Coder powers secure, scalable development across key industries — automotive, finance, government, and technology — enabling faster builds, tighter compliance, and seamless AI adoption in enterprise-grade cloud environments.
Use Coder and JFrog Artifactory together to secure your development environments
without disturbing your developers' existing workflows.
This guide will demonstrate how to use JFrog Artifactory as a package registry
within a workspace.
Requirements
A JFrog Artifactory instance
1:1 mapping of users in Coder to users in Artifactory by email address or
username
Repositories configured in Artifactory for each package manager you want to
use
Provisioner Authentication
The most straight-forward way to authenticate your template with Artifactory is
by using our official Coder modules. We publish
two type of modules that automate the JFrog Artifactory and Coder integration.
This module works with both JFrog SaaS (for example, example.jfrog.io) and self-hosted (on-premises) Artifactory.
It uses Coder's external-auth feature, so each user authenticates with Artifactory through an OAuth flow, and Coder issues a user-scoped access token to each workspace.
To set this up, follow these steps:
Create an application integration in Artifactory.
Use https://<CODER_URL>/external-auth/jfrog/callback (your Coder deployment URL) as the callback URL and applied-permissions/user as the scope.
JFrog SaaS (example.jfrog.io): Create the integration from the JFrog Platform UI as an administrator:
Go to Administration > General Management > Manage Integrations, or open https://<JFROG_URL>/ui/admin/configuration/integrations/application directly.
Select New Integration.
Select External Applications.
On the Create New Application Integration form, set Application Name to Coder, set Application Type to Custom Integration, and enter the callback URL.
Select Generate Client ID & Secret.
Self-hosted (on-premises): First register an integration template in your Helm chart values.yaml, then create the application integration in the UI, and select that template as the Application Type.
Replace CODER_URL with your Coder deployment URL:
Add a new external authentication to Coder by setting these environment variables in a manner consistent with your Coder deployment.
Replace JFROG_URL with your JFrog Artifactory base URL, and the client ID and secret with the values from step 1:
Create or edit a Coder template and use the JFrog-OAuth module to configure the integration:
module "jfrog" {
count = data.coder_workspace.me.start_count
source = "registry.coder.com/coder/jfrog-oauth/coder"
version = "~> 1.0"
agent_id = coder_agent.example.id
jfrog_url = "https://example.jfrog.io"
username_field = "username" # If you are using GitHub to login to both Coder and Artifactory, use username_field = "username"
package_managers = {
npm = ["npm", "@scoped:npm-scoped"]
go = ["go", "another-go-repo"]
pypi = ["pypi", "extra-index-pypi"]
docker = ["example-docker-staging.jfrog.io", "example-docker-production.jfrog.io"]
}
}
JFrog-Token
This module makes use of the Artifactory terraform
provider and an admin-scoped token to create
user-scoped tokens for each user by matching their Coder email or username with
Artifactory. This can be used for both SaaS and self-hosted (on-premises)
Artifactory instances.
To set this up, follow these steps:
Get a JFrog access token from your Artifactory instance. The token must be an admin token with scope applied-permissions/admin.
Create or edit a Coder template and use the JFrog-Token module to configure the integration and pass the admin token. It is recommended to store the token in a sensitive Terraform variable to prevent it from being displayed in plain text in the terraform state:
The admin-level access token is used to provision user tokens and is never exposed to developers or stored in workspaces.
If you don't want to use the official modules, you can read through the example template, which uses Docker as the underlying compute. The
same concepts apply to all compute types.
Air-Gapped Deployments
See the air-gapped deployments section for instructions on how to use Coder modules in an offline environment with Artifactory.