From version 7.17.4, Artifactory provides Cloud-Native High Availability or Masterless High Availability. All nodes in the high availability cluster can perform tasks such as replication, garbage collection, backups, exporting, and importing. Every node in the cluster can serve any of the mentioned tasks and if any node goes down, the different nodes in the cluster will be able to perform these tasks instead. By default, when adding a new node (member) to the cluster, it will be able to perform cluster-wide tasks without user intervention.
The taskAffinity: any attribute is set by default on all the nodes in the cluster when installing an Artifactory version 7.17.4 and above. It is configured under the Nodes section in the Artifactory Configuration YAML. To remove this functionality from a node, set taskAffinity: none.
Backward Compatibility when Upgrading HA Environments
To maintain backward compatibility, when upgrading to Artifactory 7.17.4 from a previous version, the primary: true attribute is maintained.
To use this new functionality, add the taskAffinity: any to each of the nodes in the cluster in the Artifactory System YAML.