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Managing modules/packages, whether hosted privately or sourced from public registries, presents challenges such as security vulnerabilities, lack of visibility into package usage, and dependency on the availability of public registries.

 directly addresses these issues, offering secure, controlled, and efficient package management for both private in-house modules and public npm packages.

How to use Deno and Cloudsmith for 2 different use cases:

Modules sourced from npm but proxied and cached in Cloudsmith.

 is a complete, “batteries included”, JavaScript and TypeScript toolchain, which includes a runtime, 

, and more. Deno addresses the shortcomings and 

 of Node by making it more simple and secure. It includes 

Integrating Cloudsmith with Deno offers a powerful solution for managing npm packages, whether they are private or sourced from public registries. Here's why Cloudsmith is the ideal partner for your Deno projects:

Deno’s security-first architecture pairs perfectly with Cloudsmith’s private npm registries, ensuring only authorized users can access your npm packages.

: Deno’s modern runtime makes it easy to manage dependencies, but visibility into them is crucial. Cloudsmith provides full transparency into all packages used in your Deno projects, whether stored privately or proxied from npm. This visibility lets you easily track, audit, and manage all dependencies, helping you maintain a secure and reliable codebase.

: Cloudsmith will verify every npm package in your Deno project by automatically scanning it for security and compliance threats.

: Leverage Cloudsmith’s caching to speed up builds and ensure that your Deno projects are not dependent on the availability of public registries.

By leveraging these benefits, Cloudsmith enhances your ability to manage and secure your software supply chain, leading to faster development cycles, more reliable deployments, and greater peace of mind.

Use Case 1: Managing a Private In-House Module with Cloudsmith

When working on sensitive projects or proprietary software, ensuring that your npm modules are private and secure is crucial. Here’s how to manage these private modules using Cloudsmith with Deno.

Let’s start by showing you how to use a private npm module stored on Cloudsmith in a Deno project.

Step 1: Set Up Your Cloudsmith Repository

creating a private repository in Cloudsmith

 to store your npm modules. Cloudsmith’s repositories are 

, meaning you can store packages of different formats (e.g., npm, Docker, Maven) in the same repository.

Step 2: Create and Publish Your npm Module

. For example, if you have a module called my-fave-npm-package, you would publish it using npm:

Step 3: Configure Deno to Use Your Private npm Registry

In your Deno project, create a .npmrc file to point to your Cloudsmith repository and manage authentication:

Replace YOUR_TOKEN_HERE with your Cloudsmith API key or your 

Next, configure your deno.json file to import your private module

configure your deno.json file to import your private module

 file, you can now import and use the private module:

This setup ensures your project securely fetches the private npm package from Cloudsmith.

Use case 2: Using Cloudsmith’s Upstreams.

Setting up an upstream proxy to npm through Cloudsmith is essential for organizations that prioritize security and control in their development processes.

Using Cloudsmith’s upstream capabilities, you can pull your dependencies sourced from the public npm registry into your secure Cloudsmith repository. This ensures that all your dependencies, including those from npm, are vetted, cached, and managed within Cloudsmith.

Let’s detail how to pull in a module hosted on npm, but proxied and cached via Cloudsmith.

Step 1: Set Up an Upstream Proxy in Cloudsmith

upstream to npm in your Cloudsmith repository

. This means that when a package is requested, Cloudsmith fetches it from npm, caches it, and serves it to your project.

 to direct Deno to use Cloudsmith as the source for npm packages:

Step 3: Configure deno.json for npm Module

 file, specify the npm module you want to import. For example, to use the express package:

This setup ensures that your project pulls the 

 package through Cloudsmith, adding a layer of security and control.

Integrating Cloudsmith with Deno allows you to manage all your npm packages, private or public, with the highest security, visibility, and control levels. This integration supports modern DevOps practices, ensuring that your software supply chain is secure and efficient. This ultimately leads to faster development cycles and more reliable deployments. Start using Cloudsmith with Deno today and see how it can transform your development workflow.

Start using Cloudsmith with Deno today and see the difference it can make in your development workflow!

Lee Skillen

Chief Technology Officer

Ciara Carey

Solutions Engineer

Level up your private npm registries in Deno with Cloudsmith

Cloudsmith brings the concept of flow—removing barriers and streamlining processes to keep everything moving smoothly - to artifact management. We want to help teams focus on what really matters: delivering value swiftly and efficiently.

The speakers at ShipItCon kept mentioning the importance of flow, especially how it ties in with observability, cloud processing, reducing handoffs, and building durable teams. Mihai Paun and Alma Tarfa discussed harnessing developer feedback to boost productivity, and Jim Dowling delved into the complexities of building AI systems. The message was clear: achieving flow is crucial, but it’s no walk in the park.

Claire Burn’s talk was another highlight. She shared her team's tough decision to pivot away from Kubernetes after realizing it wasn’t the right fit for their needs. This decision was a prime example of overcoming the sunk cost fallacy—choosing to prioritize flow and efficiency over sticking with a tool that wasn’t serving their goals. It reinforced the idea that sometimes, maintaining flow requires the courage to reassess and change direction.

Jim Dowling’s session on MLOps was another eye-opener. He laid out just how challenging it is to maintain flow when you’re dealing with AI systems. The sheer number of pipelines, the complexity of managing data, and the different competencies required all create significant obstacles. It got me thinking about how Cloudsmith might be able to help alleviate some of these pains—perhaps by simplifying artifact management in MLOps, making it easier for teams to keep that flow going.

Sam Newman also urged us to revisit the Agile Manifesto, reminding us that its principles, like "Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools," are still relevant. It’s a timely reminder that no matter how much our tools and processes evolve, the human element remains key to achieving flow.

Matthew Skelton’s talk connected the dots between flow, cloud capabilities, and organizational performance.

Dora’s Accelerate State of DevOps reports

, which demonstrate that effective use of cloud technologies is predictive of improved software delivery performance and availability. At Cloudsmith, we certainly agree!

Achieving flow is also rooted in the underlying culture. This was a recurring theme at ShipItCon, where several speakers highlighted how a well-nurtured environment is essential for maintaining a high-flow state. At Cloudsmith, we are guided by the 

ture of Honesty, Transparency, Improvement, and Sustainable Pace.

The talks this year were a nice blend of visionary thinking and practical advice. Charity Majors pushed us to think about how observability and flow should evolve together, while Paweł Malon and Paul Dailly offered practical insights for implementing observability to boost team effectiveness.

ShipItCon 2024's theme of flow was woven through every discussion. It’s a reminder to maintain smooth, efficient processes in everything we do—enhancing developer experiences, navigating the challenges of AI, or cutting down on the clutter in our pipelines.

Reflecting on ShipItCon 2024: High-performing teams need flow

We just released the Cloudsmith CLI GitHub Action. This new GitHub Action simplifies the process of installing and pre-authenticating the Cloudsmith CLI using OpenID Connect (OIDC) or an API Key. Whether managing packages, pushing artifacts, or automating your CI/CD workflows, this action is designed to streamline your experience and enhance your productivity.

1. Easy Installation of Cloudsmith CLI 📦

With this GitHub Action, you can effortlessly install the Cloudsmith CLI in your workflows. No more manual installations or complex setup processes. Simply add the action to your workflow, and the CLI will be ready to use.

One of the standout features of this action is its ability to pre-authenticate the Cloudsmith CLI using OIDC. By leveraging OIDC, you can securely authenticate without the need to manage API keys. This is particularly useful for organizations that prioritize security and want to minimize the exposure of sensitive credentials.

3. Support for API Key Authentication 🔑

In addition to OIDC, the action also supports authentication using an API Key. This provides flexibility for users who prefer or require API Key-based authentication. You can easily switch between authentication methods based on your needs.

The action comes with several customizable inputs, allowing you to tailor the setup to your specific requirements. You can specify the CLI version, provide the OIDC namespace and service slug, set the API Key, and more. This level of customization ensures that the action fits seamlessly into your existing workflows.

5. Seamless Integration with GitHub Actions 🤝

Designed to work seamlessly with GitHub Actions, this action integrates smoothly into your CI/CD pipelines. Whether you are building, testing, or deploying, the Cloudsmith CLI GitHub Action enhances your workflow automation and efficiency.

Ready to enhance your GitHub Actions workflows with the Cloudsmith CLI? Check out the 

 for more details and start integrating the action into your projects today.

For more information on Cloudsmith and its features, visit the 

For any questions or feedback, feel free to open an issue on the 

 or reach out to the maintainers. Thank you for your support!

Bartosz Blizniak

Senior Support Engineer

Announcing the Release of Cloudsmith CLI GitHub Action 🚀

1 year ago today, I became a Cloudsmither. I joined this incredible company that 

 co-founded because we have an incredible product, built for a massive market, and we were really just getting started.

, the blog stands up as a solid argument for Cloudsmith. We’re displacing legacy artifact management vendors, winning some of their largest enterprise customers with full-scale replacements across hundreds of teams with thousands of developers.

As I approached my 1-year anniversary, I asked myself what 

 makes Cloudsmith special. I landed on three particular qualities of our personality that I think are ultimately the winning qualities that will make Cloudsmith a truly great and historic company.

. Cloudsmith has been multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) from the first lines of code Lee wrote back in 2016. When your native language is cloud SaaS, you solve a different class of problems. You’re constantly optimizing for throughput, performance, and uptime. Internally, our engineers refer to the company as “Cachesmith.” I love that.

Of course, that means that when we add new edge servers, or find a clever way to serve packages, or rebuild indexes, or redistribute worker queues, or improve EFS throughput, our entire customer base benefits. Our small and mid-size customers get the same performance boost as our largest enterprise customers. Without requiring an upgrade, or a maintenance window. SaaS has been the standard in many corners of the software world for the past decade or more, but it’s still relatively rare for artifact management, in part due to sheer scale - we’re moving around data volumes measured in petabytes, after all.

Cloudsmith is constantly thinking about how to make our global package delivery network faster and more reliable, so our customers don’t have to worry about it. Our massive cloud infrastructure is a big barrier to entry; it’d be hard for a startup to compete with us anytime soon. It’s also hard for any single team, at even the largest enterprise, to compete with our level of scale and global reach. By depending on Cloudsmith to power their artifact repositories, our customers get to focus on building their own great software.

. We really care about the internals of all the different package managers. We get excited about trends across the public open-source registries. We keep up on the latest advances in security scanning, provenance, and developer-native distribution. We obsess over how our customers can make their build pipeline more efficient and how we can make it easier to migrate tools to Cloudsmith. We’re giddy about ways to stream more real-time data to our customers’ reporting and analytics tools.

. That’s another way of saying we’re customer-focused, but at Cloudsmith that manifests itself as truly proactive support. We love finding and fixing problems before our customers are even aware of them. When you build a culture that rewards the kind of intellectual curiosity I’ve described here, you’re able to run faster. Sure, we have distinct roles for our customer support engineers and our product engineers. But when a customer issue pops up in our monitoring systems, we swarm the problem. This is true DevOps—our engineering team stays close to the runtime. It’s another aspect of SaaS that legacy on-premise single-instance software companies just can’t compete with.

Cloudsmith solves a boring problem. For our core customer persona—platform engineering teams—boring is good. Platform engineering is responsible to their developer teams for getting packages where they need to go. We do this for our customers, so we’ve solved a really specific pain. Business school 101—focus on what differentiates you; outsource the rest.

 every day. Thank you to Lee and Alan for embracing me, empowering me to lead Cloudsmith, and allowing us to act as a united leadership team. And thank you to all of our customers for your trust and loyalty. We’ll do everything we can to continue to earn them. I’m always open to your feedback: 

Glenn Weinstein

What Makes Cloudsmith Special: Reflections on 1 Year as CEO

Organizations rely heavily on open source packages from public repositories like Maven Central, npm, PyPI, RubyGems, Docker Hub, and many more. While these repositories are vital for development, they also present risks as they are targets for malicious actors exploiting vulnerabilities within the software supply chain.

Many software development teams connect their IDEs and their build tools directly to these public repositories, downloading open source software (OSS) packages without any controls or checks. This can expose your production system to security vulnerabilities and compliance issues.

Cloudsmith’s cloud-native artifact management platform

 is ideally positioned to help you manage and control your open source dependencies. By using Cloudsmith as a dependency firewall, you create a layer of protection between your systems and these threats. A key set of Cloudsmith features, including package management, package scanning, upstreams, and policy management, ensures all binaries and dependencies are verified and controlled so you can increase your level of security and compliance.

Let's explore common hurdles organizations face when managing open source software and proprietary binaries, and how a dependency firewall can mitigate these risks.

It can be difficult to determine what open source dependencies, including transitive dependencies, are in your software builds.

Developers may pull packages directly from public repositories, potentially introducing vulnerabilities.

Public repositories don’t provide any guarantees that a package that was there yesterday, and that you now depend on, will still be there today. The repositories themselves also don’t offer SLAs and may suffer downtime.

Open source software can contain a dizzying variety of licenses. Inadvertently introducing new types of OSS licensing can create a threat to legal compliance and alter the legal status of your software, exposing you to litigation.

Cloudsmith's Dependency Firewall is a set of features built to secure and control your software binaries and their dependencies. Here’s how to use it to empower your team.

Centralize all software assets in Cloudsmith for a comprehensive view of all packages, across all formats. Cloudsmith offers native support for over 30 

, including raw digital assets, so all of these artifacts are subject to the same controls.

Instead of allowing developers to download OSS directly from public repositories, set up 

 to proxy and cache OSS artifacts from public sources through Cloudsmith. Upstreams ensure all dependencies are under your control, safeguarding against outages or unexpected removals of OSS packages from public repositories.

 for vulnerabilities and malware upon upload to Cloudsmith, when they’re fetched from upstream sources.

, so you can be protected against vulnerabilities that may be discovered in a package after it’s already been cached by Cloudsmith.

 and match it against the SPDX License list. You’ll be able to see all OSS licenses you’ve introduced by way of dependencies.

The key to making use of data produced by vulnerability, malware, and license scanning to actually protect your software supply chain is Cloudsmith’s 

. Creating polices allows you to implement sophisticated rules that govern whether packages will be allowed to enter builds, or will be subject to quarantine. Policy types include:

 Cloudsmith can enforce quarantine measures for packages that fail policy checks. This can be configured to prevent quarantined packages from being used until they are reviewed by a security team, and ultimately approved or permanently blocked.

Cloudsmith’s policy engine uses the same powerful boolean logic as our package search engine. This lets you create detailed rules that consider various package attributes, such as version numbers or metadata, ensuring highly targeted and effective policy enforcement.

Your security team may maintain a list of OSS packages that they’ve determined should not be used by your organization, for whatever reason. Create deny lists that prevent the downloading or use of specific packages known to pose security risks or that do not meet your compliance standards.

Enforce compliance with corporate licensing standards by flagging or quarantining packages that use restricted licenses such as copyleft GPL. This helps avoid legal risks associated with non-compliance.

 Automatically flag, and optionally quarantine, packages based on the severity of detected vulnerabilities. For instance, you might set a policy to block any package that has high-severity CVEs. You might also want to notify build teams when medium-severity CVEs are detected.

One of Cloudsmith’s core values is “automate everything.” By leveraging webhooks, comprehensive APIs, and integration with Terraform, you can automate package management to enforce security policies more efficiently. Key automation features include:

: Programmatically manage artifacts, create and enforce policies, query metadata and initiate scans, allowing for deep integration into your software development lifecycle.

: Automate actions within your CI/CD pipelines or integrate with ChatOps solutions (like Slack alerts) to keep your team informed about package events in real time.

: Manage Cloudsmith resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ensuring that your artifact management practices are as robust and reproducible as the rest of your infrastructure.

These automation tools help enforce your Dependency Firewall by ensuring consistent policy application and facilitating proactive responses to security or compliance issues.

A vital component of creating a dependency firewall is securing the identities of developers.

, utilizing Security Assertion Markup Language 

, and provisioning identities using System for Cross-domain Identity Management 

, Cloudsmith ensures that only authenticated users can access and manage software packages. Additionally, with OpenID Connect 

, Cloudsmith supports short-lived access tokens instead of long-lived API keys, significantly reducing the risk of credential theft.

This robust identity management framework prevents unauthorized access and forms a critical barrier in your software supply chain, protecting your assets from potential breaches.

Use Cases for Cloudsmith’s Dependency Firewall

View all your binaries and dependencies in one central location to easily manage and audit your software assets.

View all the dependencies sourced from a public repository by searching for 

Find out if your organization depends on vulnerable packages right from our 

Find all the packages in your organization that violate a policy by 

Use Cloudsmith’s upstreams and policy manager to set up rules and checks on packages that developers pull in. This way, you’re implementing protections 

Protect Against Unreliability External Repositories

Create upstreams against public repositories so all your dependencies are cached in Cloudsmith, safeguarding against availability issues and unexpected removals.

Automatically enforce policies to block or notify about dependencies that use copyleft-style licenses, ensuring compliance and avoiding potential legal disputes.

To safeguard your organization's software supply chain against emerging threats, Cloudsmith provides an essential layer of security with its Dependency Firewall. By integrating package scanning, policy management, and upstream proxying, Cloudsmith ensures that your dependencies are not only secure but fully compliant.

Ready to enhance your security and compliance measures? 

 for a personalized consultation to see how our solutions can meet your specific needs.

Using Cloudsmith as a Dependency Firewall

“Platform engineering is not a DevOps killer; rather, it is an evolution of DevOps that enables true DevOps at scale.”

This was the main takeaway from Luca Galante, VP of Product & Growth with Humanitec, who shared his practical perspective on the current state of DevOps and the rise of platform engineering. Joined by Cloudsmith’s CEO Glenn Weinstein and Chief Strategy Officer Alan Carson, the technology veterans had a candid conversation about the disruption of DevOps during our recent webinar,

From DevOps to Platform Engineering: The Next Evolution

Here are the five key lessons I took away from their in-depth discussion:

The principles that led to the adoption of DevOps are still very much alive and relevant today. DevOps continues to work well in smaller teams where everyone is familiar with the toolchain.

However, challenges arise when scaling DevOps practices to larger teams with hundreds or thousands of developers and a complex toolchain. In such scenarios, expecting every team member, especially new hires, to be familiar with the entire toolchain and perform operations end-to-end is unrealistic, leading to bottlenecks and development delays.

The factors behind DevOps' scalability challenges include:

 Engineering teams have expanded rapidly over the years. For instance, AWS started with around 300 engineers, but some companies have since experienced a hundredfold increase. This growth created a need for more efficient infrastructure and service management.

Expansion of In-House Engineering in Enterprises:

 Over the past two decades, companies like McDonald's and Ford have significantly expanded their in-house engineering teams. What were once small developer groups have become substantial engineering departments, driving demand for platform engineering solutions.

 Companies like Spotify, Google, and Airbnb were among the first to recognize the limitations of traditional DevOps when scaling to onboard many developers. This realization led them to adopt platform engineering practices to streamline operations and collaboration.

Today, with hundreds of thousands of developers navigating complex cloud and hybrid cloud environments, platform engineering has become essential.

2. Platform Engineering Simplifies Cloud Complexity

The rapid expansion of the technology ecosystem, as evidenced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) landscape with its thousands of tools, has introduced layers of complexity for developers. Adding to the intricacy of modern development environments, the significant cloud-native trends that have impacted the need to re-engineer the way DevOps approaches software development include:

 The adoption of containerization technologies, such as Docker, significantly impacted the development landscape by allowing applications and their dependencies to be packaged together, providing consistency across different environments.

 Open-source container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes revolutionized how applications are deployed and managed at scale. However, Kubernetes also introduced new challenges and complexities in managing containerized applications.

 Adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, where infrastructure configurations are managed through code, brought automation and consistency to infrastructure provisioning and management but also introduced control issues.

While these technologies can independently ease processes, their collective intricacies create new challenges for developers. Platform engineering addresses these issues by equipping developers with self-service platforms that effectively abstract and manage these complexities.

3. Platform Engineering Is the Key to Unlocking Developer Autonomy

Recognizing the intertwined nature of DevOps and platform engineering, the challenges of observability and efficiency in large-scale organizations demands standardization to unify distributed teams and fragmented tools.

Platform engineering addresses these challenges by creating an internal developer platform (IDP) that consolidates and streamlines tools and processes, offering a more scalable and integrated solution than traditional DevOps, including:

Platform engineering abstracts complexities by providing a self-service platform layer with “golden paths” that balance ease of use with necessary constraints. This empowers developers to independently access and manage their tools—reducing cognitive load, minimizing workflow delays, and freeing them from infrastructure management.

 By unifying disparate tools and technologies into a cohesive platform, platform engineering enhances observability and integration across the organization. This addresses the inefficiencies and lack of visibility that can arise from managing multiple CI/CD tools, hundreds of language formats, and dispersed development environments.

 Platform engineering delivers a scalable solution that evolves with the organization, overcoming the limitations of DevOps practices that struggle to support large teams. It automates processes and reduces the reliance on manual configurations, which often become bottlenecks in larger enterprises.

 The platform engineering team treats IDP as a product, designed to meet the specific needs of internal developers. This product-oriented approach shifts the focus from traditional infrastructure maintenance to providing a user-friendly platform that abstracts complexities and boosts productivity.

While developers may initially resist the “guardrails” and standardization that platform engineering introduces, they actually do get value with the freedom to focus on what they do best: software development. On the other hand, operations teams are quick to recognize the value of its streamlined workflows and security teams appreciate its automated policy enforcement.

4. Platform Engineering Adoption Requires Key Stakeholder Buy-In

Implementing clearly defined frameworks and processes and driving cultural transformation are crucial strategies for successfully rolling out a platform engineering initiative. Convincing stakeholders—such as developers, security, operations, architects, and executives—can be a significant challenge.

Galante observed that one common pitfall for organizations is attempting to roll out platform engineering to everyone at once. To gain buy-in across the organization, consider these strategies:

 Begin with teams open to experimenting with new technologies, such as application developers, and gradually expand. Success with early adopters can create a positive ripple effect, encouraging wider adoption.

 Engage stakeholders, understand their interests, and tailor messaging to address their specific concerns. Align the platform's benefits with individual and organizational goals to increase the likelihood of adoption.

 Ensure the platform is user-friendly and enhances efficiency. Emphasize benefits like faster deployment times, reduced manual tasks, and improved productivity to motivate developers to embrace the new platform. Demonstrating these advantages can accelerate adoption.

With these steps in mind, you’ll be well on your way to creating a more scalable, integrated, and developer-friendly environment while overcoming traditional DevOps limitations.

5. Platform Engineering Is Empowering Software Development

The primary role of a platform engineering team is to provide an internal developer platform that makes decisions on behalf of developers, allowing them to focus on their areas of expertise without needing to be generalists. It is about driving standardization by design across your entire engineering setup.

While many resist leaving behind their homegrown or legacy platforms, the benefits for large-scale organizations make the choice clear. With platform engineering in place, you will:

 Enable developer self-service to reduce the cognitive load on developers and prevent them from being stuck waiting for resources.

 Address the constant flow of operational tickets that burden ops teams, preventing them from becoming organizational bottlenecks.

 Minimize manual configurations and ad hoc solutions to improve scalability within the organization.

Galante, who also leads PlatformCon, estimates that 20-30% of large software organizations with around a hundred developers already have a platform engineering team or practice—a growing trend. Gartner predicts this adoption rate will reach 80% within two years, driving significant organizational transformations.* As platform engineering becomes more widespread, these organizations will see substantial improvements in processes, productivity, and security.

If you are considering platform engineering, 

. You’ll get to hear directly from the experts who do a deeper dive into how IDPs can promote greater agility and innovation and the critical success factors you need to know before you transition.

Make sure to also grab your free copy of Omdia's industry report 

Market Disruptors: Moving to Platform Engineering Does Not Mean the End of DevOps

 for advice on planning your platform engineering strategy, benchmarking data, and insights on key tools helping teams to accelerate their transition.

Gartner’s Top Technology Trends for 2024

5 Lessons on the Evolution From DevOps to Platform Engineering

Dependencies in a software project are a frequent source of security concerns. Identifying and updating outdated dependencies is crucial for maintaining secure and functional software. 

 is a fantastic tool for automating this process, and when paired with Cloudsmith, you get a robust solution for managing both public and private dependencies.

Here's how you can leverage Cloudsmith with Dependabot to streamline your dependency management.

Dependabot works by checking for newer versions of your dependencies and automatically creating pull requests to update them. By integrating Cloudsmith, you can ensure that Dependabot also considers your private packages and adheres to your organization's security and compliance policies.

Cloudsmith provides several key benefits when used with Dependabot, including:

 All dependencies, whether public or private, are fetched from a single, controlled source.

 You can enforce security and compliance policies on all dependencies, ensuring that only approved packages are used.

 By using a single source for dependencies, you avoid discrepancies and ensure that your builds are consistent across different environments.

 Cloudsmith helps you securely consume open-source packages by enforcing policies and filtering out packages that do not meet your security standards.

Cloudsmith upstreams allow you to proxy and cache dependencies from remote and public repositories (e.g., PyPI, Maven Central, Gradle, or NuGet) into your Cloudsmith repository. This setup provides several benefits:

 By caching packages, you mitigate risks associated with service disruptions on remote repositories.

Cloudsmith Blog

Level up your private npm registries in Deno with Cloudsmith

Reflecting on ShipItCon 2024: High-performing teams need flow

Announcing the Release of Cloudsmith CLI GitHub Action 🚀

What Makes Cloudsmith Special: Reflections on 1 Year as CEO

Using Cloudsmith as a Dependency Firewall

5 Lessons on the Evolution From DevOps to Platform Engineering

Fortify Dependency Management With Cloudsmith + Dependabot

Implementing Zero Trust Security With Cloudsmith in 5 Steps

Kong Entrusts Cloudsmith With Global Distribution

12 Signs of Stellar Support in an Artifact Management Vendor

Enhance Security with Chainguard and Cloudsmith

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