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# 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
