<p>I have a Kubernetes cluster, with Artifactory as my internal registry and proxy to pull images from external private registries. How do I authenticate to these external private registries when I want to pull an image from my Kubernetes cluster? Normally in Kubernetes, this is done by using image pull secrets, however, it is not clear if Artifactory is able to handle the secret to authenticate to the external regisitry. What alternatives do I have?</p>

<p>Taking the comment by @Ivonet as the base - you configure the auth against the remote repository source in Artifactory itself. You can see the <a href="https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/JFROG/Advanced+Settings#AdvancedSettings-RemoteCredentials" rel="nofollow noreferrer">docs here</a>.</p>
<p>Once Artifactory is setup, you set your <code>imagePullSecret</code> to auth against Artifactory itself. See some examples in <a href="https://jfrog.com/knowledge-base/artifactory-installing-and-managing-kubernetes-registries/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this knowledge-base article</a></p>
