Install Artifactory single node on Windows

JFrog Installation & Setup Documentation
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Before you proceed with the installation, review the system requirements.

Artifactory System Requirements
Operating Systems and Platform Support

The following table lists the supported operating systems and the versions.

Product

Debian

RHEL

Ubuntu

Amazon Linux

Windows Server

Artifactory

10.x, 11.x

8.x, 9.x

20.04, 22.04

Amazon Linux 2023

2016 or 2019

Supported Platforms

The following table lists the supported platforms.

Product

x86-64

ARM64

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Artifactory

1.19+

4.13+

Installation on Kubernetes environments is through Helm Charts. Supported Helm version is Helm 3+.

Kubernetes Sizing Requirements

We have included YAML files with different sizing configurations for Artifactory , Xray, and Distribution in our GitHub pages. You can use these YAML files when you set up your cluster.

ARM64 Support

Starting from version 7.41.4, Artifactory supports installation on ARM64 architecture through Helm and Docker installations. You must set up an external database as the Artifactory database since Artifactory does not support the bundled database with the ARM64 installation. Artifactory installation pulls the ARM64 image automatically when you run the Helm or Docker installation on the ARM64 platform.

ARM64 support is also available for Xray, Distribution and Insight.

Artifactory Database Requirements

Artifactory supports the following databases:

  • PostgreSQL

    Tip

    JFrog highly recommends using PostgreSQL for all products in the JFrog Platform. For more information, see Choose the right database.

  • Oracle

  • MySQL

  • Microsoft SQL Server

  • MariaDB

Artifactory HA requires an external database, which is fundamental for the management of binaries and is also used to store cluster wide configuration files.

Since Artifactory HA contains multiple Artifactory cluster nodes, your database must be powerful enough to service all the nodes in the system. Moreover, your database must be able to support the maximum number of connections possible from all the Artifactory cluster nodes in your system.

If you are replicating your database you must ensure that at any given point in time all nodes see a consistent view of the database, regardless of which specific database instance they access. Eventual consistency, and write-behind database synchronization is not supported.

Artifactory Filestore

The filestore is where the binaries are physically stored.

Artifactory provides the following options to store binaries:

  • Local file system stores binaries with redundancy, using a binary provider that manages the synchronization of files between cluster nodes according to the defined redundancy settings.

  • Cloud storage is done using Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Storage.

  • Network File System (NFS)

For more information, see Filestore Configuration.

Binary Storage

While Artifactory can use a Networked File System (NFS) for its binary storage, you should not install the application itself on an NFS. The Artifactory application needs very fast, reliable access to its configuration files. Any latency from an NFS will result in poor performance when the application fails to read these files. Therefore, install Artifactory on a local disk mounted directly to the host.

To use an NFS to store binaries, use the file-system binarystore.xml configuration with the additional <baseDataDir> setting.

Working with Very Large Storage

In most cases, our recommendation for storage is at least 3 times the total size of stored artifacts, in order to accommodate system backups.Backups

However, when working with a very large volume of artifacts, the recommendation may vary greatly according to the specific setup of your system. Therefore, when working with over 10 TB of stored artifacts, contact JFrog support, who will work with you to provide a recommendation for storage that is customized to your specific setup.

Allocated storage space may vary

Xray downloads and then deletes fetched artifacts after indexing. However, in order to have more parallel indexing processes, and thereby more temporary files at the same time would require more space.

This is especially applicable for large BLOBs such as Docker images.

Artifactory Network Ports

Artifactory uses external network ports to communicate with services outside Artifactory and internal network ports to communicate with Artifactory and other JFrog Platform microservices.

External Network Ports

Artifactory uses the following external network ports by default:

  • 8081

  • 8082

Internal Network Ports

Artifactory uses the following internal network ports.

Microservice

Port

Artifactory

HTTP: 8081, 8091

Access

HTTP: 8040, 8015

gRPC: 8045, 8016

Frontend

HTTP: 8070

Metadata

HTTP: 8086

Router

HTTP: 8082, 8046, 8049

gRPC: 8047

Event

HTTP:8061

gRPC: 8062

JFConnect

HTTP: 8030

gRPC: 8035

Observability

HTTP: 8036

gRPC: 8037

Mission Control

HTTP: 8080

Installation Steps

Follow these steps to install the product:

  1. Download Artifactory .

    For example, download command for Artifactory Pro:

    wget https://releases.jfrog.io/artifactory/artifactory-pro/org/artifactory/pro/jfrog-artifactory-pro/[RELEASE]/jfrog-artifactory-pro-[RELEASE]-windows.zip

  2. Create a JFrog Home directory and move the downloaded installer archive into that directory, for example:

    mkdir jfrog
move jfrog-artifactory-<pro|oss|cpp-ce>-<version>-windows.zip jfrog
cd jfrog

  3. Set the path to JFrog Home directory as an environment variable called JFROG_HOME.

    set JFROG_HOME=<full path of the jfrog directory>

#Example
set JFROG_HOME=C:\myapps\jfrog

  4. Extract the contents of the compressed archive and go to the extracted folder.

    # Extract jfrog-artifactory-<pro|oss|cpp-ce>-<version>-windows.zip into jfrog folder
move artifactory-<pro|oss|cpp-ce>-<version> artifactory

  5. Install Artifactory manually or as a service.

    Manual Installation

    Browse to %JFROG_HOME%\artifactory\app\bin and execute the file artifactory.bat.

    Security settings

    Depending on the security settings under Windows, you might need to run artifactory.bat using 'Run as administrator'

    Service Installation

    Browse to %JFROG_HOME%\artifactory\app\bin, and execute the file InstallService.bat.

    Security

    Windows 8 implements strict User Account Control (UAC). You must either disable UAC or right-click on cmd.exe and select "Run as administrator" in order to run this script.

    Firewall Alerts for first time Artifactory Windows Installation

    When starting Artifactory, you may get some firewall exception messages. Please select private networks and allow access to continue working.

  6. Configure a connection to the database (mandatory).

  7. Customize the product configuration (optional) including Java Opts, and filestore.

  8. Manage Artifactory using the following commands, in a Command Prompt window.

    sc start|stop|query artifactory

  9. Check Artifactory Log in the %JFROG_HOME%\artifactory\var\log\artifactory-service.log file.

Artifactory Product Configuration

After installing and before running Artifactory, you may set the following configurations:

  • System YAML Configuration File

    Where to find system.yaml?

    You can configure all your system settings using the system.yaml file located in the $JFROG_HOME /artifactory/var/etc folder. For more information, see Artifactory YAML Configuration.

    If you don't have a System YAML file in your folder, copy the template available in the folder and name it system.yaml.

    For the Helm charts, the system.yaml file is managed in the chart’s values.yaml.

  • Configuring Database

    If you're planning to use it in production, it is highly recommended to first Configure the Database, and then start Artifactory.

  • Customize Java Opts (optional)

    Remember to modify your JVM Parameters as needed by setting JAVA_OPTIONS in Shared Configurations. The property to pass extra Java opts is artifactory.extraJavaOpts. It is highly recommended to set your Java memory parameters as follows:

    Tip

    The larger your repository or number of concurrent users, the larger you need to make the -Xms and -Xmx values accordingly. If you can reserve at least 512MB for Artifactory, the recommended minimal values are:

    -server -Xms512m -Xmx2g -Xss256k -XX:+UseG1GC

    For more recommendations about your hardware configuration (especially the -Xmx parameter), see System Requirements

  • Additional Settings

    These include: customizing ports, joinKey (join.key), masterKey (master.key).

  • Configuring the Filestore

    By default, Artifactory is configured to use the local file system as its filestore. Artifactory supports a variety of additional filestore configurations to meet a variety of needs for binary storage providers, storage size and redundancy.

Enable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for Connectivity with Older Databases

Artifactory version 7.25.2 onwards includes OpenJDK version 11.0.11 and later. TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 are disabled by default from OpenJDK 11.0.11 onwards. If your database version does not support TLS 1.2, the Artifactory startup fails.

If you are unable to upgrade your database to a version that supports TLS 1.2 or later, perform the following steps to run Artifactory.

  1. Download the java.security file that has TLS 1.0 and 1.1 enabled.

  2. Create the directory, ${JFROG_HOME}/artifactory/var/bootstrap/artifactory/java.

  3. Copy the java.security file into ${JFROG_HOME}/artifactory/var/bootstrap/artifactory/java.

  4. Provide the appropriate permissions to the directory.

    Note

    Artifactory startup takes a backup of the existing java.security file and bootstraps custom java.security into the ${JFROG_HOME}/artifactory/app/third-party/java/conf/security folder.

Configure Java Security File for Helm Installations

  1. Create the following local directory.

    mkdir -p java/configmap

  2. Download the java.security file that has TLS 1.0 and 1.1 enabled.

  3. Copy the java.security file to java/configmap.

  4. Run the following command to create a custom config map. For more information, see Using Config Maps.

    kubectl create configmap java-security-config --from-file=java/configmap/java.security

  5. Pass the following custom config map to your Helm install. For more information, see Using Config Maps.

    artifactory:
  preStartCommand: "mkdir -p /opt/jfrog/artifactory/var/bootstrap/artifactory/java && cp -Lrf /tmp/java/* /opt/jfrog/artifactory/var/bootstrap/artifactory/java/"
  customVolumes: |
   - name: java-security-config
     configMap:
       name: java-security-config
  customVolumeMounts: |
    - name: java-security-config
      mountPath: /tmp/java/java.security
      subPath: java.security