Step by Step guide to install JFrog Artifactory on Amazon Linux

Install JFrog Artifactory in a Docker Container using Docker Compose on Amazon Linux

Prerequisites

• Amazon Linux Machine with a minimum of 2GB RAM.
• Needs to open 8081 and 8082 ports on EC2 Security Group (8081 for Artifactory REST APIs and 8082 for everything else like UI and all other product’s APIs).

Steps to install XL Deploy and XL Release

• Install Docker on Machine.
• Create Volume for XL Deploy and Release.
• Create docker-compose file.
• Run the docker-compose file.

Install Docker

#updating amazon linux patches
sudo yum update -y
#installing docker engine
sudo amazon-linux-extras install docker -y
#starting docker service
sudo service docker start
#Adding user ec2-user to docker group
sudo usermod -a -G docker ec2-user
#enabling docker service
sudo chkconfig docker on#Reboot the EC2 instance
docker info

Download Artifactory Docker image

sudo docker pull docker.bintray.io/jfrog/artifactory-oss:latest

Display docker images

sudo docker images

Create Data Directory

Create data directory on host system to ensure data used on container is persistent.

sudo mkdir -p /jfrog/artifactory
sudo chown -R 1030 /jfrog/

Start JFrog Artifactory container

sudo docker run --name artifactory -d -p 8081:8081 -p 8082:8082 \
-v /jfrog/artifactory:/var/opt/jfrog/artifactory \
docker.bintray.io/jfrog/artifactory-oss:latest

Run Artifactory as a service

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/artifactory.service

Copy the below code

[Unit]
Description=Setup Systemd script for Artifactory Container
After=network.target
[Service]
Restart=always
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker kill artifactory
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker rm artifactory
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker run --name artifactory -p 8081:8081 -p 8082:8082 \
  -v /jfrog/artifactory:/var/opt/jfrog/artifactory \
  docker.bintray.io/jfrog/artifactory-oss:latest
ExecStop=-/usr/bin/docker kill artifactory
ExecStop=-/usr/bin/docker rm artifactory
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Save and exit from vi editor and run the below commands

#Reload Systemd
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
#Then start Artifactory container with systemd.
sudo systemctl start artifactory
#Enable it to start at system boot.
sudo systemctl enable artifactory
#Check whether Artifactory Service is running
sudo systemctl status artifactory

Access Artifactory Web Interface

http://server_ip:8081/
You should see Artifactory welcome page.

Default username password for JFrog

Username: admin, Password: password

At this point, JFrog was installed successfully.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we’ve installed JFrog Artifactory on Docker Container.