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Artifact management lets your organization deploy an application with build files and other types of
software artifacts without regard to their physical location.
An artifact is a script or the output of a build process. With artifact management, an application blueprint
specifies an artifact by type and name, but not by location or unique identifier. Artifact management
monitors the physical location and identity of artifacts and supplies the required artifact during
deployment.
In artifact management, an application catalog administrator creates artifact repository specifications and
maps them to artifact repository instances. An artifact repository specification identifies a store that can
contain an unlimited number of artifacts. It has properties that identify an artifact repository instance and
the artifacts it contains. Application Services provides out-of-the-box artifact repository specifications for
Jenkins and YUM, and the capacity to define additional artifact repository specifications.
An artifact repository specification has agent- and server-side scripts that can fetch artifacts from an
artifact repository instance. A script can produce metadata and store it with an artifact. It can also track
and search for an artifact. The script lifecycles are resolve artifact, download artifact, and find tracking
IDs. You can write your own Bash, Windows Cmd, Windows Powershell, BeanShell, and JavaScript
scripts.
An application architect and other application administrators create artifact specifications, map them to
artifact repository instances such as actual Jenkins build projects, and then bind the artifact specifications
to the properties of services, external service, or application components such as WAR or JAR files in the
application blueprints. An artifact specification identifies an artifact only by name, description, and
business group. The deployment environment you select determines the actual artifact repository
instance, and the deployment profile you use specifies the actual artifact. You can map an artifact to one
repository instance per deployment environment.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Create an Artifact Repository Specification
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Create an Artifact Repository Instance
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Map an Artifact Specification to an Artifact Repository Instance
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Bind an Artifact to an Application Blueprint
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