Jfrog Artifactory what is used for

Question

I've a question about Jfrog Artifactory. I don't know for what it is used. Can you explain me this in practical way ? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

From the tag description of artifactory:

Artifactory is a binary repository manager for use by build tools (like Maven and Gradle), dependency management tools (like Ivy, NuGet and RubyGems) and build servers (like Jenkins, TeamCity and Bamboo). It comes as downloadable version (OSS, Pro and Enterprise with additional features) and cloud SaaS version.

Simply put it's a self-hosted/on-premise remote location in which you can store Java/Maven dependencies (with the open source version) and various other package types (NPM, rubygems etc) with the pro version