Binary Artifact Management and Ansible

In a development project of any scale, anywhere from tens to thousands of artifacts are used, produced, and filed. Most of these digital fragments are in-house resources, but most organizations also utilize libraries and other resources licensed from outside companies, licensed for particular uses and, usually, for contract-specified lengths of time. Managing and complying with these requirements by hand, while possible, would take up far more time than the vast majority of organizations are willing to commit. As such, an artifact-management system should exist to manage these limitations and ensure the same version of any given resource is available to each developer, no matter where they might be. With this in mind, the concept of the artifact repository was born. A central location for all things to be used, created, and managed during the development process resides here until called upon for use in any given software project, however great or small...