Artifactory Federation Service (RTFS)

Federated repositories enable enterprises that operate across multiple to sites maintain a single source of truth for their binaries.

Federated repositories let enterprises operating across multiple sites maintain a single source of truth for binaries. Artifacts and metadata in one JFrog Platform Deployment (JPD) are mirrored to federated repositories in other JPDs in the same federation. Changes on one federation member are replicated asynchronously to the others.

Federated repositories were introduced in Artifactory 7.18.3. To support growing scale requirements, JFrog moved federation synchronization into a standalone service to improve timely sync of large metadata volumes between sites.

RTFS provides:

  • A monitoring dashboard to view federation state across repositories.
  • A new set of APIs.
  • Member prioritization.
  • Improved auto-healing and recovery operations.
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Version Availability And Enablement

  • RTFS is available from Artifactory version 7.104.
  • In 7.104 through 7.110, RTFS is disabled by default and can be enabled only for Helm installations with PostgreSQL.
  • From 7.111 and later, RTFS is still disabled by default but can be enabled for all installation types that use PostgreSQL.

For enablement steps, see Installing RTFS.