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[White Paper] The JFrog Journey to Kubernetes: Best Practices for Taking Your Containers All the Way to Production
February 05, 2019

Kubernetes together with JFrog Artifactory allows you to reliably and predictably deploy your applications, scale them on the fly, seamlessly roll out new features and efficiently utilize hardware resources. This white paper reviews the complexity and the challenges facing companies wanting to adopt Kubernetes as their container orchestration tool. We hope that the lessons learned, …

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Artifactory Backups and Disaster Recovery

Best Practices for Artifactory Backups and Disaster Recovery
February 01, 2019

Whether you have a small JFrog Artifactory instance or a complex cross-region topology, ensuring that your binaries are available at all times is vital to your DevOps pipeline. There are many different approaches to protecting your binaries from disaster, including: System backups, directly from the Artifactory UI or using a 3rd party solution such as …

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Infrastructure as Binaries with Chef and Artifactory: Five Best Practices
April 20, 2017

  Infrastructure as Binaries became a reality several weeks ago when we announced that Artifactory supports infrastructure management platforms such as Chef. Both we, here at JFrog, and our infrastructure champions at Chef, believe that establishing a canonical Artifactory repository for all artifacts used in a company’s infrastructure such as Ruby Gems, NuGet packages, RPMs, …

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4 best practices in repository configuration
June 09, 2015

1. If you are using several technologies, (e.g. Nuget, Maven, NPM, PyPi etc..) define a unique repository for each of them. By doing that you are making sure that all of the build requests are directed to the right place rather than going to a repository that may not even have the necessary packages. 2. …

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Go beyond Java with CI server and Artifactory
May 31, 2012

During the last couple of years, continuous integration (CI) and automated release management methodologies have become much stronger in non-Java builds.Number of familiar tools are used for these methodologies, like the version control system to manages your sources, your build tool to actually build your software from sources and  your build server, which builds your software continuously using …

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Replication! What and How.
June 15, 2012

Update Jul. 24th 2012: As of version 2.6.2  Artifactory also supports event-driven replication. Benefit from all the worlds: pull/push/event-driven!Working in distributed teams isn’t easy. There are time zone differences, language and cultural differences, and… data distribution. When the data you need is away, you are miserable. So, let’s fix it. Bring your data home Let’s take binary …

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Beat the binary repository developer (a.k.a. User Plugins)
November 15, 2012

From our experience with thousands of Artifactory users we know one thing for sure: we don’t know better. Every organization does its ALM differently: artifact approval flow, snapshot retention policies, build-to-release flow, governance, needed metadata and much, much more – they are all different. We definitely have some ideas on how the build and deploy …

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Dependency Management with .NET – Doing it Right
February 06, 2012

The problem of dependency management is neither new nor original, it exists in all development platforms, and .NET is no different. Let’s go through different solutions and see how they perform. I’ll list them here in no particular order. Keeping dependencies in your source control That’s a very popular solution, and for a reason. The …

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Thinking in Gradle!
May 23, 2011

Since my first encounter with Gradle and Hans Dockter (TSSJS 2009 in Las Vegas), I slowly (but surely) started to use this new build tool in many environment and projects.Today, I’m hooked and I don’t think there is a better way to build!But, the main issue I encountered is how to convince other that Gradle is the …

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To Build or Not to Be – Seminar Videos
July 26, 2010

JFrog’s Continuous Integration and Build Seminar “To Build or Not to Be“, took place on July 1st, 2010 and was a big success.The sessions of Kohsuke Kawaguchi creator of Hudson and CEO of InfraDNA, and Hans Dockter creator of Gradle and CEO of Gradle Inc are now available online.Watch now the videos of “Gradle – A Better Way To Build“.and “Doing More with Hudson“   …

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