Artifact repository
An artifact repository is a type of software that stores the different software packages or artifacts generated as an outcome of the software build process and makes them available for easy download and automated deployment. A typical artifact repository provides easy integration with the different build and deployment tools and allows you to store and manage the different versions of the software artifacts and dependencies.
There are lots of commercial and open source artifact repositories available on the market. Some of the popular ones are Sonatype Nexus, JFrog Artifactory, AWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts, Docker Hub, and GitHub Packages. Sonatype Nexus and JFrog Artifactory are especially popular and widely used in the industry.
As a developer, you build and use several open source libraries in your build environment and produce different libraries as dependencies for other projects within an organization. An artifact repository helps you to control...
