Exploring other tools

There are many other tools available to do binary management. Four commonly used products are MyGet, Artifactory, GitHub Packages, and Azure Container Registry (ACR). The features they deliver do overlap, but they also have unique attributes at which they excel.

MyGet

MyGet is an alternative location for hosting your NuGet packages and allows you to create both public and private feeds that are managed by you. It also supports defining upstream sources and delivers built-in dependency scanning to give you continuous feedback on the level of security of your dependencies.

Since MyGet is an implementation of the NuGet protocol, you can publish and use packages using the default NuGet tasks from Azure Pipelines.

Artifactory

Artifactory, a product by JFrog, is another tool that you can use to host your package feeds. Artifactory was originally an on-premises product, but it is now also available as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. Just like...