Artifact Management

Table of Contents

• Overview
• When to Use
• Quick Start
• Reference Guides
• Best Practices

Overview

Implement comprehensive artifact management strategies for storing, versioning, and distributing built binaries, Docker images, and packages across environments.

When to Use

• Docker image registry management
• Package publication and versioning
• Build artifact storage and retrieval
• Container image optimization
• Artifact retention policies
• Multi-registry distribution
• Dependency caching

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# Dockerfile with multi-stage build for optimization
FROM node:18-alpine AS dependencies
WORKDIR /app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm ci --only=production

FROM node:18-alpine AS builder
WORKDIR /app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm ci
COPY . .
RUN npm run build

FROM node:18-alpine AS runtime
WORKDIR /app
COPY --from=dependencies /app/node_modules ./node_modules
COPY --from=builder /app/dist ./dist
COPY package*.json ./

EXPOSE 3000
HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=3s --start-period=40s --retries=3 \
  CMD node healthcheck.js

CMD ["node", "dist/server.js"]

// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide	Contents
Docker Registry Configuration	Docker Registry Configuration
GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) Push	GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) Push
npm Package Publishing	npm Package Publishing, Artifact Retention Policy, Artifact Versioning, GitLab Package Registry

Best Practices

✅ DO

• Use semantic versioning for artifacts
• Implement image scanning before deployment
• Set retention policies for old artifacts
• Use multi-stage builds for Docker images
• Sign and verify artifacts
• Implement artifact immutability
• Document artifact metadata
• Use specific base image versions
• Implement vulnerability scanning
• Cache layers aggressively
• Tag images with commit SHA
• Compress artifacts for storage

❌ DON'T

• Use latest tag as sole identifier
• Store secrets in artifacts
• Push artifacts without scanning
• Use untrusted base images
• Skip artifact verification
• Overwrite published artifacts
• Mix binary and source artifacts
• Ignore image layer optimization
• Store build logs with sensitive data