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Overview

This section provides a guide on the different ways you can install and configure JFrog Container Registry.

Path Naming Conventions

Please note that the JFrog Container Registry installation and configuration paths and code examples refer to artifactory as JFrog Container Registry runs the core files of JFrog Artifactory.

System Requirements

Before you install JFrog Container Registry please refer to System Requirements for information on supported platforms, supported browsers and other requirements.

Page Contents

 



Installation Steps

The installation procedure involves the following main steps:

  1. Download and extract the package to install (Docker, Helm, Debian or RPM).
  2. Set up the product configurations (optional) including database, Java Opts, and filestore as described in the Setting Up JFrog Container Registry section. 

    The system comes with these basic configuration settings:

    Default Database: JFrog Container Registry comes with an embedded Derby Database out-of-the-box which it is pre-configured to use, however, for better performance and to reuse existing infrastructures you may have, you can configure JFrog Container Registry to work with alternative supported databases. For details please refer to Configuring the Database.

    Default Filestore: By default, JFrog Container Registry is configured to use the local file system as its filestore. JFrog Container Registry supports a variety of additional filestore configurations to meet a variety of needs for binary storage providers, storage size and redundancy. For details, please refer to Configuring the Filestore.

  3. Install the JFrog Container Registry version according to your selected platform:
    1. Installing with Docker
    2. Installing on Kubernetes
    3. Installing on Linux, Solaris or Mac OS
    4. Installing on Windows
  4. Post-Install Steps including changing the default password, as described in the Post-Install section below.

Configuring an HTTP Server (Optional for Docker Registry)

 You can run JFrog Container Registry with one of the supported HTTP servers set up as a front end. For details please refer to Configuring a Reverse Proxy.

Post-Installation Steps

Once the installation is complete.

  1. Change the default admin password.
  2. Access JFrog Container Registry and run the Onboarding Wizard.
  3. Continue to configure the system using the Administration Guide.

Configuring an HTTP Server (Optional for Docker Registry)

You can run JFrog Container Registry with one of the supported HTTP servers set up as a front end. For details please refer to Configuring a Reverse Proxy.

Accessing JFrog Container Registry

Once the JFrog Container Registry container is up and running, you access JFrog Container Registry in the usual way by browsing to: 

http://SERVER_DOMAIN:8081/artifactory

Default Home Directory

Path Naming Conventions

Please note that the JFrog Container Registry installation and configuration paths and code examples refer to artifactory as JFrog Container Registry runs the core files of JFrog Artifactory.

It is important to know where your ARTIFACTORY_HOME folder is located, since this folder stores your configurations and important repository data.

When JFrog Container Registry runs for the first time, it sets up a default configuration and creates all necessary files and folders under the ARTIFACTORY_HOME folder.

The default location of ARTIFACTORY_HOME is {user.home}/.artifactory.

Permissions on the ARTIFACTORY_HOME Folder

Make sure that the user running the Tomcat has write permissions on the ARTIFACTORY_HOME folder.

Directory Structure

After installing JFrog Container Registry, the $ARTIFACTORY_HOME directory will contain the following directory structure (the $ARTIFACTORY_HOME directory location depends on your installation type):

File/Folder
Description
accessThe home directory of the bundled JFrog Access. More details in the Access Tokens page.
access/etc/keysJFrog Access keys. More details in the Access Tokens page.

logs

JFrog Container Registry log files (general, access, request etc.)
etcConfiguration files
etc/pluginsCustom Groovy user plugins.
etc/securityGlobal security related files (configuring global encryption key, PGP signing key etc.).
etc/uiManually uploaded custom UI logos.

data/derby

The Derby database (only present when using Derby).

data/filestore

The checksum based storage of binaries when using the default filesystem storage.

data/tmp/work

Directory to save temporary files which JFrog Container Registry generates.

data/tmp/artifactory-uploads

Directory to save files uploaded using the Web UI.
binJFrog Container Registry startup/shutdown scripts.

tomcat

The default tomcat directory bundled with JFrog Container Registry.
tomcat/workThe tmp directory tomcat and the JVM uses (Tomcat automatically assigns it to a java system environment variable as java.io.tmpdir)
tomcat/logsAdditional Tomcat log files
miscConfiguration files used as examples for different databases and servlet containers.

backup

The default backup directory JFrog Container Registry uses for system wide and repository backup. 
webappsContains the JFrog Container Registry WAR file and the Access WAR file used by the bundled Tomcat distribution. We strongly recommend keeping both these files in the same bundled Tomcat.

Default Admin User

Once the installation is complete, JFrog Container Registry has a default user with admin privileges predefined in the system:

User: admin

Password: password

Change the admin password

We strongly recommend changing the admin password as soon as installation is complete.



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