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How Virtual Registries secure, control, and strengthen CI/CD Artifacts
Platform and DevOps teams are beginning to apply a new idea to software delivery: bringing the security, control and resilience patterns long used in web and API infrastructures into the artifact layer of CI/CD. As pipelines increasingly depend on external sources (language modules, code libraries, software packages, orchestration scripts, Docker containers, and other types of files and binaries), issues like outages, registry throttling, developer sprawl, and supply-chain attacks introduce both risk and instability.
This session explores how emerging practices can create a more flexible, secure, resilient, and predictable dependency layer, without overhauling your artifact registries.
We’ll cover how teams are using Virtual Registries to:
- Abstract artifact registry access and increase flexibility while reducing vendor lock-in
- Introduce lightweight, inline security checks modeled after modern API gateways
- Reduce reliance on upstream registries to improve performance and latency at scale
- Apply web-style failover and caching tactics to keep builds running during outages
- Enhance observability, auditability and isolation without adding friction for developers
- Establish secure, consistent dependency flows as part of platform paved roads
