Artifactory API keys are being deprecated

[Dan Ryan]

JFrog is deprecating API keys which are currently being used by launchpad for connectivity to artifactory.

Sometime in "later 2023", JFrog plans to completely remove API key functionality from artifactory in favor of access + identity tokens and reference tokens.

Reference tokens are short strings that *refer* to an actual token and can be used to authenticate to the platform like how an API key currently works.

> Reference Tokens can be used in multiple ways - Reference Tokens can be used similarly to API Keys, with the “X-JFrog-Art-Api” Header, but also as Basic credentials with “curl -u User1:<reference token>” or as bearer tokens “curl -H Authorization: Bearer <token>”.

https://jfrog.com/help/r/platform-api-key-deprecation-and-the-new-reference-tokens/what-makes-identity-tokens-useful

[Dan Ryan (techalchemy)]

Just want to update on this -- API keys will no longer be usable by the end of Q1, 2024.

[Clinton Fung (clinton-fung)]

Where did you get this deprecation timeframe?

This seems to claim that API keys are become unsupported at the end of Q4 2024.

https://jfrog.com/help/r/jfrog-platform-administration-documentation/jfrog-api-key-deprecation-process