After a focused period of design and development, the new Cloudsmith web app is now available to all customers at app.cloudsmith.com. The new web app replaces the existing cloudsmith.io, which will be fully decommissioned in June 2025.
Benefits for Cloudsmith Customers
The new web app is designed to give you a clearer picture of the software flowing into and out of your business:
- When you sign in, you'll be presented with crucial information about the health of your Cloudsmith workspace
- The new compliance dashboard shows you vulnerabilities and policy violations across your workspace in a unified view
- We now aggregate and visualise usage information; the data you store and deliver via Cloudsmith, in a much clearer way
We've made dozens of improvements, small and large, to streamline the day to day administration of your Cloudsmith workspace.
API Enhancements
The new web app is backed by significant improvements to our REST API. We'll detail these upgrades in a separate post; we've added dozens of new endpoints, making it possible to interact with Cloudsmith programmatically like never before. Automate Everything is a core value of the Tao of Cloudsmith, and we're excited to see what our customers build around our enhanced API.
Work in Progress
The new web app is not yet a like-for-like replacement for cloudsmith.io. There are a number of known gaps in the new web app, including:
- Discrepancies between usage reporting across the old and new web apps; especially for customers who make heavy use of Docker containers
- Signing up or in to the new web app using GitHub or other social logins is not yet available
- Client logs/download logs are not visible inside the app
- Software licences used across your workspace are not yet being aggregated and visualised
- Package groups are not yet available
- Users can’t upload an avatar, or set an avatar/logo for a workspace
- Selecting multiple packages and carrying out bulk actions is not available yet
- Various styling and user experience improvements
We are working to fill these gaps while addressing feedback submitted during early access.
Retiring the Legacy Web App
If you are not quite ready to stop using Cloudsmith.io, that's no problem. Both the new and legacy web applications will work in parallel for some time to come. We'll give you and your teams plenty of time to make the switch:
- w/c December 2nd 2024: General availability of app.cloudsmith.com and notification to our customers
- w/c December 2nd 2024: New customers will sign up and onboard through app.cloudsmith.com
- w/c December 9th 2024: New features no longer being added to cloudsmith.io. Security and critical bug fixes will continue until the legacy web app reaches end of life
- w/c February 17th 2025: Customers using our public repositories will be asked to link to the new web app. Public repositories being served by the legacy app will continue to work until Cloudsmith.io is switched off in June 2025. Package download endpoints will remain unchanged
- w/c May 26th 2025: Brown out of Cloudsmith.io and final preparations ahead of switch off
- w/c June 23rd 2025: End of life for Cloudsmith.io. The app will become inaccessible. We will redirect requests to cloudsmith.io to app.cloudsmith.com where appropriate
For Your Teams
You can reference this blog article in communication to your Cloudsmith users. We’ve also prepared a short Cloudsmith Web App Release Notes slide deck that summarises the transition to the new app.
For More Information
We're here to help our customers through the transition to app.cloudsmith.com. Contact us with your questions and feedback. We will publish frequently asked questions about the transition to the new web app here on the Cloudsmith blog.
