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title: "Cloudsmith's support for OpenID Connect now generally available"
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last_updated: "2024-01-30T17:00:00.000Z"
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# Cloudsmith's support for OpenID Connect now generally available

In October [we announced we'd added early access support](https://cloudsmith.com/blog/securely-connect-cloudsmith-to-your-cicd-using-oidc-authentication) for securely connecting Cloudsmith to your CI/CD with OpenID Connect. We are happy to announce that Cloudsmith's support for OIDC is now generally available for Velocity and Ultra customers.

**Why does this matter to you?**

CI/CD tools need access to cloud services to publish artifacts, deploy software, and access resources on their cloud provider. So, they need credentials. It's tempting to hard-code them. But long-lived, static credentials and tokens are one of the most common causes of [data breaches](https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/public-cloud-breaches-2022-mccarthy-hopkins/?ref=cloudsmith.ghost.io) in cloud environments, and put your pipeline at risk.

You can use Cloudsmith's support for OpenID Connect to enable short-lived authentication tokens, helping to secure your pipelines against the exposure of credentials. OIDC tokens are a more secure way to handle authentication than long-lived credentials, and they remove the need to store your credentials in your CI/CD platform.

[Read our blog post](https://cloudsmith.com/blog/securely-connect-cloudsmith-to-your-cicd-using-oidc-authentication) to learn more about OIDC authentication and why it matters to you, and check out our documentation on the feature to start using it today.

Documentation: [OpenID Connect (OIDC) overview](https://help.cloudsmith.io/docs/openid-connect)