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JFrog, Proud Partners in DevOpsExpress

JFrog, Proud Partners in DevOpsExpress

DevOps has become one of the hottest buzzwords to hit the software industry. Everybody is talking about DevOps, and everybody is supposedly doing DevOps, but there isn’t really a solid definition of DevOps that has caught. Nevertheless, if you look up a few different sources, they all talk about collaboration between developers and IT operations that…
MBeans, MBeans They’re Good For Your Heart

MBeans, MBeans They’re Good For Your Heart

Some of you may have gotten a giggle from the title of this post, remembering that children's song  about beans that many of us would gleefully sing every time one of our friends "let loose". But the truth is, MBeans really are good for your heart, especially if you have to monitor a multitude of…
Repository Log Analytics At Your Fingertips

Repository Log Analytics At Your Fingertips

Friday, late afternoon, and everything seems to be running smoothly. The weekend is just around the corner, so you lean back in your chair and start to plan all the fun you’re going to have. Suddenly, your phone screen lights up. An instant message from your boss that says, “Hey, some of the developers are…
Empowering Azure DevOps /TFS with JFrog Artifactory

Empowering Azure DevOps /TFS with JFrog Artifactory

August 1, 2018: Deprecation Notice The extension described in this blog post has been deprecated and is no longer supported as of August 1, 2018. Instead, you can use the new JFrog Artifactory Extension described in this blog post. For those of you familiar with JFrog Artifactory and its integration with CI servers, you know…
Taking Docker to Production with Confidence

Taking Docker to Production with Confidence

Many organizations developing software today use Docker in one way or another. If you go to any software development or DevOps conference and ask a big crowd of people “Who uses Docker?”, most people in the room will raise their hands. But if you now ask the crowd, “Who uses Docker in production?”, most hands…
Optimizing Repository Security and Performance with Include and Exclude Patterns

Optimizing Repository Security and Performance with Include and Exclude Patterns

Repositories are the building blocks of Artifactory, and there are three basic types: Local repositories are where you store your in-house artifacts; remote repositories proxy remote resources and cache artifacts downloaded from them (e.g. JCenter, Nuget gallery, repositories in other Artifactory instances and others); and virtual repositories aggregate both local and remote repositories under a…
Migrating from Nexus to Artifactory

Migrating from Nexus to Artifactory

Update: July 13, 2021. The nexus2art migrator has been deprecated. Please refer to the JFrog documentation for the new migrating from Sonatype Nexus Repository to Artifactory guide. DEPRECATED: Migrating from Nexus to JFrog Artifactory is very simple by using nexus2art migrator. The migrator provides a user friendly wizard like interface for transferring everything in your…
JFrog Artifactory Vs. Sonatype Nexus    –   The Integration Matrix

JFrog Artifactory Vs. Sonatype Nexus – The Integration Matrix

This blog post was originally published by Shlomi Ben Haim, JFrog CEO, in February 2011, and has now been rewritten by Dror Bereznitsky, JFrog CPO, to reflect the current state of JFrog technology. Last updated on February 2021.   If you’re reading this, you probably Googled “Artifactory vs Nexus”, and are trying to evaluate which…
JFrog CLI (mb)ing to New Heights

JFrog CLI (mb)ing to New Heights

Remember Artifactory CLI? That was the tool we released several months ago to simplify your automation scripts while optimizing upload and download of files to and from Artifactory. Well, after hundreds of downloads and a lot of great feedback we got, we decided “what’s good for Artifactory, is good for Bintray too.” So please meet...…
Use the right tool for the job: Git LFS with Artifactory

Use the right tool for the job: Git LFS with Artifactory

In a recent conversation I had with a developer that works with my wife, who works as the QA Manager for an awesome educational games company, she shared with me a very painful issue that most game developers (probably) share: storing binary assets in Git. This is an issue for everyone in this industry - regardless…