YAAM

Although there are many artifact managers, like Artifactory, Nexus3 and Verdaccio, they are either monoliths, consume a lot of resources (memory and CPU), lack Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or do not support all kind of artifact types. Yet Another Artifact Manager (YAAM):

• is an artifact manager like Artifactory, Nexus3 or Verdaccio.
• enforces IaC.
• has no UI.
• does not have a database.
• scales horizontally.
• supports downloading and publication of Apt, Generic, Maven and NPM artefacts, preserves NPM and Maven packages from public repositories and unifies Maven repositories.

Quickstart

Create a directory and change the permissions to ensure that YAAM can store artifacts:

mkdir ~/.yaam/repositories
sudo chown 9999 -R ~/.yaam/repositories

Configure YAAM by creating a ~/.yaam/config.yml with the following content:

---
caches:
  apt:
    3rdparty-ubuntu-nl-archive:
      url: http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
  maven:
    3rdparty-maven:
      url: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/
    3rdparty-maven-gradle-plugins:
      url: https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/
    3rdparty-maven-spring:
      url: https://repo.spring.io/release/
    other-nexus-repo-releases:
      url: https://some-nexus/repository/some-repo/
      user: some-user
      pass: some-pass
  npm:
    3rdparty-npm:
      url: https://registry.npmjs.org/
groups:
  maven:
    hello:
      - maven/releases
      - maven/3rdparty-maven
      - maven/3rdparty-maven-gradle-plugins
      - maven/3rdparty-maven-spring
publications:
  generic:
    - something
  maven:
    - releases
  npm:
    - 3rdparty-npm

Start YAAM:

docker run \
  -e YAAM_LOG_LEVEL=trace \
  -e YAAM_USER=hello \
  -e YAAM_PASS=world \
  --rm \
  --name=yaam \
  -it \
  -v /home/${USER}/.yaam:/opt/yaam/.yaam \
  -p 25213:25213 utrecht/yaam:v0.5.4

Once YAAM has been started, configure a project to ensure that artifacts will be downloaded from this artifact manager.

Apt

sudo vim /etc/apt/auth.conf.d/hello.conf

machine http://localhost
login hello
password world

sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://localhost:25213/apt/3rdparty-ubuntu-nl-archive/ focal main restricted

Preserve the artifacts:

sudo apt-get update

Generic

Upload:

curl -X POST -u hello:world \
http://yaam.some-domain/generic/something/world4.iso \
--data-binary @/home/${USER}/Downloads/ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso

Troubleshooting:

413 Request Entity Too Large

add:

data:
  proxy-body-size: 5G

and restart the controller pod.

Verify in the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file that the client_max_body_size has been increased to 5G.

Download:

curl -u hello:world http://yaam.some-domain/generic/something/world6.iso \
-o /tmp/world6.iso

Gradle

Adjust the build.gradle and/or settings.gradle:

repositories {
  maven {
    allowInsecureProtocol true
    url 'http://localhost:25213/maven/releases/'
    authentication {
      basic(BasicAuthentication)
    }
    credentials {
      username "hello"
      password "world"
    }
  }
  maven {
    allowInsecureProtocol true
    url 'http://localhost:25213/maven/3rdparty-maven/'
    authentication {
      basic(BasicAuthentication)
    }
    credentials {
      username "hello"
      password "world"
    }
  }
  maven {
    allowInsecureProtocol true
    url 'http://localhost:25213/maven/3rdparty-maven-gradle-plugins/'
    authentication {
      basic(BasicAuthentication)
    }
    credentials {
      username "hello"
      password "world"
    }
  }
}

Publish:

publishing {
  publications {
    mavenJava(MavenPublication) {
      versionMapping {
        usage('java-api') {
          fromResolutionOf('runtimeClasspath')
        }
        usage('java-runtime') {
          fromResolutionResult()
        }
      }
    }
  }

  repositories {
    maven {
        allowInsecureProtocol true
        url 'http://localhost:25213/maven/releases/'
        authentication {
          basic(BasicAuthentication)
        }
        credentials {
          username "hello"
          password "world"
        }
    }
  }
}

Preserve the artifacts:

./gradlew clean

or publish them:

./gradlew publish

NPM

Create a .npmrc file in the directory of a particular NPM project:

registry=http://localhost:25213/npm/3rdparty-npm/
always-auth=true
_auth=aGVsbG86d29ybGQ=
cache=/tmp/some-yaam-repo/npm/cache20220914120431999

Note: the _auth key should be populated with the output of: echo -n 'someuser:somepass' | openssl base64.

npm i -d

Run

Next to docker, one could also use a binary or K8s or OpenShift to run YAAM:

• Binary.
• K8s/OpenShift.

Other

• Background.
• Maven unify.