Artifact Hub: Finding Cloud-Native Packages
Shriira Press
Find, evaluate, and trust cloud-native packages — one searchable hub for Helm charts, operators, policies, and more.
Welcome to Artifact Hub: Finding Cloud-Native Packages.
Artifact Hub is the web-based home for finding, installing, and publishing cloud-native packages — one searchable catalog across the fragmented ecosystem. This free book teaches it from the ground up: the discovery problem in cloud-native (finding, evaluating, and trusting packages), how Artifact Hub works (indexing repositories, not hosting packages), the breadth of package types it covers (Helm charts, operators, OPA/Kyverno policies, Falco rules, KEDA scalers, Tekton tasks, plugins, and more), discovering and evaluating packages with search and rich detail pages, publishing by registering repositories, the security and trust features (vulnerability scanning, signatures/provenance, verified publishers), Helm charts as its flagship use, integration with the ecosystem and its API, and using and self-hosting Artifact Hub. Ten focused chapters with clear diagrams that show how it turns a fragmented ecosystem into a navigable, trustworthy catalog.
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A note on reading it: open the Contents menu at the top of the reader to jump between chapters, use the Aa menu to set a comfortable text size, theme (light, sepia, or night), and single- or two-page layout. Your place is saved automatically, so you can always pick up where you left off.
We hope it serves you well.
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