User experience on Azure Artifact
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The Azure Artifact repository provides a convenient storage to keep our software archive a safe place. Microsoft Azure environment is very stable and the availability is almost 100 percent. That's the most important feature I believe that we can truly rely on the storage. We can easily tag the artifact and the security feature provide us confidence that no hacker can break through their system.
Pros
- Security feature on share code efficiently.
- The built in CI/CD for the software pipeline.
- Support for most famous build tool like maven and npm.
Cons
- Native artifact format support like docker image
- Support for APL
- Support IAM permission
Most Important Features
- Package protection
- Automatically CI/CD workflow
- Pricing is reasonable
Return on Investment
- The artifact provide best practice to our software development.
- Provide a standard way to release the software.
- The package is immutability which means no one can update it after release.
Alternatives Considered
Crucible and Helm
Other Software Used
Visual Studio IDE, Atlassian Confluence, GitLab