Are there any artifact stores that keep lineage history and support multi-environment promotion workflows?

Yes. Several artifact stores support both lineage/history and multi-environment promotion patterns, though the exact feature names vary.

Common options

• JFrog Artifactory
  Strong support for artifact versioning, immutability patterns, metadata, and promotion between repos/environments. Often used with CI/CD pipelines for dev → staging → prod flows. Also integrates well with build info and traceability.

• Sonatype Nexus Repository
  Supports staged promotion workflows, repository separation by environment, and retention/versioning. It’s commonly used to promote artifacts from one repo to another as they move through environments.

• AWS CodeArtifact
  Good for package management and versioning, with IAM-based controls. Promotion is usually implemented through separate repositories or automation rather than a deeply built-in “promotion” model.

• Azure Artifacts
  Supports feeds, upstream sources, and package versioning. Promotion is often modeled via separate feeds and pipeline automation.

• GitHub Packages / GitLab Package Registry
  Can work for basic artifact storage and versioning, but lineage and promotion workflows are usually handled externally via CI/CD and naming conventions.

If you want stronger lineage/traceability

Look for features like:

• Immutable artifacts
• Build metadata / provenance
• Repository or feed promotion
• Checksums and provenance records
• Integration with CI/CD and release approvals
• Environment-specific repositories

Best fit depending on your need

• Best for explicit promotion workflows: JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus
• Best for cloud-native simplicity: AWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts
• Best for package registry convenience: GitHub/GitLab registries

If you want, I can also give you a comparison table focused specifically on:

1. lineage/history tracking,
2. promotion between environments, and
3. support for container images vs. libraries/packages.