[question] Airgap Recommendation for mirroring

[dwswingle]

What is your question?

What is the recommended approach for migrating a conan remote into an airgapped network for mirroring artifactory instances?

Have you read the CONTRIBUTING guide?

• I've read the CONTRIBUTING guide

[memsharded]

Hi @dwswingle

Thanks for your question.

I don't know enough about the possible Artifactory mechanisms, I think there can be exporting-importing functionality, migration tools, etc. If you have access to Artifactory experts via support, I'd suggest to reach out to them.

From the Conan side, the conan cache save/restore functionality can zip packages from a Conan cache (you would need to download them from the server) and unzip them in another Conan cache which is in the air-gapped area, and then from there upload to the Artifactory server in the airgap too. This could be slower than some direct server-to-server approach, but if you don't have to mirror too many packages, it might be possible.

[Rz-Rz]

Should we use conan lock to transfer program built with internet to an air gapped zone ? For future build and testing ?

[memsharded]

conan lockfiles and airgap zone are different things. You can have reproducible future build and testing without an airgap, that is a different story related mostly to regulatory constraints (defense, etc), not sure what is the connection.