JFrog-Cloud-Installers/CloudFormation

CloudFormation Template For Artifactory Enterprise

Steps to Deploy Artifactory Enterprise using CloudFormation template

1. Go to AWS Console and Select CloudFormation. Then click on Create Stack. You will see following window.

2. Upload Artifactory-enterprise.json (Artifactory Enterprise template) and click next.

3. Provide required information like stack name, DBAllocatedStorage, DBInstanceClass, DBName, DBPassword, DBUser, InstanceType, InstanceStorage, MasterKey, ArtifactoryVersion, KeyName, ArtifactoryLicense1-5, MultiAZDatabase, SSHLocation, Certificate, CertificateKey, SecondaryNodeCount, ExtraJavaOptions. Then click next.

4. Mark on checkbox to allow CloudFormation to create IAM user for Artifactory to access S3 bucket.

5. Once Stack in deployed you will see Artifactory Load Balancer URL in output as showed in screenshot. It takes 7-10 minutes for Artifactory to start and attach instance to ELB.

6. Open Artifactory URL and you will be able to see Artifactory UI.

7. Let's make sure that Artifactory is running in High Availability mode. Go to Admin -> High Availability in Artifactory UI to see this table.

8. Now let's add 2 more nodes to Artifactory Enterprise cluster. Go to CloudFormation UI in AWS console and select newly deployed Artifactory Enterprise Stack. Click on Action -> Update Stack.

9. Increase SecondaryNodeCount from 0 to 2. Then update the Stack.

10. It will take few minutes to update stack.

11. Once Stack is updated.

12. You will be able to see 3 nodes in High Availability table in Artifactory UI as part of Enterprise cluster.

Note:

1. This template only supports Artifactory version 5.8.x and above.
2. Turn off daily backups. Read Documentation provided here
3. Use SSL Certificate with valid wild card to you artifactory as docker registry with subdomain method.

Steps to setup Artifactory as secure docker registry

considering you have SSL certificate for *.jfrog.team

1. Pass your SSL Certificate in parameter Certificate as string
2. Pass your SSL Certificate Key in parameter CertificateKey as string
3. Set CertificateDomain as jfrog.team
4. Set ArtifactoryServerName as artifactory if you want to access artifactory with https://artifactory.jfrog.team
5. Create DNS for example Rout53 with entry artifactory.jfrog.team pointing to ELB value provided as output in CloudFormation Stack.
6. Create DNS for example Route53 with entry *.jfrog.team pointing to ELB value provided as output in CloudFormation Stack.
7. If you have virtual docker registry with name docker-virtual in artifactory. You can access it via docker-virtual.jfrog.team e.g docker pull docker-virtual.jfrog.team/nginx

Steps to upgrade Artifactory Version

1. Go to AWS Console and Select CloudFormation Artifactory Stack you want to upgrade. Then click on Update Stack.

2. Change Artifactory version in parameters from old version to version you want to deploy.
   for e.g. 5.8.1 to 5.8.2

   

3. You will see instances will get upgraded one by one. Depending on your cluster size it will take 20-30 minutes to update stack.