JFROG ARTIFACTORY: How to Replicate Artifacts Across Sites and Resolve in Artifactory

JFROG ARTIFACTORY: How to Replicate Artifacts Across Sites and Resolve in Artifactory

Option #1

In addition to the usual benefits offered by remote repositories and smart remote repositories, there are several advantages of which you may not be aware. For example, you can configure a smart repository on Site B, which is pointing to a local repository on Site A. 

Option #2

In this functional example, there are two sites, A and B. The idea is to push Docker artifacts to Site A, replicate them on Site B, and then pull the replicated Docker artifacts from Site B.

1. On Artifactory Site B

• Create a local repository, named docker-local, and a virtual repository, named docker. You can also create a remote Docker registry named as docker-remote and add both the local and remote repositories to the virtual docker repository. 

2. On Artifactory Site A

• Create a local, remote, and virtual repositories named as docker-local, docker-remote and docker.
• On docker-local repo of site A, set up your replication to replicate artifacts to docker-local repo of site B.

3. Push to Site A:

Follow the below steps to push the artifacts:

• docker login <site A artifactory server>
• docker tag <docker image id> <site A artifactory server>/docker/<docker image tag>
• docker push <site A artifactory server>/docker/<docker image tag>. For example:

• docker login siteA.com
• docker push siteA.com/docker/nginx
• docker tag c82521676580 siteA.com/docker/nginx

4. The above replication will replicate the docker artifact to site B's 'docker-local' repo which you can pull from the virtual repo 'docker' in site B as following:

• docker login <site B artifactory server>
• docker pull <site B artifactory server>/docker/<docker image tag>. For example:

• docker login siteB.com
• docker pull siteB.com/docker/nginx

 

Published: Feb. 15, 2019

Last updated: Apr.23, 2021

 

Keywords: Docker Replication, Artifactory