Artifact Registry enables you to store different artifact types, create multiple repositories in a single project, and associate a specific region or multi-region with each repository. This page describes considerations to help you plan the locations and organization of your repositories.
Setting up multiple repositories
Consider both internal processes for creating your artifacts and the usage by consumers of your artifacts when you create your repositories.
- You can create repositories for various stages development and deployment. For example, a test repository can store artifacts available for deployment to a staging environment for testing. Artifacts approved for production are stored in a separate production repository.
- Use separate repositories when you want to apply different access policies to different sets of artifacts. For example, developers might have write permissions on a test repository but the production repository is restricted to operations staff.
- Label repositories to group related repositories in Cloud Console.
Repository locations
You specify a location when you create a repository. The chosen location determines where the repository storage is created. You can create repositories in the following types of locations:
Region is a specific geographic place, such as Tokyo or Northern Virginia.
Multi-region is a large geographic area, such as Asia or the United States, that contains two or more geographic places.
Artifact Registry stores artifacts in the selected location in accordance with the Service Specific Terms.
A good location balances latency, availability, and bandwidth costs for data consumers.
Use a region to help optimize latency and network bandwidth for uploads and downloads by systems located in the same region.
Use a multi-region when you want to interact with systems that are outside of the Google network and distributed across large geographic areas, or when you want the higher availability that comes with being geo-redundant.
Generally, you should store your artifacts in a location that is convenient or contains the majority of the users of your data.
For Compute Engine
- Storing data in the same region as your Compute Engine VM instances can provide better performance.
- While you can't specify a Compute Engine zone repository location, all Compute Engine VM instances in zones within a given region have similar performance when accessing storage in that region.
To view a list of supported repository locations, run the command:
gcloud beta artifacts locations list
Available regions
All regions are at least 100 miles apart.
| Continent | Region Name | Region Description |
|---|---|---|
| North America | ||
northamerica-northeast1 |
Montréal | |
us-central1 |
Iowa | |
us-east1 |
South Carolina | |
us-east4 |
Northern Virginia | |
us-west1 |
Oregon | |
us-west2 |
Los Angeles | |
| South America | ||
southamerica-east1 |
São Paulo | |
| Europe | ||
europe-north1 |
Finland | |
europe-west1 |
Belgium | |
europe-west2 |
London | |
europe-west3 |
Frankfurt | |
europe-west4 |
Netherlands | |
europe-west6 |
Zürich | |
| Asia | ||
asia-east1 |
Taiwan | |
asia-east2 |
Hong Kong | |
asia-northeast1 |
Tokyo | |
asia-northeast2 |
Osaka | |
asia-south1 |
Mumbai | |
asia-southeast1 |
Singapore | |
| Australia | ||
australia-southeast1 |
Sydney |
Available multi-regions
If you create a repository in a multi-region, data is stored in at least two separate geographic locations separated by at least 100 miles.
| Multi-Region Name | Multi-Region Description |
|---|---|
asia |
Data centers in Asia |
europe |
Data centers in the European Union1 |
us |
Data centers in the United States |
1 Object data added to a storage bucket in the europe multi-region
is not stored in the europe-west2 or europe-west6 data center.