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# Use Artifact Registry

- [Manage Registries](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/manage-registries.md): Create, configure, and manage artifact registries.
- [Create an artifact registry](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/manage-registries/create-registry.md): Learn how to create artifact registries, including upstream proxies.
- [Create an upstream proxy](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/manage-registries/upstream-proxy.md): Learn how to configure your artifact registries with an upstream proxy.
- [Client setup](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/manage-registries/client-setup.md): Configure your client to pull and push artifacts.
- [Configure registries](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/manage-registries/configure-registry.md): Configure security scanning, policy sets, artifact filtering, upstream proxies, and dependency firewall settings for your Harness Artifact Registry.
- [Delete Registries](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/manage-registries/delete-registry.md): Delete an artifact registry from the project UI, including soft and permanent delete.
- [Webhooks](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/manage-registries/ar-webhooks.md): Learn how to use webhooks to trigger actions based on events related to your artifacts.
- [Manage Artifacts](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/manage-artifacts.md): Find, manage, and delete artifacts in Harness Artifact Registry.
- [Artifact Management](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/manage-artifacts/artifact-management.md): Learn how to manage your artifacts.
- [Delete Artifacts](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/manage-artifacts/soft-delete.md): Soft-delete packages and versions; use the Artifacts Deleted tab and scoped views; restore or permanently delete.
- [Find Artifacts](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/manage-artifacts/find-artifacts.md): Learn the basics on how to find artifacts within Artifact Registry
- [Artifact Details](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/manage-artifacts/artifact-details.md): View artifact metadata, package details, security results, and deployments.
- [Artifact Registry audit dashboard](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/manage-artifacts/audit-dashboard.md): Use the out-of-the-box Artifact Registry Audit Dashboard in Harness Dashboards to track artifact upload and download activity by user, IP, registry, package, and version.
- [Lifecycle Rules](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/lifecycle-rules.md): Automate artifact retention and cleanup with policy-based lifecycle rules that soft-delete stale versions on a schedule.
- [Create a cleanup rule](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/lifecycle-rules/create-cleanup-rule.md): Create a lifecycle cleanup rule to automatically soft-delete artifact versions based on age, version count, or download activity.
- [Create a retention rule](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/lifecycle-rules/create-retention-rule.md): Create a lifecycle retention rule to protect specific artifacts from all cleanup rules.
- [Dependency Firewall](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/dependency-firewall.md): Learn how Dependency Firewall in Harness Artifact Registry acts as a gatekeeper to control and secure your software supply chain.
- [Built-in policy templates](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/dependency-firewall/built-in-policy-templates.md): Reference for all five built-in Dependency Firewall policy templates, including detection methodology, configuration, and recommended usage.
- [Dependency Exemptions](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/dependency-firewall/exemptions.md): Request, review, and manage temporary exemptions that allow blocked or warned dependencies to be used through Harness Artifact Registry's Dependency Firewall.
- [Affected Pipelines](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/dependency-firewall/affected-pipelines.md): Track which CI/CD pipelines use blocked dependencies, trace transitive dependency chains, and set up the Harness CLI for dependency graph generation.
- [Configure Policies and Policy Sets](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/dependency-firewall/configure-policies.md): Learn how to create and configure policies and policy sets for Dependency Firewall in Harness Artifact Registry.
- [Platform Integrations](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/platform-integrations.md): Integrate Artifact Registry with other Harness modules.
- [Artifact Registry and Continuous Delivery](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/platform-integrations/cd-ar-integrations.md): Learn how Harness Artifact Registry integrates with Continuous Delivery pipelines for artifact storage, management, and deployment across your software delivery lifecycle.
- [Artifact Registry and Continuous Integrations](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/platform-integrations/ci-ar-integrations.md): Deep dive into the native integrations between the Artifact Registry and the Continuous Integration module.
- [Security Integrations](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/platform-integrations/security-integrations.md): Integrate Artifact Registry with Harness security products.
- [Artifact Registry and Secure Software Delivery](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/platform-integrations/security-integrations/ssd-ar-integrations.md): Deep dive into the native integrations between the Artifact Registry and the Security Testing Orchestration and Supply Chain Security modules.
- [Artifact Registry Security Integration](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/platform-integrations/security-integrations/ar-security.md): Configure and review security scanners in Harness Artifact Registry.
- [Artifact Registry CLI](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/artifact-registry-cli.md): Use the Artifact Registry CLI to manage registries and artifacts.
- [Migrate artifacts to Harness Artifact Registry](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/artifact-registry-cli/artifact-migration.md): Learn how to migrate artifacts to Harness Artifact Registry using the Harness CLI.
- [Manage Artifacts and Registries](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/artifact-registry-cli/manage-artifacts-registries.md): Learn how to manage registries and artifacts using the Harness CLI
- [Build Plugins](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/overview.md): Learn how to integrate Maven and Gradle build tools with Harness Artifact Registry using official plugins
- [Gradle Plugin](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/overview/gradle-plugin-overview.md): Use the Harness Gradle Plugin to publish artifacts to Artifact Registry.
- [Maven Plugin](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/overview/maven-plugin-overview.md): Use the Harness Maven Plugin to publish artifacts to Artifact Registry.
- [Artifact Registry Metadata](https://developer.harness.io/artifact-registry/use-artifact-registry/metadate-registry.md): Learn how to use metadata to store additional information about your artifacts and registries.