# what is artifact

* Storage of build artifacts produced by continuous integration and makes them available for automated deployment to different deployment environments 
* Provides a central location
* Artifacts are applications built into a single file 
* There are different artifact formats:
* Artifact repository needs to support this specific format 
* Repository for each file/artifact type

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### What is an Artifact Repository Manager?

* Can store many different artifact types 
* Which is great, because as a company you often produce different types of artifacts
* Instead of having different repositories for each artifact type
* **Just 1 repository for managing all your different artifact types**

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### Public vs Private Artifact Repository Managers

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