Artifact management

In the DevOps process, Artifact Management generally refers to the activities around storing and managing assets that are produced during the continuous integration process. Depending upon the development language, an “asset” could be any number of things:

Library jar file
NPM package
Helm chart
etc

Besides the contents of the asset, many of those types of artifacts also involve a particular protocol for how they are shared and consumed (e.g. maven repository for jar libraries).

Note: While container images are closely related to the other artifacts listed above, we feel the practices and tools around managing images is distinct enough that the Image Registry warrents its own treatment.

There are a number of tools available to handle manage artifacts, from roll-your-own file systems to enterprise-grade software. Currently the Cloud-Native Toolkit supports provisioning the following Artifact Management tools:

Artifactory
Nexus

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