ProGet is a

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, designed by the

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software company. It allows users to host and manage personal or enterprise-wide packages, applications, and components. It was originally designed as a private

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(the package manager for the

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development platform) manager and symbol and source server. Beginning in 2015, ProGet has expanded support, added enterprise grade features, and is targeted to fit into a

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methodology. Enterprises utilize ProGet to “package

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and components” with the aim of ensuring software is built only once, and deployed consistently across environments. The research and advisory company

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lists ProGet as a tool aligned to the “Preprod” section of a

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being used to “hold/stage the software ready for release”. ProGet currently supports a growing list of package managers, including

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, Chocolatey, Bower, npm,

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, Helm for

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, Debian,

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, and

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Extensions (.vsix). ProGet also supports Docker containers, Jenkins build artifacts (through a plugin) and vulnerability scanning. It is possible to monitor feeds from the ProGet interface; these features are also available to be managed from a number of the clients with which it interfaces.

Features

Some of ProGet's main features include: * Feed aggregation * Connected feed filtering by package or license * Build/deployment server integration * Multiple feed support * Symbol & source server, avoiding the need for a separate symbol server for packages that contain

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s (PDBs) * Users-based security * Integrated LDAP * Automatic failover * Multi-site replication * Cloud storage, supporting

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and Azure Blob package stores * Deployment records * Package promotion * Jenkins CI support * Vulnerability scanning * OSS License Filtering * Publish directly from Visual Studio * Webhooks

References

External links

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