The JFrog Artifactory integration with VCS allows you to manage binaries in Artifactory. VCS is an open-source platform that enables you to automate IT processes, including provisioning, application deployment, orchestration, and other related tasks. For more information, see VCS documentation.
As a Binary Repository Manager, Artifactory completes the picture by providing an easy, safe, and secure way to consume binaries that are derived from source code, and Artifactory’s VCS repositories are specifically designed to proxy and cache these binaries (such as tarballs) from a Git provider.
Using VCS with Artifactory provides the following benefits:
The ability to list all the tags and branches of any VCS repository.
Access to remote VCS repositories, including cloud providers like GitHub (https://github.com) and Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.org) , and self-hosted solutions like GitHub Enterprise Server and Bitbucket Server, through Remote Repositories, which provide the usual proxy and caching functionality.
On-demand local caching of tags and branches for later use in case of network instability or hosted VCS service downtime.
The ability to assign access privileges according to projects or development teams.