Introduction Artifactory is a versatile solution designed to streamline the management of remote repositories. This article provides a step-by-step guide to configuring and resolving grafana packages available on “https://rpm.grafana.com” using Artifactory. By following the instructions below, you will learn how to set up a remote registry for “rpm.grafana.com” as an RPM Remote repository, enabling you to install packages effortlessly. Configuring the RPM Remote Repository: To begin, access the Artifactory UI and follow these steps: 1. Create a new remote repository by navigating to Administration -> Repositories -> Create Repository. Select RPM. 2. Enter the repository name and the URL and then create it. Refer to the attached screenshot for visual assistance.
3. Then, navigate to the Set Me Up page for the repository and then follow the steps as mentioned.
- In the client, create an artifactory.repo file under /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.
- Copy the contents from the Set Me up and set the gpgcheck to 1 and repo_gpgcheck to 1.
- Also, in the gpgkey section, the URL will be pointing to Artifactory. Hence, just append the gpg.key at last.
4. Below is the sample artifactory.repo file.
[Artifactory] name=Artifactory baseurl=http://admin:XXXXXXXXXXXXXX@<DNS-name>/artifactory/rpm-grafana-remote enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 #Optional - if you have GPG signing keys installed, use the below flags to verify the repository metadata signature: gpgkey=http://admin:XXXXXXXXXXX@<DNS-name>/artifactory/rpm-grafana-remote/gpg.key repo_gpgcheck=1
5. Once the configuration is done. Perform yum update. This will fetch the metadata file from the upstream. Sharing the below command:
> yum update --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="Artifactory"
6. Then install the grafana package from this repository, it will prompt you to import the GPG key. Press Yes and the package will be successfully downloaded. Below is the sample output.
> yum install grafana --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="Artifactory" Updating Subscription Management repositories. Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:14 ago on Sun 22 Dc 2024 04:48:57 AM UTC. Dependencies resolved. =================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Package Architecture Version Repository Size =================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Installing: grafana x86_64 11.3.1-1 Artifactory 120 M Transaction Summary =================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Install 1 Package Total download size: 120 M Installed size: 448 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: grafana-11.3.1-1.x86_64.rpm 21 MB/s | 120 MB 00:05 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 21 MB/s | 120 MB 00:05 retrieving repo key for Artifactory unencrypted from http://admin:XXXXXXXXXXXXX@<DNS-name>/artifactory/rpm-grafana-remote/gpg.key Artifactory 288 kB/s | 2.4 kB 00:00 Importing GPG key 0x10458545: Userid : "Grafana Labs <engineering@grafana.com>" Fingerprint: B53A E77B ADB6 30A6 8304 6005 963F A277 1045 8545 From : http://admin:XXXXXXXXXXXXX@<DNS-name>/artifactory/rpm-grafana-remote/gpg.key Is this ok [y/N]: y Key imported successfully Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Installing : grafana-11.3.1-1.x86_64 1/1 Running scriptlet: grafana-11.3.1-1.x86_64 1/1 ### NOT starting on installation, please execute the following statements to configure grafana to start automatically using systemd sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload sudo /bin/systemctl enable grafana-server.service ### You can start grafana-server by executing sudo /bin/systemctl start grafana-server.service POSTTRANS: Running script Verifying : grafana-11.3.1-1.x86_64 1/1 Installed products updated. Installed: grafana-11.3.1-1.x86_64 Complete!
Hooray, the setup is completed and the packages are downloaded. For more information on RPM Repositories, please visit the below articles:-