Set up Artifactory to use GCS

In order to move your Artifactory filestore to the cloud, you need to the execute following steps: 1. Shut down Artifactory.

First time installation or upgrade

If you are moving your filestore to GCS in the context of upgrading Artifactory, or a first time installation, we recommend that you first do a standard installation of Artifactory using the default settings, or a standard upgrade using your current settings.

Required Permissions

You will need the following permissions to use Google Cloud Storage with Artifactory:

  • storage admin
  • sign blob

In order to move your Artifactory filestore to the cloud, you need to execute the following steps:

  1. Shut down Artifactory.
  2. Configure Artifactory to use GCS
  3. Migrate your filestore to GCS
  4. Start up Artifactory

Configure Artifactory

To configure Artifactory to use a GCS object storage provider, you need to use the Google Storage Binary Provider Native Client Template.

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Keep your database settings

Make sure you don't change your database settings in your db.properties file.