TeamCity Artifactory Plug-in

Configuration

To use the TeamCity Artifactory plugin you first need to configure your Artifactory servers in TeamCity's server configuration. You can then set up a project build runner to deploy artifacts and Build Info to a repository on one of the Artifactory servers configured.

Configuring System-wide Artifactory Servers

To make Artifactory servers globally available to project runner configurations, they must be defined in Administration | Integrations | Artifactory.

Select Create new Artifactory server configuration and fill in the URL of the Artifactory server.

Deployer credentials can be set at the global level for all builds, but they can also be overridden and set at a project build level.

Specifying a username and password for the resolver repository is optional. It is only used when querying Artifactory's REST API for a list of configured repositories and then only if the target instance does not allow anonymous access. 

Running a Build with the Artifactory Plugin

General

The Artifactory Plugin adds the Artifactory configuration to the built-in Maven, Gradle and Ant and build steps.

In addition, the dedicated Artifactory Docker build step allows pulling and pushing docker images from and to Artifactory, while collecting and publishing build-info to Artifactory.

Generic Build Integration allows downloading and uploading generic files from and to Artifactory, while collecting build Info and publishing it to Artifactory. The Generic Build Integration configuration is added by the Artifactory to the following build steps:

• Command Line
• FxCop
• MSBuild
• Rake
• Powershell
• XCode Project
• NuGet Publish
• NAnt
• Visual Studio (sln)
• Visual Studio 2003
• SBT, Scala build tool

The configuration added to these build steps allows defining the artifacts to upload and download by either using "File Specs" or "Legacy Patterns".

File Specs

File Spec are specified in JSON format. You can read the File Spec schema here.

Legacy Patterns (deprecated)

Legacy patterns are deprecated since version 1.8.0 and will be removed in future releases.

Triggering Build Retention in Artifactory

You can trigger build retention when publishing build-info to Artifactory. 

Scanning Builds with JFrog Xray

The TeamCity Artifactory Plugin is integrated with JFrog Xray through JFrog Artifactory, allowing you to have build artifacts scanned for vulnerabilities and other issues. If issues or vulnerabilities are found, you may choose to fail a build job. The scan result details are always printed into the build log. This integration requires JFrog Artifactory v4.16 and above and JFrog Xray v1.6 and above. 

For Xray to scan builds, you need to configure a Watch with the right filters that specify which artifacts and vulnerabilities should trigger an alert, and set a Fail Build Job Action for that Watch. You can read more about CI/CD integration with Xray here.

Attaching Searchable Parameters to Build-Info and to Published Artifacts

In the Build Configuration Settings you can select Parameters to define system properties or environment variables that should be attached to artifacts and their corresponding build info.

To define a parameter click on the Add new parameter button.

Fill in the corresponding fields. 

Parameters relevant for builds run through Artifactory are:

• buildInfo.property.* - All properties starting with this prefix are added to the root properties of the build-info
• artifactory.deploy.* - All properties starting with this prefix are attached to any deployed produced artifacts

You can specify all the properties in a single file, and then define another property pointing to it.

To point the plugin to a properties file, define a property called buildInfoConfig.propertiesFile and set its value to the absolute path of the properties file.

It is also possible to point the plugin to a properties file containing the aforementioned properties.

Browsing to the Published Build-info in Artifactory

If you configured your build step to publish build-info to Artifactory, you can link directly to the build information in Artifactory from a build run view: 

Triggering Builds in Reaction to Changes in Artifactory

The plugin allows you to set a new type of trigger that periodically polls a path in Artifactory, a folder or an individual file.  Whenever a change is detected in the polled element, the TeamCity build is triggered. For example, the build could be triggered when new artifacts have been deployed to the specified path in Artifactory.

To configure a new build trigger, under Administration, select $PROJECT_NAME | $BUILD_NAME. Then, select Triggers.

Click the Add new trigger button to select an Artifactory Build Trigger

Select the Artifactory Server URL and the Target repository. 

Complete the username and a password fields of a valid deployer for the selected repository.

Then, in Items to watch, specify the paths in the selected repository in which a change should automatically trigger a build.

Proxy Configuration

If the Artifactory server is accessed via a proxy, you need to configure the proxy by setting the following properties in the $TEAMCITY_USER_HOME/.BuildServer/config/internal.properties file. If the file does not exist, you'll need to create it.

org.jfrog.artifactory.proxy.host
org.jfrog.artifactory.proxy.port
org.jfrog.artifactory.proxy.username
org.jfrog.artifactory.proxy.password

Since version 2.5.0, you can also define a proxy for specific build agents. You do that by adding the TeamCity agent name to the end of the above property names.

For example, if you wish to configure a proxy for the "my-agent" agent, the proxy properties configuration should look as follows:

org.jfrog.artifactory.proxy.host.my-agent
org.jfrog.artifactory.proxy.port.my-agent
org.jfrog.artifactory.proxy.username.my-agent
org.jfrog.artifactory.proxy.password.my-agent

Licence

The TeamCity Artifactory plugin is available under the Apache v2 License.

Release Notes