Add a Self-managed Follower to a Curation Federation

The Curation Federation has a star topology - one JPD acts as the Controller that distributes updates, and the other JPDs act as Followers that receive updates. When the Follower is a Self-managed site, you must define a JFrog Bridge that maintains persistent communication with the Controller site. In addition, you must enable federation services on the Follower.

Prerequisites

Verify that Self-managed site runs the following JFrog releases, and upgrade if necessary:

• Upgrade Artifactory to 7.146.x and above.

• Upgrade Xray to 3.143.x and above. Verify that Catalog is running with the Valkey cache manager.

To prepare a Self-managed Follower JPD:

1. On the Artifactory server, enable the PlatformFederation and JFBUS Microservices in the Artifactory system.yaml file, as follows:

   YAML

   platformFederation:
     enabled: true
   jfbus:
     enabled: true

2. On the Xray server, enable federation features of the Curation service in the Xray system.yaml file as follows:

   YAML

   curation:
     federation:
       enabled: True

3. Install the JFrog Bridge Client on the Self-managed Follower, and Add a Bridge that connects it to the Cloud (Saas) JPD that acts as the Controller in the Curation Federation.