Artifact Repository - CI/CD Glossary Definition
An artifact repository is a server that stores and serves build outputs and packages (for example JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, or GitHub Packages), giving pipelines a versioned, addressable place to publish and fetch binaries.
Why it matters
A repository decouples build from deploy: CI publishes once, and any later stage or environment pulls the exact stored version instead of rebuilding from source.
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