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Artifact

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈɑːrtɪfækt/nounCommon term

In software engineering, artifact means: A file or package produced by a build, such as a JAR file, a binary or a container image, which is stored and later deployed.

In Turkish: derleme çıktısı, yapıt, artifact

How it is used

Pipelines produce, upload, store and promote artifacts. A common rule is 'build once, deploy many': the same artifact goes to staging and then to production. Artifacts are kept in tools such as Artifactory or Nexus.

Example sentences

  1. The pipeline uploads the artifact to the repository, and the deploy job picks it up from there.

  2. We deploy exactly the same artifact that passed the tests on staging.

Common collocations

  • build artifact
  • artifact repository
  • upload an artifact
  • promote an artifact
  • buildThe process of turning source code into a program or package that can run, or the result of that process. Also a verb: to build the project.
  • pipelineAn automated series of steps, such as building, testing and deploying, that runs every time code changes and stops if one step fails.
  • container imageA read-only package with an application, its libraries and settings, used as the template from which containers are started.
  • container registryA storage service for container images, where pipelines push new images and servers or clusters pull them when they need to run them.

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