Artifact providers

An artifact provider is a repository that contains all the artifacts required to deploy components. In its current version, YaK supports AWS S3 bucket, Azure Blob Storage, and OCI Object Storage as artifact providers.

The repository must already exist at your cloud provider end. YaK will connect to this repository to fetch the required artifacts.

YaK does not provide the artifacts, it is up to the user to download artifacts from the vendors and make them available to the right artifact provider.

However, we provide you with the list of required artifacts for a given component type, and links to download them. This list can be found in the "Release Notes" folder of the component type archive.

YaK gives the ability to deploy a component to any supported cloud provider, while the artifacts for this components are stored elsewhere (Ex : deploy component to an AWS instance with artifacts fetched from an Azure Blob Storage)

• Example for component type "PostgreSQL-2.0.0":

[Artifacts]
  - PostgreSQL source code:           rdbms/postgresql/postgresql_src/postgresql-16.2.tar.bz2
  - PostgreSQL precompiled binaries:  rdbms/postgresql/postgresql_bin/postgresql-16.2.tar.bz2
  - ETCD package:                     rdbms/postgresql/etcd/etcd-v3.5.12-linux-amd64.tar.gz
  - DMK package:                      rdbms/postgresql/dmk/dmk_postgres-2.0.0.zip
  - pgBackRest source code:           rdbms/postgresql/pgbackrest_src/pgbackrest-release-2.51.tar.gz
  - pgBackRest precompiled binaries:  rdbms/postgresql/pgbackrest_bin/pgbackrest-release-2.51.tar.gz

The path to the artifact and the artifact name must be exactly the same as what is defined in the release notes of your component type.

Upload your artifacts to the repository

• Retrieve all required artifacts for the component you want to deploy (see component type release notes)

• Connect to your cloud provider account

• Upload all artifacts needed to your repository

• Ensure that paths and names of the files uploaded match exactly the structure defined in the release notes.

Declare an artifact provider in the YaK UI

• Navigate to Configuration -> Artifact providers

• Artifacts providers are organized by type of providers

  • Navigate through the tabs to find the artifact provider for your deployment (AWS, Azure, OCI, On-Prem)

• Click Declare

• Name your artifact provider

• Choose the provider (AWS, Azure, OCI, On-Prem)

• Attach the secret used to access your artifacts provider (see secrets section).

• Fill-in the required fields of the form with information gathered from your cloud provider (ex : bucket name, etc...)

• The checkbox "Is Default" informs the YaK that this artifact provider is the default location where to look for artifacts when deploying any component

• Click Save

In this release (YaK-2.0.0), only one artifact provider is supported. Support for multiple providers will be introduced in future releases.