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Some of the other questions and answers here on SO extol the virtues of using an enterprise repository tool like Archiva, Artifactory, or Nexus. What are the pros and cons of each? How do I choose between them?
In case it helps:
N.B. this question is not a duplicate of either this one or this one.
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Artifactory is Kubernetes ready supporting containers, Docker, Helm Charts, and is your Kubernetes and Docker registry and comes with full CLI and REST APIs customizable to your ecosystem.
Artifactory has a slight lead in the number of supported repo types, but Nexus provides you with OSGi interfaces, enabling you to make custom repository types if needed.
Artifactory optimizes storage by ensuring that any binary and its metadata are only stored once on the file system, under the name of its unique calculated checksum. Repositories hold only references to files, so the physical file is never duplicated, and its checksum can be used to verify the binary's integrity.
We had been using Archiva for a while, and were happy with it. We recently switched hardware, and decided to try out Nexus because we had read some good things about it. We didn't know what we were missing in Archiva, but Nexus is far better. The repository aspect is easier because it "groups" all the repositories into one url, for easier settings.xml configuration. Further, the web site rocks -- easy search for artifacts, and even searches the global central repo, without having downloaded it all to your proxy. I highly recommend Nexus!
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