Jenkins now offers a new robust solution for release staging and promotion in the form of the Jenkins Artifactory Plugin. This solution is fast, lightweight and works for for BOTH Maven and Gradle builds The Need for a Better Release Alternative If you are using Jenkins (or Hudson, before) then releasing and promoting build artifacts …
Overiew One of the greatest features of Artifactory 2.1 is the support for artifacts staging and promotion. The idea behind this feature is that in many environments, before exposing a new release for public consumption, the release needs to go through a well-known life-cycle – the release is first made available in a staging environment …
I do not care too much about product comparisons coming from product vendors since they are usually biased and written with a single mindset of “how do I make my product look better”. Being labeled with an “I’m nonobjective” sticker from the start, I tend to take them with limited trust.I recently came across a blog …
We are pleased to announce the availability of Artifactory 2.0. Artifactory is an advanced Maven repository manager, offering powerful enterprise features, such as LDAP/Active Directory integration and fine-grained permission control, behind an easy-to-use user interface.With this second major release of Artifactory, Artifactory is 100% configurable via an Ajax web UI and is packed with many enterprise-level …
On Secure LDAP Integration: Avoiding Clear Text Passwords in Maven Settings and Controlling Login FallbackFirst, Some BackgroundOne shortcoming of Maven is that it requires you to store your repository passwords in clear text inside the settings.xml file. Now, this stops being mere annoyance and starts becoming a real security hole once your repository’s authentication is done …
