Overview
From version 5.4, Artifactory supports managing your Artifactory filestore on the cloud with Azure Blob Storage providing you with:
- Massive scalability
On the cloud, your Artifactory filestore is massively scalable. You may freely continue to upload files without having to install or maintain any file storage devices. You can even upload files larger than 5 GB using multi-part upload with the blob size limit currently at 4.75 TB. Currently, there is also a 500 TB limit on an Azure Blob Storage account. - Security
An Azure Blob Storage account offers a variety of security capabilities such as role-based access control, Azure Active Directory, in-transit security, Storage Service encryption and more. For full details on the security capabilities provided by Azure Blob Storage, please refer to Azure Storage Security Overview. - Disaster recovery
Since your files are replicated and stored with redundancy, using Azure Blob Storage offers the capability for disaster recovery.
Support for Azure Blob Storage is included with JFrog Enterprise Edition.
In order to use Azure Blob Storage with Artifactory, make sure you first install or upgrade to Artifactory V5.4.0 or later.
Backup your system. Your current filestore will be deleted.
Setting up Artifactory to use Azure Blob Storage will delete all files in your current filestore.
If you already have a running installation of Artifactory, then before you setup Artifactory to use Azure Blob Storage and migrate your filestore to the cloud, we strongly recommend that you do a complete system backup.
Setting up Azure Blob Storage
Artifactory requires the use of Azure block blob storage, a storage system optimized for unstructured text and binary data. Block blobs are made up of blocks of data that can be managed individually, which is appropriate as an Artifactory filestore.
Before setting up an Artifactory for filestore, you must create a block blob storage account on Azure.
To learn more, please refer to Introduction to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage in the Microsoft Azure documentation.
Setting up Artifactory to Use Azure Blob Storage
First time installation or upgrade
Whether you are installing Artifactory for the first time, or are moving your filestore to Azure Blob Storage in the context of upgrading Artifactory, we recommend that you first do a standard installation of Artifactory using the default settings, or a standard upgrade using your current settings.
To move your Artifactory filestore to Azure Blob Storage, execute the following steps:
- Shut down Artifactory.
- Set your enterprise license
To use Azure Blob Storage, your Artifactory installation needs to be activated with an enterprise license. - Configure Artifactory to use Azure Blob Storage
To configure Artifactory to use Azure Blob Storage, you need to use the Azure Blob Storage binary provider described in Configuring the Filestore. - Migrate your filestore to the cloud
For an Artifactory HA cluster running version 5.0 and above, to migrate your filestore, please refer to Migrating Data from NFS. - Start up Artifactory