We usually use it to store our artifacts, version them, and use them in production. We use it in CI/CD pipelines. All our R&D uses it as do all our development teams that need to release software. It doesn't matter what, they use it.
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Good artifact storage tool
What do you like best about the product?
The way it monitors the builds and repositories
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as of now. Expecting a more easy integratikn with cicd
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring the generated artifacts or builds
JFrog : The core of DevOps automation
What do you like best about the product?
Some benefits of using the JFrog platform include:
1. Efficient dependency management: Artifactory helps to reduce the time and effort required to resolve and manage dependencies for your builds. It acts as a cache for external dependencies, so you don't have to download them repeatedly from external sources.
2. Improved build speeds: By using a local repository manager such as Artifactory, you can significantly improve the speed of your builds.
3. Enhanced security: Artifactory includes fine-grained permissions and access control, which can help secure your artefacts and ensure that only authorised users have access.
4. Simplified deployment: The JFrog platform includes tools such as Bintray and Xray that can help streamline distributing and deploying your artefacts.
5. Better traceability: Artifactory tracks all deployments and resolves dependencies, making it easier to understand how your artefacts are being used and trace any issues that may arise.
6. Improved collaboration: The JFrog platform makes it easier for teams to collaborate and share artefacts, improving communication and productivity.
1. Efficient dependency management: Artifactory helps to reduce the time and effort required to resolve and manage dependencies for your builds. It acts as a cache for external dependencies, so you don't have to download them repeatedly from external sources.
2. Improved build speeds: By using a local repository manager such as Artifactory, you can significantly improve the speed of your builds.
3. Enhanced security: Artifactory includes fine-grained permissions and access control, which can help secure your artefacts and ensure that only authorised users have access.
4. Simplified deployment: The JFrog platform includes tools such as Bintray and Xray that can help streamline distributing and deploying your artefacts.
5. Better traceability: Artifactory tracks all deployments and resolves dependencies, making it easier to understand how your artefacts are being used and trace any issues that may arise.
6. Improved collaboration: The JFrog platform makes it easier for teams to collaborate and share artefacts, improving communication and productivity.
What do you dislike about the product?
One potential downside of using the JFrog platform is its cost. The cost of a subscription to JFrog's tools depends on the number of users and the support you require. Still, it can be cost-prohibitive for smaller organisations or individual developers.
Another potential issue is that the JFrog platform is complex and can have a steep learning curve. It includes a range of tools and features, and it may take some time to become proficient.
Finally, the JFrog platform requires a dedicated server, which can be an additional overhead for some organisations. This may not be a problem for larger companies that already have the infrastructure, but it could be a challenge for smaller organisations or individual developers.
Another potential issue is that the JFrog platform is complex and can have a steep learning curve. It includes a range of tools and features, and it may take some time to become proficient.
Finally, the JFrog platform requires a dedicated server, which can be an additional overhead for some organisations. This may not be a problem for larger companies that already have the infrastructure, but it could be a challenge for smaller organisations or individual developers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The JFrog platform is designed to help organisations manage and deploy binary artifacts and their dependencies more efficiently. It can help to streamline the build and release process, reduce the time and effort required to resolve dependencies, and improve the speed and security of deployments.
Some specific business problems that the JFrog platform can help to solve include:
1. Reducing build times: By using a local repository manager such as Artifactory, you can significantly improve the speed of your builds by avoiding the need to download dependencies from external sources repeatedly.
2. Improving collaboration: The JFrog platform makes it easier for teams to share artifacts and collaborate, improving communication and productivity.
3. Enhancing security: Artifactory includes features such as fine-grained permissions and access control, which can help secure your artifacts and ensure that only authorized users have access.
4. Simplifying deployment: The JFrog platform includes tools such as Bintray and Xray that can help streamline distributing and deploying your artifacts.
5. Providing better traceability: Artifactory tracks all deployments and resolves dependencies, making it easier to understand how your artifacts are being used and trace any issues that may arise.
Some specific business problems that the JFrog platform can help to solve include:
1. Reducing build times: By using a local repository manager such as Artifactory, you can significantly improve the speed of your builds by avoiding the need to download dependencies from external sources repeatedly.
2. Improving collaboration: The JFrog platform makes it easier for teams to share artifacts and collaborate, improving communication and productivity.
3. Enhancing security: Artifactory includes features such as fine-grained permissions and access control, which can help secure your artifacts and ensure that only authorized users have access.
4. Simplifying deployment: The JFrog platform includes tools such as Bintray and Xray that can help streamline distributing and deploying your artifacts.
5. Providing better traceability: Artifactory tracks all deployments and resolves dependencies, making it easier to understand how your artifacts are being used and trace any issues that may arise.
JFrog - Great Platform for Container and Artifact Management
What do you like best about the product?
The completeness of the platform ranging from CI/CD (although not used when I used it) to Container and Artifact Management incl. Security
What do you dislike about the product?
So far I have not found what I dislike from the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
JFrog helps me to provider centralized private container repository and artifact management which can be used in my CI/CD to deploy my application in Kubernetes or Virtual Machine
Review for JFROG Artifactory
What do you like best about the product?
I like the JFrog artifactory for version control of code. Easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Artifactory GUI can be improved. Not supported by all browsers .
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Code version control and CICD pipeline. Easy to use.
Great solution to store artifacts
What do you like best about the product?
The GUI is intuitive and have a good set of features to play with and integrate with other tools, I have used other solutions in this pace but this is more close to what we needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think their pricing is bit high compared to others for the feature set they offer but it could be a bit lesss
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Artifact storage, we have continuous deployment to store artifacts programmatically in the centralized location, and we are using this solutin.
Save us the time and mundane work of maintaining multiple repositories for different types of artifacts
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
JFrog Artifactory is very essential to us. Without it, we could not use the artifacts, the products that our developers are writing. We would need to maintain a lot of different artifactory repositories in a lot of places. It would be more difficult. You definitely need some kind of artifactory solution. It doesn't necessarily need to be JFrog, but in my opinion, it's better to use it because it's a good, centralized solution. I haven't found any good competitors.
The way to explain to C-suite executives why they should continue to invest in JFrog is that it saves a lot of time and a lot of mundane work that would be required to maintain many solutions that JFrog gives you in one solution.
We don't have to maintain a lot of repositories. We get the same outcome with JFrog with less maintenance. With the SaaS solution, we don't even need to maintain the installation, the server, or whatever infrastructure is around it. There is less involvement in artifactory management.
We don't need to use all kinds of artifactories like Docker Hub or different PyPI repositories for Python. Everything is there and we don't need to pay different companies for all these solutions or to maintain them.
It gives us a good workflow in terms of how we create software because we use it for all of our artifact types. It's good that it's centralized and it helps us in our CI/CD flows, to release software. You don't need to create different scripts or automations to upload different kinds of artifacts to different vendors or repositories. It simplifies our workflow.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is that it is a centralized repository and that you can open multiple repositories for different types of artifacts. That is very good.
Also, the fact that you can integrate artifacts with authentication systems, like Active Directory or Okta is valuable.
And for binary management, versioning them, it does a very good job and it gives us a good API to work with.
What needs improvement?
In some of the latest versions of JFrog's SaaS solution, they changed the user interface, the SSO settings, how you interact with them over API, and how you generate tokens. It was very confusing for me. The overall user management is very complicated.
Also, their documentation about how to do things could be better. It was very confusing. I had been using it for a couple of years and then they completely changed how it works—the user and token management.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using JFrog Artifactory for three or four years. I have used it in almost every workplace.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's very stable. I don't think I have had many problems. There may have been some many years ago, maybe, but not something critical.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It scales very well. In a previous company, we used it in a couple of locations globally and it was also an on-premises installation. We used the syncing options for repositories and it worked very well. We didn't have a lot of problems setting it up or using it.
In my current company, we have about 200 users.
We use it all the time. If we have another artifact type to throw in it, we will increase our usage of it. Every new software that we have developed and released has gone to JFrog Artifactory. We're always increasing its use.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is an eight out of 10.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before JFrog Artifactory, we used all kinds of solutions, like Docker Hub and PyPI, but we didn't have a centralized solution like JFrog.
What was our ROI?
drop database *;
What other advice do I have?
It's very good that they have SaaS and non-SaaS solutions. You can take the SaaS solution and simply use and get support. But for small companies that don't want to invest in paying them for the solution, their free, on-premises solution is very good. It's almost the same as the paid version, minus the support and some features. It's very important that they have both options.
Because we use the SaaS solution, there is no maintenance involved for us. They maintain it. We maintain our versions and artifacts within it, but not the system itself.
Artifact did not affect how long it took us to fix the Log4j issue because our company was part of some cybersecurity companies that detected the breach and we fixed it for ourselves.
I would recommend using it because it's a great tool. Everyone is using it, most companies, as far as I know. It's a very well-known solution. It's a good, centralized solution.
A complete devops solution
What do you like best about the product?
I use the artifactory and pipeline of jFrog and found it very simple and easy to use. JFrog is a complete DevOps solution, for creating pipelines, deploying, and hosting the artifacts, creating cloud infrastructure, hosting SaaS applications, and dependencies that further can be used in projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not anything as of now, the things that I use in JFrog work very well for me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using JFrog I have solved many problems like; hosted SaaS applications, created application or code repository, created deployment pipeline, and hosted artifactories for project dependencies.
Wonderful platform for next generation software development
What do you like best about the product?
We have created couple of jFrog artifactory to store our nuget packages.Its working wonderful.
What do you dislike about the product?
With the limited usecase we don't have any complain.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it as a custom nuget artifactory.
Best Repository required in Modern Development
What do you like best about the product?
It provides strong pipeline to store and control flow of binaries in the development phase. JFrog artifactory has the best artifact repository which can store anything used in the pipeline. It's multicloud support is best as it can be deployed in any application .
What do you dislike about the product?
The artifact store feature should have auto data backup and restore feature. It will help us in unprecedented times where the application fails. The support is also something which needs to be improved as sometime things gets really delayed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deployment is really fast and supports multiple platforms. It helps to propose and use this application in public, private, and hybrid cloud scenarios as well. The best feature is that it can easily manage repisotory with live replication
One of the reliable automation tool with core ARtifactory helping in buliding CI/CD seamless
What do you like best about the product?
The artifactory repository manager is good and fast which helps in pipeline automation. What was the best was the continuous support it provides in business plans, which is really fast. Also, the downtime was very less, which provides a seamless and user experiece.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although the response was good it is somehow is not able to keep up with the is's competitor in terms of budgets and features offered by Github and GitLab. I used jFrog just for one project but that was a legacy project sooner the pipeline got migrated to Gitlab, with the feature and flexibility to manage the CI/CD through yml file is amazing, the flexibility it provides through Terraform is also great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped in automating the project through continuous integration and deployment. It was good in the initial days in the legacy projects but later after some time the pipeline got migrated to Gitlab. The shared pipeline and flexibility of Gitlab was more advantageous over jFrog
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