Artifact Management
Table of Contents
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
latesttag 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