I joined JFrog recently, but have been a friend of JFrog for many years now… and I must confess that I had no idea that Artifactory was one of the first container registries and is heavily used in production (psssh… don’t tell my boss, the CEO). I am sure I am not alone, and this is a huge miss for those of us who know and love JFrog products, but have been dealing with second class offerings to manage our container images. Actually, now that I know, I would argue that Artifactory is the world’s best container registry. From watching how customers use Artifactory, it is obvious that there is no other registry in the world that offers the same deep metadata, high availability, advanced security scanning, and the breadth of integrations.

But all of this comes at a price… and when you are starting a new project it is hard to convince your boss to purchase licenses for (or ask your DevOps team for access to) Artifactory Pro. And it should be no surprise that as your friendly, neighborhood change agent, a few months after I joined we now have a container registry offering for developers that is entirely free to use!

So I am pleased to “re-announce” the World’s Best Container Registry technology with a new offering called the JFrog Container Registry. The JFrog Container Registry uses the same proven binary image management capabilities of Artifactory including rich metadata, remote and virtual repositories, and can store Docker images and Helm charts for deployment to Docker or Kubernetes environments. You can download the on-premises version and use it on a local or cloud environment for free with no restrictions. There is also a SaaS version for AWS, Azure, and GCP with a free tier.

One of the areas that the JFrog Container Registry really shines is in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment. You can take control of your binary image storage by using the same repository on whatever cloud service or local infrastructure you are using for development, testing, and deployment. Given the size of container images, this lets you control where and how you are storing your images based on your deployment topology and corporate security constraints.

You now have in your hands the best container registry that is used to serve the production needs of the world’s largest organizations. Bank of America, Oracle, IBM Cloud, Box, Morgan Stanley, and Atlassian all already use JFrog’s container technology to store their Docker images at scale.

You can give the JFrog Container Registry a spin at: http://jfrog.com/container-registry.

Feel free to reach out and ask questions on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jfrog-container-registry.