Artifactory is a universal repository manager that serves as the single source of truth for managing the diverse artifact ecosystem within development organizations, essential for transitioning from development to DevOps. By supporting over 30 package types and providing comprehensive metadata, Artifactory enables developers to store, organize, and trace the entire lifecycle of artifacts, including binaries, dependencies, images, and configuration files. This management facilitates seamless integration into continuous integration pipelines, ensuring that applications—composed of interoperating microservices—are efficiently built, stored, and deployed. Artifactory’s features, such as proxy remote repositories and metadata maintenance, help eliminate network latencies and trace artifacts’ origins, contributing to accelerated release cycles and alignment of software development lifecycle workflows across enterprises.