JFrog Artifactory Reviews

Name: JFrog Artifactory
Brand: JFrog
Rating: 4 (7 reviews)

Vendor: JFrog

3.9 out of 5

7 reviews
87% willing to recommend

What is JFrog Artifactory?

JFrog Artifactory is a powerful enterprise product designed for storing and managing different types of binaries, including artifacts, Dockery majors, and builds created as part of the CI process. It offers end-to-end binary management capabilities, integration with different environments and cloud providers, and a centralized repository with multiple repositories for different artifacts.

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JFrog Artifactory is the #1 ranked solution in top Repository Managers. PeerSpot users give JFrog Artifactory an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. JFrog Artifactory is most commonly compared to Sonatype Nexus Repository: JFrog Artifactory vs Sonatype Nexus Repository. JFrog Artifactory is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 65% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 17% of all views.

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Matthew Iijima

Head of Infrastructure and DevOps at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We're looking for something that has additional reporting capabilities on data growth and data aging. This goes back to storage lifecycle management so that the actual Artifactory itself can provide these reports to either the administrators or the users. I don't know if it has those capabilities. That's something we have to look into regarding the self-service dashboard, but the tool itself having those capabilities would be great rather than trying to do it at the underlying storage hardware layer. We moved from the internal Derby DB to the Postgres database last year or the year before. Because of the size and amount of objects in our instance, we were probably going to exceed the recommended number of objects for the default Derby DB. So, we moved to Postgres. The other option was MySQL. There weren't a lot of options. It could've been better. I felt that there wasn't a lot of knowledge base or support available to help with that migration for us. We had reached up to Artifactory support to see if they had a professional services type of engagement to do that, and they didn't have anything of that nature. So, we were left to our own devices to manage that database migration.

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Deepan M

Senior DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The feature that I like is Permission Targets. If I want to give permission to only deploy the cache, I can give that permission to a set of users. Similarly, if I want to overwrite an artifact with the same name from the same pipeline, I can give permission for that as well to particular users. Another important feature is the concept of a remote repo. For example, we have set up separate private clouds for the dev lab and prod. The dev lab has a given artifactory, and the prod has a different one. There is no communication from the lab to the prod or from the prod to the lab. If I want to access any version of an artifact from the lab to the prod, I use the remote repo concept. Instead of downloading the content from one place and taking it to another place and placing it there for use, I use the proxy method. That's one of the best features. It is a flexible tool. It supports any cloud and any environment. It interacts with the pipeline or the version control system. It doesn't directly interact with a cloud system.

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Josh Bearden

Senior Solutions Architect at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

We're a growing company that has been doing things in an archaic way. Artifactory has helped us modernize, and that's something that we can't do without. Our development operations are fully automated at each step from the daily development to the security scans that happen. It sped up our development, reducing a month-long process to a couple of days The integration between Frog Xray and Artifactory is a pleasant surprise. When our developers push through code, we ensure it's secure, and it's all automated. Artifactory's support for hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments is critical because we deploy to a wide array of environments, including those setups. When we did the trial, we created multiple types of package registries that support different file types and tested each one. We were thrilled with the results. We were also pleased with the overall flexibility Artifactory provides in terms of storage and database option. We have integrated Artifactory with Jira, allowing us to create Jira tickets for our security team to review when we identify vulnerabilities. There was a lot of overhead at first, but it paid off because we have full insight into what our code looks like from a security and a developer standpoint.

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JFrog Artifactory mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of JFrog Artifactory in the Repository Managers category stands at 37.0%, up from 33.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Sep 23, 2024

Valuable Features

"For the most part, it's pretty stable."
"The core functionality is most valuable for indexing and metadata of all the artifacts, but within the last year or two, we've been using the Projects feature, which has been very helpful. We can now assign individual admins for different projects and repos so that they can self-manage their own user permissions for their data. My IT DevOps team doesn't have to be the facilitators of that. It's now more of a self-service capability for them."
"The feature that I like is Permission Targets. If I want to give permission to only deploy the cache, I can give that permission to a set of users. Similarly, if I want to overwrite an artifact with the same name from the same pipeline, I can give permission for that as well to particular users."

Room for Improvement

"Sometimes the documentation was sort of messy because there are many possibilities for where and how to install Artifactory."
"We're looking for something that has additional reporting capabilities on data growth and data aging. This goes back to storage lifecycle management so that the actual Artifactory itself can provide these reports to either the administrators or the users. I don't know if it has those capabilities. That's something we have to look into regarding the self-service dashboard, but the tool itself having those capabilities would be great rather than trying to do it at the underlying storage hardware layer."
"The latest version that I am using is 7.41. It has been upgraded graphics-wise, but there is a bit of slowness. They can improve the graphical interface for the admin jobs and make it faster."

Pricing

"It is a bit expensive. It could be a little bit lower or have an a la carte option because, in our case, we had to go to the next version of Enterprise X because we needed one feature, which was more than three projects. We don't need all the other capabilities, but we're paying for all those. It's almost twice the cost of the previous version. So, it would be nice to have something along those lines."
"I am not aware of its cost, but it is worth investing in this. My guess is that its price is not much because we generally prefer open-source solutions, and if we are investing, we don't go for expensive ones. Our selection is based on the market demand and needs, and we invest only if something is worth the cost."

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Artifactory has helped organizations modernize and automate their development operations, reducing the time it takes to develop and release software. It supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments, offers storage and database options flexibility, and integrates with other tools like Jira.