Likelihood to Recommend If you need to automate the deployment of environments in Kubernetes and these environments should be easily replicable in other regions of your cloud provider or even in other cloud providers, then this is the tool for you. Just be prepared for a certain degree of complexity when creating the charts.
Read full review It works at scale and a large number of accessible pipelines for searching, repository updates and indexing will become easier. JFrog provides end-to-end solutions for all DevOps needs. With this, Jfrog Artifactory specifically implements the management of highly available repositories, with a smooth interface and integration with all the main CI tools on the market.
Read full review Pros Templates - The ability to create templates is really helpful and help creates a baseline for package management. Rollbacks - it is godsend. Period. Dry-run - This really is helpful when troubleshooting deployments and is great for testing out new charts as well. Read full review Artifactory Management acting as a repository manager of docker images, application and component dependencies Automate pipelines and thereby releasing changes faster Supports high availability and scalability with multi site replication Read full review Cons concurrent deployments templating values files Read full review We can always use support for more different types of packages in Artifactory. We also would like to see the Artifactory X-Ray produce continue to mature. Read full review Usability The main problem that seems intractable is getting the checksum of the artifact. Managing container artifacts is a game changer for us during project execution, as the container artifact type exposes all base image and Docker file steps. This makes debugging or analysis easier. Jfrog Artifactory provides promotion feature and can automated from one environment repo to another environment repo before the deployment occurs.
Read full review Support Rating We didn't really need support, but the open-source community seemed responsive and informative when it came to issues. Many cloud native consultancy companies (including ourselves) offer support for Helm.
Read full review Support tickets take days to respond. The most basic of questions that should be knocked out in a few hours don't get answers for days. Tickets are also closed without resolution.
Read full review Alternatives Considered We have a natural trending to use what is a reference in its space and Helm has being leader in its area for a long time. Since it has all features we need didn't make sense to us to invest time on researching and testing other alternatives, so Helm was our first and only tool in regards of automating deployments on Kubernetes
Read full review JFrog Artifactory has a much more friendly GUI, making package exploration less of a chore to do. Other than that, their features are pretty much comparable to each other. Both support multiple types of packages; both have API that can integrate well with CI/CD pipelines.
Read full review Return on Investment Reduction in human effort. Streamline software versions and upgrades. Read full review So many times it happens at the time of dependency resolution some of the servers are down e.g NPM, Maven central, PiPy in that cause our builds starts failing. By proxying these repositories with JFrog this is never happened again. It reduced the additional cost of container image registry and management effort. Support of integration with Build, Monitoring, and CI tools resulted in smooth automation and management. Read full review ScreenShots