Jfrog Artifactory what is used for

Question

I've a question about Jfrog Artifactory. I don't know for what it is used. Can you explain me this in practical way ? Thanks in advance!

Remark

Answer 1

From the tag description of artifactory:

Artifactory is a binary repository manager for use by build tools (like Maven and Gradle), dependency management tools (like Ivy, NuGet and RubyGems) and build servers (like Jenkins, TeamCity and Bamboo). It comes as downloadable version (OSS, Pro and Enterprise with additional features) and cloud SaaS version.

Simply put it's a self-hosted/on-premise remote location in which you can store Java/Maven dependencies (with the open source version) and various other package types (NPM, rubygems etc) with the pro version

Ancalin

So I can understand it like this -> I put there dependencies which will be always accessible for me ? Sth like a local repository ? – Remark

To a degree yes: you can put artifacts/dependencies there to share them across machines, share them with other devs/teams etc. It is all accessible through web endpoints, and can be configured as your remote repository in gradle/maven. – Ancalin

Answer 2

Artifactory is a package management repository; think of it as a drive for all packages in the world (almost). The advantage of using this is that you don't need to manage all of your npm packages, Maven packages, Docker images, and so on. Artifactory can manage all of these packages for you.

Planter