ARTIFACTORY: Resetting the Artifactory admin password in a Helm environment, Best Practices

If you are unable to access the admin user account in Artifactory due to a forgotten or unknown password, you can reset it by following these steps:

Please note that these instructions are intended for Artifactory versions 7.x only.
 

When using the Artifactory OR Artifactory-HA Chart:

• Create an admin-creds-values.yaml file with the following information:

artifactory:
 admin:
   ip: "*” # Example: "*" to allow access from any IP
   username: "admin"
   password: "password1"

Apply the admin-creds-values.yaml file using the following command(s):

Using the Artifactory chart

helm upgrade --install artifactory --namespace artifactory jfrog/artifactory -f admin-creds-values.yaml

With Artifactory-HA chart

helm upgrade --install artifactory-ha --namespace artifactory-ha jfrog/artifactory-ha -f admin-creds-values.yaml

When using the JFrog platform chart:

artifactory:
 artifactory:
   admin:
     ip: "*" # Example: "*" to allow access from any IP
     username: "admin"
     password: "password1"

Apply the admin-creds-values.yaml file using the following command:

helm upgrade --install jfrog-platform --namespace jfrog-platform jfrog/jfrog-platform -f admin-creds-values.yaml


* For non-Helm installations, refer to the steps provided on the following page.