Replication Setup Step 2: Creating the Replication Settings

How to Migrate Artifacts via Push Replication

AuthorFullName__c
Patrick Russell
articleNumber
000005191
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Salesforce
FirstPublishedDate
2021-12-28T22:21:46Z
lastModifiedDate
2023-06-29
VersionNumber
8
The JFrog CLI offers a "replication-create" action , which requires a Replication Template file. In BASH, you can create these template files by using the repositories.list file and some clever processing tricks.

A] First, configure the JFrog CLI with both "source" and "target" Artifactories:
jfrog config add source #Define the DR Source Artifactory
jfrog config add target #Define the DR Target

B] Generate the Replication template configuration files. The loop below will read each line of the "repositories.list" file and create a template file based on the key:
# The JFrog CLI uses the name "target" and fills in the right URL when replication is configured

cat repositories.list |  while read line 
do   
   #Variable setup
   #Get the repository key, remove "key": from the JSON
   REPO=$(echo $line | cut -d ':' -f 2) 
   REPO_FILENAME=$(echo ${REPO%??} | cut -c 2-) #Get a good looking filename

   #Insert the static default parameters
   echo '{ "enabled": "true","cronExp":"0 0 12 * * ?",' > $REPO_FILENAME-template.json

   #Insert the repository Key
   echo '"repoKey": '$REPO >> $REPO_FILENAME-template.json
 
  #Insert the remaining parameters, note we're replicating to the same repository name
   echo '"serverId": "target", "targetRepoKey": '$REPO' "enableEventReplication":"true" }' >> $REPO_FILENAME-template.json

done


[Expected JSON File Contents]
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After the loop finishes, please check the resulting files. They should all look like the above example image. It's important to double check the templates before we mass-deploy them to the Source to prevent misconfigured settings from being deployed into the Old Artifactory.

C] Run the "replication-create" CLI command on each of the JSON files, this script will do this for you:
jfrog config use source

ls  | while read line
do
     echo "jfrog rt replication-create $line"
     jfrog rt replication-create $line 
done

This will push each template to the Source Artifactory, and at the end all Artifactory's Local Repositories will be configured to push to the Target:

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