JFrog Artifactory

This article will walk you through setting up Artifactory as a Docker registry in Coder.

JFrog Artifactory serves as a central hub for housing and managing any kind of artifact you might be interested in securely managing across your entire organization, including container images. It can be self-hosted which may be particularly useful for hardened environments where external network access is undesirable.

We have based these instructions off Artifactory's documentation. Please see the following links for more information:

• Docker Registry
• Getting Started with Artifactory as a Docker Registry

Step 1: Create an Artifactory repository

1. If you do not already have an account you can start up a free trial or get yourself a free instance to play with.
2. Log in to your Artifactory dashboard.
3. Navigate to Repositories in the sidebar.
4. Click + Add Repositories.
5. Select Docker.
6. Name your repository.
7. Click Create Local Repository.

Step 2: Add images

You can push and pull images as you would with any other Docker registry once you log in.

docker login $ARTIFACTORY_URL

If you have trouble logging in click your user account icon in the upper right corner of the Artifactory dashboard, go to Set Me Up, then select docker to find exactly what username and password you can provide to get logged in.

At this stage you can add any images you want to use with Coder. For example with an image called hello-world and a repository called images:

docker push $ARTIFACTORY_URL/images/hello-world

Step 3: Configure Coder

To add the registry to Coder you can use the same credentials you used for docker login but in production you may want to create a new user with read-only permissions. This can be done by clicking the cog icon in the upper right corner of your Artifactory dashboard then clicking User Management.

Once you have the credentials you want to use grab your Artifactory URL and and the full path to an image then add a new registry to Coder.

For example here we add an image stored at codercom/enterprise-intellij in an Artifactory server called test and a repository called images:

Other Notes

We have an open-source version of Microsoft's extension marketplace for VS Code which is capable of using Artifactory for extension storage. If you use VS Code or code-server with Coder and are interested in further securing your supply chain with Artifactory check it out here.