How to Give Permissions to Repository for Uploading Artifacts

After illustrating the benefits of a corporate maven repository , we at present come to its management and optimal configuration.

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In this article we will use JFrog Artifactory equally a reference , but all the activities can be applied to any other semi-gratuitous solution as Nexus or Archiva. ( meet previous article for tools comparison)

Since I want to focus on management topics, we will refer to official guide to perform base installation: I recommend, if possible, to employ for RPM (or similar) installation package to speedup any future updates, and to install an Apache frontend to improve manage server access.

Once you got the server installed, we can connect via web as ambassador and begin to configure our remote repository .

The first step is to create our local repositories, my advice is to create at to the lowest degree three of them:

Artifactory – repositories

• mycompany -releases : this repo will contain all the stable versions of your projects , only our automated-build tool should exist able to upload such artifacts to this repository , no manual intervention should be immune, in order to enforce the reproducibility of the items uploaded .
• mycompany – snapshots : This repository is the "development twin" of the previous one. Only SNAPSHOT will be hosted and developers tin exist granted upload permissions in order to speedup libraries sharing inside the team .
• mycompany – thirdpaties : This repository will contain all third party libraries you volition accept to upload manually to make them available to maven. A mutual problem is absence of some libraries on public maven repositories : whan this happens, you have perform a manual loading of such antiquity on the repository to make information technology available tothe build process. Having a corporate repository, you will non perform such operation on your local maven, just on the shared one in order to make the library globally available.
  Using a carve up repository you brand these libraries easier to identify and organize, so that you tin can easily remove them once available on maven repository
  Alert: a mutual error is to abuse of this repository for laziness , uploading whatever 3rd party library  needed by dev squad. Always remember that any library manually loaded  will require maintenance and new uploads upon new version releases. Losing a couple of hours on net searching for a maven repository that exposes what we need (and its future versions) and add together information technology as a remote repository is surely meliorate than making a quick-and-dirty upload and bargain with its maintenance ever after.

To gear up  snapshot or release management of a repository you take to configure local repository options accordingly.
For third parties one you can enable both options, since you will be the one who will upload them manually.

Artifactory – local repository

Once you have configured local repository, we tin can start adding remote repositories at will: our corporate repository volition act as proxy to each of them. All the primary maven repositories are included in the base installation but adding remote repositories is a common practice to make available more 3rd-party libraries we practise non want to manually load on our repository.

Basic Artifactory behavior will be fetching artifact from remote repository, store it locally and forward the downloaded object to the maven client which requested it . If you have space issues and you do not desire artifact to exist stored on your server but requested every time (such artifact will be cached on macen customer every bit well),  you merely have to enable the pick Practice not Shop Artifacts Locally

We have now completed repositories configuration so nosotros tin move on to business relationship configuration.

First of all, let's analyze what we want to reach :

• Any user must exist able to scan the repository in read-only fashion , manually or via search.
  This causeless  the repository is not public only accessible only on intranet, not existence so, such approach is not recommended due to security reasons .
• Developers must be able to upload their work just in snapshot version , but should not be able to load or overwrite whatever artifacts once in release version.
• On the other hand our build automation tool must be able to deploy both stable and  snapshot at the aforementioned fourth dimension.
• Finally we want a server administrator who can manage the upload artifact third party (in our scenario we will assume him to exist also Artifactory organization ambassador )

On get-go indicate, resolution is quite simple , equally anonymous user is available out-of-the-box.

For developers you could consider creating personal accounts : both Artifactory Nexus can be attached to LDAP directories even if gratis version does not allow yous to manage groups, making maintainance more time-expensive (with no groups you volition have to assign permissionsat user level ) .
Honestly, unless you really need audits on who upload different artifacts , a unmarried development user shared with all the team is quite enough to reach desired effect , so we volition create a singleprogrammer account.

To our build automation tool we will instead reserve a dedicated account , not being too original we will proper noun it after tool's proper name: bamboo.

Artifactory – users

Nosotros also create groups to manage permissions.
Given the depression number of users nosotros have, this is quite unneccesary, but nosotros always try to look into the hereafter: assign permissions on groups is much faster and more flexible than having to do the same on individual accounts.
Nosotros thus create a group for users who have just read-only admission (readers) and 1 for those who accept upload privilege for snaphsots artifacts (devel) .
Since the only one uploading releases volition be bamboo user , we will not create a grouping to him.

Now that we have all users and groups we need, let'south create and assign permissions to perform our restrictions :

Artifactory – permissions

Every bit yous can see we take created a set up of permissions for each repository , plus a global one that includes all the remote repositories .

Artifactory – permissions – repositories

Now we'll bind permissions to groups and individual users: we assign release & snapshot deploy permission to our application user, while for the remaining ones, we'll grant permissions to groups looking forward for a possible user base of operations extension in the time to come :

Artifactory – permissions – users

Artifactory – permissions – groups

Once you lot'll take repeated the same functioning on all dissimilar targets you take completed permissions configuration and our repository will be ready to be used .

In the next post nosotros will see how to configure maven settings to exist distributed to developers, to be loaded on the automated-build server to be applied inside the maven projects nosotros want to deploy .

See you presently!

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Source: https://aroundthecode.org/2013/11/23/artifactory-repository-setup-and-configuration/

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