

You have the option to customize metadata, and perform searches and create tags, rules/policies for the metadata.

• It allows you to have control over the entries, advancement, and usability of the binaries. You can also have a detailed record and archives of the binaries.
• There is support for all types of topology such as the dev./deployment and many kinds of environment strategy as well. When needed, you can quickly perform replication. There is also the option to do deduplication of the artifacts which are available 99.999% of the time.
• The software also supports more than 30 types of native integrated packages, including file types. This also includes the capability to use remote and local repositories for each package.
• All your binaries are safe because of many security layers, and authentication technologies like SAML, and LDAP, as well as the mechanisms of SCIM and the OAuth.
• There is the option to do Filestore sharding on top of the ability to use the checksum-based storage, which is great for efficient operations. But you can also use local storage in addition to the database options given by self-hosted and public cloud.
• The CDN/ Distribution Edges help in the quick and safe distribution of binaries to edge destinations.
• There is support for different cloud providers and powerful storing solutions for Kubernetes, Docker, IaC files, Helm Charts, etc.
• You have the option to customize metadata, and perform searches and create tags, rules/policies for the metadata.
• The software also has great integrations with many DevOps tools and gives you the ability to manage and isolate the components depending on different projects.

Artifactory is a good software solution to manage binaries, libraries and dependencies of many projects in a place. It comes with lots of useful features which help in easy management of all your resources. If you are looking for a powerful solution for repository, Artifactory is a great pick.