--- title: "Artifact management for regulated software engineering | Cloudsmith for TraceLink" description: "TraceLink's engineers ship software that pharmaceutical companies rely on to meet DSCSA requirements. Cloudsmith gives that pipeline the auditability, policy enforcement, and audit trail a regulated software environment requires." canonical_url: "https://cloudsmith.com/loves/tracelink" last_updated: "2026-06-08T11:13:23Z" --- # Artifact management for regulated software engineering | Cloudsmith for TraceLink Cloudsmith for TraceLink ## Built for teams building for pharma. TraceLink's engineers ship software that life sciences and pharma companies rely on to meet DSCSA requirements. Cloudsmith gives that pipeline the auditability and control it needs. [Talk to the team](/company/contact-sales) [See how we compare to JFrog](/switch/jfrog-artifactory) ## The compliance burden on TraceLink's build pipeline Most engineering organizations treat artifact management as plumbing. TraceLink can't. OPUS is software that pharmaceutical companies use to track drugs through an FDA-regulated global supply chain. That means TraceLink's own build pipeline carries a compliance burden most software companies never encounter. Software validation under 21 CFR Part 11 and GAMP5 requires auditability at every stage — including artifacts. With hundreds of engineers shipping Java on AWS, artifact governance at scale is not a theoretical problem. | Without Cloudsmith | With Cloudsmith | | --- | --- | | Artifact history is scattered across ECR, Nexus, local caches, and CI logs. When a validation audit asks what shipped and when, assembling that answer takes days and involves multiple teams. | Every push, pull, policy trigger, and configuration change is logged with full context - who, what, when. Cloudsmith's audit trail is immutable and queryable. When a validation audit asks what shipped, the answer can be found without a manual investigation. | | Vulnerability scanning happens late in the pipeline, if at all. A CVE in a Maven dependency might not surface until it reaches a QA environment. Remediating a vulnerability that reached a downstream stage is expensive and stops development. | Cloudsmith scans every artifact on ingest and re-scans against updated CVE databases continuously. OPA Rego-based policy enforcement quarantines non-compliant packages automatically, before they enter any pipeline stage. The problem never reaches QA. | | Hundreds of engineers across multiple teams means multiple registries, inconsistent tooling, and artifact sprawl. DevSecOps has no single view of what's in use, what's vulnerable, or what's drifted from approved versions. | One control plane for Maven packages, containers, and every other format, across every team. Cloudsmith gives DevSecOps a single view of every artifact in the organization, with analytics, audit logs, and policy enforcement applied uniformly. | | Generating an SBOM requires running separate tooling across multiple repositories, then reconciling the output manually. There is no live inventory of what's actually in production. | Cloudsmith generates SBOMs across your pipelines automatically, giving your security team a live inventory of every dependency, not a snapshot taken at build time that's stale before the release happens. | ## Auditability built into the artifact layer, not added on top. GAMP5 requires that validated software can demonstrate a traceable chain from specification through to deployment. Most artifact management tools were not designed with that requirement in mind. Cloudsmith stores artifacts immutably. Once an artifact is pushed, it cannot be modified, only superseded by a new version. Every action against that artifact is logged: who accessed it, what policy it was evaluated against, whether it passed or was quarantined. That log is the artifact's validation trail, and it doesn't require any additional tooling to produce. - Immutable artifact storage - what passed validation is what ships, provably - Full audit log of every push, pull, policy event, and configuration change - Audit logs exportable for your compliance workflows - Package signing with GPG and PGP standards — provenance at every stage [Learn about supply chain security](/product/software-supply-chain-security) ## Proxy your existing registries for fast, secure deployments Cloudsmith proxies upstream registries -Maven Central, Docker Hub, and others, so open source dependencies resolve through Cloudsmith from day one. Every dependency that transits through Cloudsmith is scanned, logged, and subject to your policy rules. That applies to the artifacts your teams produce and the ones they pull from the internet. [See how Cloudsmith handles security](/product/software-supply-chain-security) For DevSecOps and platform teams ## One control plane. Every artifact. Every team. TraceLink's engineers generating Maven packages, container images, and other artifacts across multiple teams creates sprawl by default. Cloudsmith centralizes that without asking teams to change how they work — the control is in the platform, not in a process document. ### Vulnerability scanning on every artifact Cloudsmith scans every package on ingest, then re-scans continuously as new CVEs are disclosed. A vulnerability that surfaces after your artifact was pushed is flagged automatically - there is no need to trigger a manual sweep. ### Self-service with guardrails Cloudsmith's API, Terraform provider, and OIDC-native auth let development teams provision repositories and manage access without raising a ticket. Your platform team sets the policy; developers move inside it independently. The guardrails are in the platform. ### Full observability across the artifact estate Client logs, audit trails, and package-level analytics give DevSecOps visibility into every artifact request across the organization. Export to tools you already use for your existing analysis workflows. Supply chain security for regulated software ## Your artifact registry is a compliance control, not just a storage layer. TraceLink ships software that pharmaceutical companies use to track drugs through an FDA-regulated supply chain. That means TraceLink's own artifact layer has to meet a standard most software organizations never face. Cloudsmith is designed for that requirement. [Explore supply chain security](/product/software-supply-chain-security) ### Vulnerability scanning with regular re-scan Every package pushed to Cloudsmith is scanned for CVEs and malware before it can be consumed. Cloudsmith re-scans your repositories continuously against updated vulnerability databases - newly disclosed CVEs are surfaced automatically. ### Policy enforcement with OPA Rego Enterprise Policy Manager lets your security team define rules as code using OPA Rego - version-controlled, reviewable, and applied consistently across every repository. Vulnerabilities above a defined severity threshold are quarantined automatically. License compliance violations are caught before they reach your codebase. ### Immutable audit trail for software validation Every push, pull, policy trigger, and configuration change is logged with full context - who, what, when, from where. Logs export to Azure or S3 for your compliance team's workflows. Cloudsmith gives TraceLink the traceability that pharmaceutical and life science regulators require, built into the artifact layer. ### SBOM generation and package signing Cloudsmith generates SBOMs across your pipelines, giving your security team a live inventory of every dependency in production. Artifacts are signed using GPG and PGP standards, giving every consumer confidence in provenance and integrity at every stage. Moving from fragmented tooling ## Consolidating a large artifact estate is manageable. We've done it before. Engineering organizations at TraceLink's scale typically have artifact sprawl: multiple registries, inconsistent scanning coverage, and no unified view of what's in use, a real risk when working with pharmaceutical and life science businesses. Cloudsmith consolidates that without requiring teams to change their build tooling. The migration is structured and supported. [Talk to the team about migration](/company/contact-sales) ### Repository structure mapping Cloudsmith's Migration Toolkit maps your existing repository structure automatically — format by format, with metadata preserved. Maven repositories, container registries, and everything else. ### Phased artifact transfer Artifacts migrate in phases, so your pipelines continue pulling from existing sources until each repository is fully cut over. No big-bang migration. No downtime window. No disruption to active development. ### Endpoint and credential migration CI/CD environment variables and configuration files point to new Cloudsmith endpoints. Upstream proxying means open source dependencies resolve through Cloudsmith from day one, with scanning and policy applied immediately. ### Supported migration with named contacts Cloudsmith's onboarding team works with you through every stage. Named contacts, regular check-ins, agreed deadlines. This is not self-serve documentation — it is a supported migration. Other teams have run it. We'll support yours. [Read more](/customers/cloudsmith-and-thrivent) ## Customers love Cloudsmith [Read reviews on G2](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudsmith/reviews) ## See what Cloudsmith looks like in TraceLink's environment Policy enforcement at ingestion. Quarantine and blocking for vulnerable packages. One platform for every format your teams use. Talk to our team and we'll show you how easy it is to start implementing Cloudsmith. [Explore supply chain security](/product/software-supply-chain-security) [Talk to the team](/company/contact-sales)