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GitLab CI and Artifactory: On Your Mark, Get Set, Build!

GitLab CI and Artifactory: On Your Mark, Get Set, Build!

Note: This blog post was updated on Sept 20, 2022. Integrating GitLab CI pipelines with the JFrog Platform makes your software release fast and secure a reality. This blog post describes how to integrate GitLab CI with Artifactory and Xray, in order to make sure any artifact deployed, is properly managed and protected from any…
Master Your Helm Chart Repositories in Artifactory

Master Your Helm Chart Repositories in Artifactory

Following our initial release of Helm Chart repository support in Artifactory a few weeks ago, it's time to leap into the fast track and get your Helm repositories up and running. Just a short recap, Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes and helps you manage Kubernetes applications using Helm Charts. Artifactory now natively supports Helm…
A Journey Into Modern DevOps and Continuous Integration in C and C++ Projects

A Journey Into Modern DevOps and Continuous Integration in C and C++ Projects

  C and C++ continue to be used and favored by many developers in all industries. However, when compared to other languages, C/C++ developers face greater challenges that include: long build times, diverse platforms and ecosystems, different build systems, binary compatibility, code inlining and embedding, and lack of standard for OSS. This featured DevOps.com article…
Your Safe Repositories Just Got Safer with SHA-256

Your Safe Repositories Just Got Safer with SHA-256

Artifactory was uniquely designed from the ground-up to optimally manage binaries with the capability to efficiently support packages in any format. One of the key features enabling this flexibility is Checksum-Based Storage. While all artifact files are stored and managed in one of the several options for binary storage supported by Artifactory, the files’ metadata,…
JFrog Artifactory Cloud Wins the Repository Challenge

JFrog Artifactory Cloud Wins the Repository Challenge

Exactly one year ago, we launched our joint initiative with Google offering JFrog Artifactory Cloud hosted on Google Cloud Platform for free for selected open source projects. Since then, dozens of projects have been approved, and with the free open source hosting provided by JFrog and Google, are now able to put their efforts towards serving…
Use File Specs in your CI/CD To Get Full Control of Your Artifacts

Use File Specs in your CI/CD To Get Full Control of Your Artifacts

Getting creative with how you manage your artifacts in JFrog Artifactory? It's time to get familiar with File Specs. File specs allow you to specify the files you want to upload and download to and from Artifactory with a simple configuration. With only 2 mandatory fields, source (referred to as pattern) and target, you can…
Monitoring and Optimizing Artifactory Performance

Monitoring and Optimizing Artifactory Performance

As Artifactory usage increases, its resources can gradually become depleted, causing hiccups or hits in performance. When usage increases, so does the importance of monitoring your system and its historical data. Monitoring usage patterns is an essential first step to optimizing Artifactory and ensuring its stability. Here, we would like to share with you some…
Clean Up Your Git LFS Repositories with JFrog CLI

Clean Up Your Git LFS Repositories with JFrog CLI

Git has become an industry standard for source code control. However, it is not designed to store binary files efficiently, and storing large binary files in a Git repository can quickly inflate it, making it sluggish to respond. This is where Git LFS comes into play. Git LFS is a Git extension designed to accommodate…
Don’t Let the Maven Deploy Plugin Trip You Up

Don’t Let the Maven Deploy Plugin Trip You Up

Apache Maven is a commonly used build tool. It has many cool features such as default processing steps that are included out of the box, and is particularly good for compiling and packaging Java code. But this blog post is not an introduction to Maven. There are plenty of great books that provide that, and…
Why OpenMRS Migrated from Sonatype Nexus to JFrog Artifactory and Bintray

Why OpenMRS Migrated from Sonatype Nexus to JFrog Artifactory and Bintray

  UPDATE: As of May 1, 2021 Bintray services will no longer be available (ConanCenter and JCenter are not affected) for more information read the Centers Deprecation Blog   OpenMRS, the collaborative open source project to develop software that supports the delivery of healthcare in developing countries, recently announced that they have migrated from using…