Concepts

Understand how Federated repositories work, from core architecture to synchronization behavior and member health.

This section covers the foundational concepts you need before setting up or managing a Federation:

What Are Federated Repositories: Definition, use cases, and how the peer-to-peer sync model works.
Access Federation vs. Repository Federation: How identity federation differs from artifact federation. Read this first if you're not sure which "Federation" you're looking for.
Federation Members and Topology: How members form a mesh and the split between metadata and binary replication.
Synchronization and Conflict Resolution: Event-based sync, timestamp conflict resolution, and what metadata is synchronized.
Event Types and Lifecycle: The event types that drive synchronization and how events flow through the queue.
Member States and Health: How to interpret member health states and what triggers state transitions.
Mirror Modes: Bidirectional vs. receiving-only (unidirectional) sync modes.
Federation Priority: Assigning sync priority to critical repositories.
Artifactory Federation Service (RTFS): The standalone microservice that orchestrates federation operations.
Multi-Version Support: Running different Artifactory versions across Federation members.

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