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Questions tagged [artifacts]

For questions about artifacts, which are the products of some process applied to a code repository.

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What is an artifactory?

There are quite some questions and answers that mention "artifactory". I wouldn't be surprised if it is somehow related to artifacts. My questions: What is actually an "artifactory" (in the context of DevOps)? Why are artifactories used?
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What is an artifact repository?

What is an artifact repository? If it's just a place to store files, can't I just use a source control system?
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What is an artifact (or artefact)?

The question about "What is an artifact repository?" contains an answer with an interesting explanation about the repository part of it. And from reading the entire answer, I am not sure what exactly an "artifact" means in the context of DevOps. Any…
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Are there any drawbacks of using a deb package as if it was a container to deploy an application?

My team is currently trying to decide if we should deploy our Nodejs app as a deb package instead of trying to run it in a container such as Docker. I got this idea from reading this blog here which makes some good arguments for using a deb package…
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Single Build with Multiple Artifacts

I'm a little confused on the Azure Pipeline steps. My solutions has many projects and one UI project that contains both an ASP.Net-Core WebApi/MVC with Angular. the Build Solution builds similar to the steps: - task: VSBuild@1 displayName: 'Build…
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What are reasons for not not using Bitbucket-server for storing artifacts?

I'm working with a company setting up a brand new project, and we're talking about what tools to use for what. I was talking about Artifactory or Nexus for storing built artifacts (APKs in this case), and they asked why they can't just use Bitbucket…
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Artifactory vs Git for Infrastructure Version Control / Configuration Management

I'm trying to understand the difference between managing configuration files for the purposes of simplifying automated deployment. We have 5 environments to build. So far 2 have been built with no versioning at all. Right now we're using Artifactory…
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JFrog Artifactory or JFrog Bintray , when to use one over the other?

We are actually looking for a package management system for our project. The target is simple, have a centralized system to keep our packages ( apps and middlewares ) and use them with our CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Docker ...) Looking for…
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What is the difference between packages and artifacts?

I would like to understand the difference between package and artifact. Also In what context we should use these terms.
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Jenkins Artifactory plugin not downloading in multi-thread

In my company we're having a bad time trying to download with the Artifactory plugin in Jenkins because we have a lot of tiny files in our repository and apparently the plugin works in a single thread, so it takes a REALLY long time. We tested the…
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Is artifact promotion in this pipeline correct?

I have been tasked with rebuilding my DevOps pipeline and I need some help with a few parts. We will have our code in BitBucket and have something trigger a server to spin up and validate our PR's. I don't fully understand how to do this at the…
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Where does TFS 2017 actually store artifacts?

We had been using a TFS build process that copies build output to some fileshare for later use. But with TFS 2017 we want to use that fancy "Publish Artifacts" build stage that has the TFS server provide a .zip file of the artifacts via the RESTful…
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node js deployment on production server

I wanted to know standard process to deploy nodejs app on production. As of now I am following the process as below Pull the source code git pull git_url Install npm dependencies npm install Build the code npm run build run the application nohup…
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What is the meaning of source artifacts that must be in a scripted form?

Quote from rom https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/a-devops6/index.html The key prerequisite to versioning everything is that all source artifacts must be in a scripted form. This goes for the infrastructure, the data, configuration, and the…
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Why should I store artifacts?

Why should I store artifacts? I'm doing it but i don't know if it still make sense. My builds are fairly quick I do git tag versioning None of my builds depends on another. (all independent micro-services) Any compelling reason to keep this…
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