[baq]

This also applies to any package manager repository you might be using.

JFrog charges loads of money for Artifactory, btw

[XorNot]

There are plenty of open source registry implementations though, including just running "distribution" from Docker.

The format is not hard to implement either for basic storage.

[baq]

The point is Artifactory has basically all popular (and some not very popular) repository format support built-in while supporting serious traffic, sharding, replication, etc. so you don't have to hunt for and then maintain anything. They've got a good tool, it's just expensive.

[marginalia_nu]

Reposilite is a nice and easily deployed alternative.