JFrog Artifactory

Manages all of our dependencies for all of of our cloud applications. Used for dev, test and production build pipelines.

• In a large company with lots of applications a central repo is critical. Huge timesaver
• Capable of scaling to a super large number of users which is a must in a large company.
• Has the features needed for large companies, such as high security and scalability.

It is one of the excellent repositories that allow integration with Docker and CLI and can be coupled with repositories like Maven, Yum, etc. This allows streamlined collaboration within the team or across teams, which helps faster deployment.

• Easy to manage all kind of repository at a single location
• Manage to store jar and its version
• Collaboration with teams on same projects

• Product functionality and performance
• Breadth of services
• Strong services expertise

Bitbucket and GitLab

GitLab, Bitbucket

JFrog Artifactory is being used as the single binary repository for our entire enterprise. We store everything from application artifacts to Docker images to NPM, Maven, and Python packages as dependencies in [JFrog] Artifactory. It's a mission-critical component of our CICD pipelines.

• Artifact, Package and Helm chart repository hosting.
• Container image registry.
• Integration support with build and CI tools.

• So many times it happens at the time of dependency resolution some of the servers are down e.g NPM, Maven central, PiPy in that cause our builds starts failing. By proxying these repositories with JFrog this is never happened again.
• It reduced the additional cost of container image registry and management effort.
• Support of integration with Build, Monitoring, and CI tools resulted in smooth automation and management.

Sonatype Nexus Platform

We are improving container security with artifacts and enabling deployments on AWS. For production deployments with a pipeline augmentation process and check for any known vulnerabilities when releasing the build. We'll use managed docker pipelines to integrate with pipelines to get the benefits of automatically updating new repository models, pushing container images, and extracting artifacts.

• Faster download times.
• Less corporate proxy load.
• Add protection against known malicious packages.

• Support multiplatform driven artifacts.
• Easy to locate any artifact by name, size and type.

AWS CodeArtifact, Slack, Docker

JFrog Artifactory has been used in my organization primarily as private artifact registry to manage and store application packages, component dependencies, application libraries, Docker containers and images, and Helm charts. As a business usecase, the product has been integrated in our Azure Devops CI/CD pipeline which means the docker images are scanned and pulled in from the artifact registry before the images gets eventually deployed from the release pipeline to our Kubernetes cluster, in our case its Openshift. The product can easily integrate with our existing technology stack and thereby overcome the complexity of working with different software package management systems, and hence provides consistency to our Cl/CD process.

• They are highly available and scalable with multi site replication
• Its one of the best to be used as a private container image registry
• It has its own JFrog pipelines which has a full integration and support to provide an end to end CI-CD pipeline

• It has its own mature private registry which not only provides an artificatory management product but also all images are securely scanned along with container security
• It has a integration of its own jfrog pipelines so that it can seamlessly work with the existing technology stack
• It has also very good integration and support with various CI, build and monitoring tools

JFrog Pipelines (formerly Shippable) and JFrog Xray

GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Services (formerly VSTS)