What DevOps capabilities does JFrog platform provide?

JFrog platform provides an end-to-end solution to manage and control the flow of your code binaries from build to production.

JFrog platform consists of five products.

JFrog Artifactory - Provides capabilities to manage binaries and artifacts through the application development and delivery process.

JFrog Xray - Provides capabilities to pro-actively identify vulnerabilities in the binaries and artifacts managed by JFrog repository.

JFrog Mission Control - Provides capabilities to manage multiple JFrog platform deployments through a single administrative dashboard.

JFrog Distribution - Provides capabilities for managing release bundles and their distribution process.

JFrog Pipelines - Provides capabilities for end-to-end automation (CI/CD), workflow and tool orchestration.

What is JFrog Artifactory?

JFrog Artifactory is a centralized universal repository that can be used to store different kinds of build binaries, and used across the application development and delivery process - enabling faster delivery cycles.

What are the different kinds of JFrog Repositories?

There are four kinds of JFrog repositories.

1. Local repositories - Local repositories contain artifacts that you upload and manage locally.

2. Remote repositories - Remote repositories contain cached artifacts from public cloud repositories like DockerHub, MVNRepository, NPM repository etc.

3. Virtual repositories - Virtual repository aggregates local and remote repositories into one logical repository.

4. Distribution repositories - Distribution repositories contain artifacts that can be easily moved from Artifactory to bintray, for distribution to end users.

What features does JFrog Repository provide for Automation?

JFrog Artifactory provides three key features to support Automation.

1. Rest APIs - Rest APIs that can be used for various Artifactory tasks such as build automations, artifact deployments, and integration with CI/CD automation tools.

2. JFrog CLI - A command line interface to automate and optimize Artifactory tasks. JFrog CLI internally used the Rest APIs to communicate with Artifactory.

3. Plug-in Framework - Plug-is that provide hooks into the Artifactory and automate tasks such as scheduling tasks, managing downloads and uploads, responding to new builds and artifacts etc.

Built-in Integrations - Integration to CI/CD and build tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo etc.