Jfrog Artifactory Setup Made Easy: A Guide for Java 11 and Java 17 Installation on Amazon Linux Server.

In today’s fast paced development environment, managing dependencies and artifacts efficiently is very important. Jfrog Artifactory provides a powerful solution for this purpose. In this guide, we’ll walk through the installation process on both java 11 and java 17, ensuring you can leverage the benefits of this robust tool regardless of your version.

In my last article, I mentioned a few prerequisites: an AWS account, basic knowledge of Linux and Java. You can find the article here.

We’ve identified various installation methods, such as Debian, RPM, Linux Archive, Helm Chart, and Docker Compose. In this guide, we’ll focus on the RPM method since Amazon Linux is based on the RPM distribution.

Now, Let’s proceed together.

Step 1: Launch an Amazon EC2 Instance

1. Sign in to your AWS Management Console.
2. Navigate to the EC2 Dashboard.
3. Click on Launch Instance.
4. Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI): Select Amazon Linux 2 AMI.
5. Choose an Instance Type: A t2.medium instance is more suitable for this tutorial. You can used t2.micro for small sized projects and testing.
6. Configure Instance Details: You can leave the default settings, but ensure you have a public IP enabled.
7. Click on Keypair to create a new keypair as this will be used for our terminal to gain SSH access into the server.
8. Add Storage: The default 8 GB may not be sufficient for this tutorial, so I recommend increasing it to 15 GB.
9. Configure Security Group: Create a new security group or use an existing one. Ensure you allow these ports:

• SSH (port 22)
• HTTP (port 80)
• HTTPS (port 443)
• Custom TCP Rule for Artifactory (port 8081–8082)

10. Review and Launch: Click on Launch Instance.

Step 2: Connect to Your EC2 Instance

Once your instance is running:

1. Open your terminal.
2. Use SSH to connect to your instance on your terminal using the command below

ssh -i /path/to/your-key.pem ec2-user@your-instance-public-ip

Step 3: Install Java

Artifactory requires Java. Here’s how to install Java 11:

sudo yum update -y
sudo amazon-linux-extras install java-openjdk11
sudo yum install java-11-openjdk-devel

We installed both the JDK and the JRE as this helps to so compile and run Java code.

To install the JDK for Amazon Corretto 17, see the command below. For different versions of Java 17, check the link

sudo yum install java-17-amazon-corretto-devel

To verify Java was installed, run the command:

java -version

Java 11 has been installed, see below.

Java 17 has been installed as well, see below.

Step 4: Download and Install JFrog Artifactory

1. Visit the JFrog Artifactory download page to locate the latest version or choice of your own.
2. Navigate to the /opt/ directory, where we will download JFrog Artifactory. After choosing your desired Artifactory version from the download page, copy the link address and use the command below to paste it in the /opt/ directory.

sudo wget https://jfrog.bintray.com/artifactory/jfrog-artifactory-oss-6.9.6.zip

4. Unzip the file and remove the zipped file.

Step 5: Start Artifactory

1. First, navigate to the Artifactory installation directory.
2. Before starting Artifactory, you need to change the ownership from root to ec2-user, which is the default user for Amazon Linux. Run the command below to do this:

sudo chown -R ec2-user:ec2-user artifactory-oss-6.9.6

The image below shows that the ec2-user is now the owner of the Artifactory directory.

3. Navigate to the /bin/ directory, as shown below.

4. Before we start the artifactory, try updating the server using the command below.

sudo yum update -y

5. Start the artifactory using the command.

./ artifactory.sh start

Step 6: Access Artifactory

Open your web browser and navigate to:

http://your-instance-public-ip:8081/artifactory

Fantastic! You should see the image below.

Jfrog Artifactory setup page

The default username and password for the built-in administrator user in JFrog Artifactory are “admin” and “password”. It is highly recommended to change the password after logging in for the first time.

If you have any further questions or observations, please feel free to leave a comment; it means the world to me, and I’ll respond. Thank you!

Until next time, keep striving for improvement!

Victor.