Chapter 3. Enabling and configuring the JFrog plugin

Procedure

1. The JFrog Artifactory plugin is preinstalled in Developer Hub with basic configuration properties. To enable it, set the disabled property to false as follows:

   global:
     dynamic:
       includes:
         - dynamic-plugins.default.yaml
       plugins:
         - package: ./dynamic-plugins/dist/backstage-community-plugin-jfrog-artifactory
           disabled: false

Procedure

1. Set the proxy to the desired JFrog Artifactory server in the app-config.yaml file as follows:

   proxy:
     endpoints:
       ‘/jfrog-artifactory/api’:
         target: http://<hostname>:8082 # or https://<customer>.jfrog.io
         headers:
         # Authorization: 'Bearer <YOUR TOKEN>'
         # Change to "false" in case of using a self-hosted Artifactory instance with a self-signed certificate
         secure: true

2. Add the following annotation to the entity’s catalog-info.yaml file to enable the JFrog Artifactory plugin features in RHDH components:

   metadata:
       annotations:
         'jfrog-artifactory/image-name': '<IMAGE-NAME>'