creating a remote repo of powershellgallery.com - is this possible? - powershell

Question

Has anyone tried to or know how to setup a remote or cached repo within Artifactory for the powershellgallery?
I am unable to find anything even remotely talking about this online as well.
PSGallery URI is: https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2
I am beginning to think it was intentionally made by MS to not allow situations like that (but am looking for confirmation if that's the case)
NOTE: the intent here is that we will then have an internally accessible remote repo that is a copy of the PSGallery. Which then allows us to make sure we are scanning the modules and abiding by compliance regulations.
when it's added to Artifactory as a remote repo, its successful, but is empty.
Then, we set it up on Windows machine with register-PSRepository -Name psgallery-remote -SourceLocation myartifactoryuri (successful)
But when trying to do a find-module -name InvokeBuild -repository psgallery-remote it fails with no results.
When doing find-module -name InvokeBuild -Repository PSGallery it's successful.

Answer 1

You have to set up your repo and save PSGallery modules to it, then make it available to the local environment.
For a quick and dirty example to get stuff and use them:
New-Item -Path 'C:\' -Name 'LocalPSGallery' -ItemType Directory -Force -Verbose
Register-PSRepository -Name LocalPSGallery -SourceLocation 'C:\LocalPSGallery' -InstallationPolicy Trusted -Verbose
Get-PSRepository
Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\LocalPSGallery'
# Results
<#
Note it is empty because it should be.
The above commands do not create a clone, it just sets up you local repo pointer.
#>
# Select a set number of modules as a test or by named group, etc
Find-Module -Name '*' |
Select-Object -First 9 |
Save-Module -Path 'C:\LocalPSGallery' -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\LocalPSGallery' # requested modules are listed
# Note still no list, because no path to your repo
Find-Module -Name Carbon -Repository LocalPSGallery
# Results
<#
PackageManagement\Find-Package : No match was found for the specified search
criteria and module name 'Carbon'. Try Get-PSRepository to see all available
registered module repositories.
#>
# Add the path
$env:PSModulePath
$env:PSModulePath = "$env:PSModulePath;C:\LocalPSGallery"
$env:PSModulePath
# Note still no list, because you've not installed anything
Find-Module -Name Carbon -Repository LocalPSGallery
# Results
<#
PackageManagement\Find-Package : No match was found for the specified search
criteria and module name 'Carbon'. Try Get-PSRepository to see all available
registered module repositories.
#>
# Try and install your module first
Install-Module -Name Carbon -Repository 'LocalPSGallery' -Verbose
# Results
<#
VERBOSE: Repository details, Name = 'LocalPSGallery', Location = 'C:\LocalPSGallery'; IsTrusted = 'True'; IsRegistered = 'True'.
VERBOSE: Using the provider 'PowerShellGet' for searching packages.
VERBOSE: Using the specified source names : 'LocalPSGallery'.
VERBOSE: Getting the provider object for the PackageManagement Provider 'NuGet'.
VERBOSE: The specified Location is 'C:\LocalPSGallery' and PackageManagementProvider is 'NuGet'.
VERBOSE: Total package yield:'0' for the specified package 'Carbon'.
PackageManagement\Install-Package : No match was found for the specified search
criteria and module name 'Carbon'. Try Get-PSRepository to see all
available registered module repositories.
#>
# Direclty import via FQDN
Import-Module -FullyQualifiedName 'C:\LocalPSGallery\Carbon' -Force -Verbose
# Results
<#
VERBOSE: Loading module from path 'C:\LocalPSGallery\Carbon\2.12.0\Carbon.psd1'.
VERBOSE: Loading 'FormatsToProcess' from path 'C:\LocalPSGallery\Carbon\2.12.0\Carbon.format.ps1xml'.
VERBOSE: Loading 'FormatsToProcess' from path 'C:\LocalPSGallery\Carbon\2.12.0\Formats\Carbon.Security.HttpUrlAcl.format.ps1xml'.
VERBOSE: Loading 'FormatsToProcess' from path 'C:\LocalPSGallery\Carbon\2.12.0\Formats\Schedule.Service.RegisteredTask.format.ps1xml'.
VERBOSE: Populating RepositorySourceLocation property for module Carbon.
VERBOSE: Loading module from path 'C:\LocalPSGallery\Carbon\2.12.0\Carbon.psm1'.
VERBOSE: Importing function 'Add-CGroupMember'.
VERBOSE: Importing function 'Add-CTrustedHost'.
...
#>
Find-Module -Name Carbon -Repository LocalPSGallery
# Results
<#
PackageManagement\Find-Package : No match was found for the specified search criteria
and module name 'Carbon'. Try Get-PSRepository to see all available
registered module repositories.
#>
# The below will work as expected
Get-Module -Name Carbon
Get-Module -ListAvailable
Here is a blog on the use case as well.
MS does provide the full details offline PSGallery deployment, See: Working with Private PowerShellGet Repositories
Of course, downloading all modules is going to take a very long time, and again, has would need to be done regularly to stay current.
So, on a pristine system, and using the details from the MS doc, you'd end up with something link this:
# Create a new location for your repo
New-Item -Path 'C:\' -Name 'LocalPSGallery' -ItemType Directory -Force -Verbose
# Update your path for your repo
$env:PSModulePath
$env:PSModulePath = "$env:PSModulePath;C:\LocalPSGallery"
$env:PSModulePath
# While online, install required resources
'PackageManagement', 'OfflinePowerShellGetDeploy' |
ForEach-Object {Install-Module -Name $PSitem -Force -Verbose}
Get-PSRepository
# Register a location for your repo
$CreateLocalPSGallery = #{
Name = 'LocalPSGallery'
SourceLocation = 'C:\LocalPSGallery'
ScriptSourceLocation = 'C:\LocalPSGallery'
InstallationPolicy = 'Trusted'
}
Register-PSRepository #CreateLocalPSGallery -Verbose
Get-PSRepository
Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\LocalPSGallery'
# Publish from the PSGallery to your local Repository
Find-Module -Name '*' |
Select-Object -First 9 |
ForEach-Object {
$PublishFromLocalRepo = #{
Name = $PSItem.Name
Provider = 'NuGet'
Source = 'https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2'
Path = 'C:\LocalPSGallery'
Force = $True
ErrorAction = 'SilentlyContinue'
}
Save-Package #PublishFromLocalRepo
}
# Validate resource download
Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\LocalPSGallery'
# Validate all repo resources
Find-Module -Name '*' -Repository LocalPSGallery
Find-Module -Name '*json*' |
Select-Object -First 3
# Make you repo the default - remote all other repos
Unregister-PSRepository -Name PSGallery -Verbose
Get-PSRepository
# Test your repo as the default
Find-Module -Name '*' -Repository LocalPSGallery
Find-Module -Name '*'
# After testing, reset the default
Register-PSRepository -Default -Verbose
Get-PSRepository

Answer 2

You should configure Artifactory remote repository as the following :
Url: https://www.powershellgallery.com/
NuGet Download Context Path : api/v2/package
NuGet Feed Context Path: api/v2
Link for JFrog documentation on NuGet Remote Repositories : https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/JFROG/NuGet+Repositories#NuGetRepositories-RemoteRepositories