Install Artifactory via Docker Compose

Overview

I would be following the steps as explained in the JFrog Wiki. My goal was to get artifactory oss running on a Ubuntu VM in a quick start way and explore some of the inner workings under the hood. Obviously if you are looking to get going with the JFrog platform for an enterprise I would recommend reviewing documentation and start here

Prerequisites

The things that you will need:

• 👉 Docker
• 👉 DockerCompose
• 👉 Vagrant
• 👉 VirtualBox

Below are the steps I followed. You could follow along if you have got the prerequisites ready. If not jump to the vagrant file section where I script all these steps along with the prerequisites.

Step 1: Docker volumes

Create named Docker volumes so that you could manage the artifactory data and do backup/restore/upgrade easily.

docker volume create --name=artifactory_data
docker volume create --name=postgres_data

Step 2: Docker Compose archive

Go to the download page, click the green arrow to download Docker Compose. Extract the contents of the compressed archive (.tar.gz file) and then go to the extracted folder. At the time of writing this post the latest artifactory oss release was “7.27.6”

wget https://releases.jfrog.io/artifactory/bintray-artifactory/org/artifactory/oss/docker/jfrog-artifactory-oss/7.27.6/jfrog-artifactory-oss-7.27.6-compose.tar.gz
tar -xvf  jfrog-artifactory-oss-7.27.6-compose.tar.gz

Step 3: Setup docker-compose.yaml

Copy the docker-compose-volumes.yaml to the extracted folder.

cp templates/docker-compose-volumes.yaml docker-compose.yaml

Step 4: Add the entries in the .env file.

echo -e "JF_SHARED_NODE_IP=$(hostname -i)" >> .env
echo -e "JF_SHARED_NODE_ID=$(hostname -s)" >> .env
echo -e "JF_SHARED_NODE_NAME=$(hostname -s)" >> .env

Step 5: Manage Artifactory

Using native Docker Compose commands from the extracted folder.

docker-compose -p rt up -d
docker-compose -p rt ps
docker-compose -p rt down

Vagrant

Wouldn’t it be nice to get all of this going at one go! I thought so too. So I created a Vagrant file just for that. Check it out in GitHub

All you would need to do is clone the repo and do:

vagrant up

That’s it! 💨 And you have a working standalone installation of Artifactory OSS.

Login at http://SERVER_IP:8082/ui/

Next steps

There were few other steps I had to take to get artifactory working in a meaningful way in my machine:

• Specify File Handle Allocation Limit
• Specify JVM Memory Allocation
• Specify Log Rotation

JFrog is the numero uno in the enterprise as a binary repository management and there’s a lot to explore here.

Start with JFROG Wiki