Artifact Depot

Spec sheet

Purpose

Artifact Depot is a safe-Rust, scale-out artifact repository manager intended as a replacement for Nexus and Artifactory or as an artifact cache.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Product

Artifact Depot is a Rust-based, scale-out artifact repository manager positioned as a replacement for Sonatype Nexus and JFrog Artifactory.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Audience

The documentation describes use in datacenters, CI pipelines, dev containers, offices, air-gapped clusters, and on developers’ laptops.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Deployment

It ships as a statically linked server binary or a rootless Docker image with an embedded web UI.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

API

The REST API includes repository, artifact, user, role, blob-store, settings, task, backup, and restore operations, plus a Nexus-compatible API subset.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Integrations

The documentation names compatible observability destinations including Jaeger, Honeycomb, Datadog, SigNoz, AWS X-Ray, Azure Monitor, and Splunk via an OTel collector.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Security

Authentication supports JWT bearer tokens and HTTP Basic; passwords are hashed with Argon2id, and repository-scoped RBAC is available.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

License

The linked public GitHub repository identifies the project license as Apache-2.0.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Authentication and access

It supports JWT bearer tokens, HTTP Basic authentication, Argon2id password hashing, repository-scoped RBAC, and feature-gated LDAP with group-to-role mapping.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Blob storage

Artifact content is BLAKE3-addressed and deduplicated, with filesystem or S3-compatible blob storage options.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Formats

It supports Raw, Docker/OCI, APT, Yum/DNF, PyPI, npm, Cargo, Helm, and Go modules; each format supports hosted, cache, and proxy repositories.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Intended use

The maker describes use in datacenters, CI pipelines, dev containers, Kubernetes clusters, air-gapped environments, and developer laptops.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

LDAP

LDAP authentication with group-to-role mapping is available behind a feature flag.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Metadata storage

Metadata can use embedded redb for a single node or DynamoDB-compatible storage for clustered deployments.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Notable setup requirement

A fresh instance does not automatically create a blob store, so an operator or initialization script must create one before repositories can accept writes.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Observability

Depot exports traces and logs through OpenTelemetry and exposes Prometheus-format metrics at `/metrics`.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Observability integrations

It exposes Prometheus metrics and exports telemetry through OpenTelemetry; the documentation describes Grafana dashboards and OTel collector integrations with services such as Datadog, Honeycomb, and Splunk.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Operational limit

On a fresh instance, an operator must create at least one blob store before repositories can accept writes.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Repository snapshots

Repository cloning copies metadata while reusing shared blobs, so it does not duplicate artifact data.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Scale

Multiple instances can share key-value and blob backends, with distributed leases for background jobs and live integrity checks.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Scale-out

Multiple instances can share DynamoDB-compatible metadata and S3-compatible blob storage, with distributed leases for background jobs.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Storage

It deduplicates content-addressed blobs with BLAKE3 and supports embedded redb or DynamoDB-compatible key-value stores, plus filesystem or S3-compatible blob storage.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Supported formats

It supports Raw, Docker/OCI, APT, Yum/DNF, PyPI, npm, Cargo, Helm, and Go modules, with hosted, cache, and proxy repository types.Read 11 Oct 2026 · artifactdepot.io

Where Specifiction places it

• Artifact repository software#31 of 647.9