Connect Podman to Artifactory

Podman, or the Pod Manager, is a tool for managing, developing, and running OCI images on Linux systems. It is daemonless, which makes it more accessible and less vulnerable to security breaches than other clients. You can configure Podman to work with Artifactory using two methods:

Logged in vs. Anonymous User: You can work with Podman and Artifactory as either a logged-in user, or as an anonymous user without logging in. To work with Artifactory using Anonymous Access, configure that access under Admin | Security | General. For details, refer to Allow Anonymous Access.

Connect Podman to Artifactory Using podman login

Connect Podman to Artifactory Manually

By default, Podman looks for authentication information in ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/containers/auth.json. If no valid credentials are found in the file, Podman falls back to the ~/.docker/config.json file. You can also specify a different authentication file path by using the --authfile flag with your Podman commands.

To manually connect Podman to Artifactory:

Add the following snippet to the ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/containers/auth.json or ~/.docker/config.json file:

{
	"auths": {
		"[JFrogPlatformURL]" : {
			"auth": "<AUTH_TOKEN>",
			"email": "<EMAIL>"
		}
	}
}

Where:

For example:

{
	"auths": {
		"company.jfrog.io" : {
			"auth": "ZGVtb191c2VyOnNhbXBsZV9hdXRoX3Rva2VuXzEyMzQ1QUJDREVGRg==",
			"email": "jeffry@frog.com"
		}
	}
}

Next steps: