To recap from our first blog post, JFrog Workers is a service in the JFrog Platform that provides a serverless execution environment, similar to AWS Lambda services. The Workers Service is similar to the user plugins available in JFrog self-hosted, and can be used to perform tasks that extend the capabilities of the JFrog Platform according to your requirements.

If you’re building apps to run on Kubernetes, chances are you’re using Helm. If you fall into that category, we have good news for you: Helm users will now benefit from JFrog Artifactory’s support of Helm OCI registries in JFrog Artifactory.

Great news for developers who leverage containers — JFrog has expanded its support for the OCI Container standard with dedicated OCI repositories! Before we touch on that, let’s do a quick recap on OCI containers for those unfamiliar with them outside the context of Docker.