JFrog CLI Plugins

General

JFrog CLI plugins enhance the functionality of JFrog CLI to meet specific user and organization needs. The source code of a plugin is maintained as an open-source Go project on GitHub. All public plugins are registered in JFrog CLI's Plugins Registry. We encourage developers to create plugins and share them publicly with the community. When a plugin is included in the registry, it becomes publicly available and can be installed using JFrog CLI. For more information, see the JFrog CLI Plugins Developer Guide if you want to create and publish your own plugins.

Installing Plugins

A plugin which is included JFrog CLI's Plugins Registry can be installed using the following command.

$ jf plugin install the-plugin-name

This command will install the plugin from the official public registry by default. You can also install a plugin from a private JFrog CLI Plugin registry, as described in the Private Plugins Registries section.

Private Plugins Registries

In addition to the public official JFrog CLI Plugins Registry, JFrog CLI supports publishing and installing plugins to and from private registries. A private registry can be hosted on any Artifactory server and uses a local generic Artifactory repository for storing the plugins.

To create your own private plugins registry:

1. On your Artifactory server, create a local generic repository named jfrog-cli-plugins.

2. Verify that your Artifactory server is configured in JFrog CLI by running the jf c show command.

3. If needed, configure your Artifactory instance using the jf c add command.

4. Set the ID of the configured server as the value of the JFROG_CLI_PLUGINS_SERVER environment variable.

5. To use a repository name other than jfrog-cli-plugins, set the custom name as the value of the JFROG_CLI_PLUGINS_REPO environment variable.

The jf plugin install command will now install plugins stored in your private registry.

To publish a plugin to your private registry, run the following command from the root directory of the plugin's source code. This command builds the plugin's source for all supported operating systems, and all binaries will be uploaded to the configured private registry.

jf plugin publish the-plugin-name the-plugin-version