JFrog Artifactory
JFrog Artifactory is a universal artifact repository manager supporting all major package formats and build tools including Maven, Gradle, npm, NuGet, PyPI, Docker, Helm, RubyGems, CocoaPods, and more. As the central hub of the JFrog Platform, Artifactory stores, manages, and distributes binary artifacts across the entire software development lifecycle. It integrates with CI/CD pipelines through native plugins for Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and other tools. Artifactory provides comprehensive REST APIs for managing repositories, artifacts, builds, security, and system configuration programmatically.
APIs
Artifactory REST API
Comprehensive REST API for managing artifacts, repositories, users, groups, permissions, replication, security, and system configuration in JFrog Artifactory.
Artifactory Query Language (AQL) API
Advanced search API using a SQL-like query language (AQL) for finding artifacts, builds, modules, and entries based on properties, statistics, and metadata.
Artifactory Docker Registry API
Docker Registry v2 API for pushing, pulling, and managing Docker images stored in JFrog Artifactory acting as a Docker registry.
Artifactory Build Integration API
API for publishing and managing build information from CI/CD systems, enabling traceability between artifact versions and the builds that produced them.
Features
Single repository manager supporting 30+ package formats including Maven, npm, NuGet, PyPI, Docker, Helm, Conda, Conan, and more.
Rich metadata tagging and AQL query language for finding artifacts based on properties, statistics, dates, and custom attributes.
Native CI/CD integration publishing build information to track which artifacts were produced by which build, enabling full artifact traceability.
Fine-grained permission targets, LDAP/SAML/SSO integration, API key management, and access tokens for secure artifact access control.
Push and pull replication across multiple Artifactory instances for geo-distributed teams and disaster recovery.
Full Docker Registry v2 API compliance for pushing, pulling, and managing Docker images with automated vulnerability scanning.
Use Cases
Development teams integrate Artifactory with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and other CI/CD tools to store, version, and distribute build artifacts.
Platform engineering teams use Artifactory as an enterprise Docker registry with security scanning, access controls, and promotion workflows.
Organizations proxy public package registries (npm, PyPI, Maven Central) through Artifactory to cache dependencies, apply security policies, and ensure build reproducibility.
Release engineers promote artifacts through staging environments using build promotion, managing the lifecycle from snapshot to release.
Integrations
Official Jenkins Artifactory Plugin for publishing artifacts and build information from Jenkins pipelines.
JFrog GitHub Actions for integrating Artifactory into GitHub CI/CD workflows.
Deep integration with JFrog Xray for continuous security and compliance scanning of artifacts and dependencies.
Native integration with JFrog Pipelines for end-to-end CI/CD orchestration using Artifactory as the artifact store.