Get Your Own Private Alpine Repository

With upstream proxying we'll cache upstream packages for you, for convenient access from Cloudsmith. You can reduce the amount of external repositories you depend on, and you can protect your software and servers from downtime and slowness of official main repositories.

Access your packages and APIs via custom named domains, specified by you. If your company brand and trust is important to you and your customers, custom domains will allow you to present your own company as the endpoint for distribution, APIs and configuration (e.g. retrieving GPG keys). If you're a vendor, you'll likely want this when distributing.

Although Cloudsmith takes care of all your storage and distribution needs, sometimes it pays to have an offline or secondary Cloud backup of your entire package portfolio. With drop copy, we'll synchronise the raw content for all of your repositories to a target destination of your choice.

Security is paramount at Cloudsmith, and we take pride in taking every precaution to secure the service. All communication and storage is encrypted in-transit and at-rest (with 256-bit or hardware-based encryption). Checksums and GPG signatures are provided to detect tampering. For increased trust you can also provide your own GPG key for signing.

Got Slack? Cloudsmith utilises Slack for all of its internal team communication. With the inter-Slack workspace, we will give you a dedicated channel between our Slack instance and yours, for the ultimate in contact with our team. We'll be on-hand to provide support when you need us, as if we were a part of your organisation.

For regulatory and compliance reasons you may wish to store your packages in a specific country or region. Custom storage regions allow you to choose where in the world your packages will be stored, helping you to meet any compliance requirements you may have. Storing your packages closer to where your services and teams operate can also provide significant performance benefits (lower latency) in many cases.

Raw/generic file repositories allow you to upload/store and distribute any kind of file, with the same level of access control and features as any other managed repository.

Track advanced usage of your repositories with detailed usage statistics/metrics. If you need to supplement the builtin views we also offer an API to programmatically access statistics so that you can build your own (soon).

All packages are distributed around the world by a blazing fast global Content Delivery Network (CDN). Let us take off the pressure of having to manage and maintain Enterprise-level software distribution.

Get detailed insight into all actions and events across your account, and get them in an auditable and exportable format. If you have strict requriements around regulation, compliance, and/or security, audit trails will ensure you have ultimate insight into how your account changes over time.

Like basic access logs, advanced access logs allow you to keep track of where and when your packages and assets are being download from. In addition to that, advanced access logs also offer you extended detail on where the access happened, by whom and why. You'll also have access to programatically retrieve the logs for your own processing tools.

For legal or compliance reasons you can enforce users to agree to your custom End-User License Agreement (EULA) before they can download your packages. This is especially useful if you're a vendor or would like to disclaim warranties prior to usage.

Webhooks instruct Cloudsmith to contact your application, or integration when events happen, such as new packages being added. Build complex automated CI/CD pipelines in order to accelerate your DevOps practices.

Automated retention/lifetime rules allows you to automatically manage storage for packages by deleting or moving packages that fall outside of the defined retention rules.

Invoice-based billing allows you to pay for your Cloudsmith account as an invoice rather than via debit/credit cards. This is a convenient option for larger organisations or where there are strict requirements in how vendors are paid. It also tends to be much cheaper than other payment methods.

Management and on-boarding of users for your team can be problematic, especially when working at scale. With SSO you'll be able to link Cloudsmith to an external authentication service, for automatic provisioning of users. In other words, you can user your existing directory services to manage your Cloudsmith organisation.

Basic entitlements allow you to control who has read-only access to your repositories, to download packages and assets. If you need more than just read-only access, then advanced entitlements can enable dynamic provisioning of access, plus restriction by search and time.

Like basic entitlements, advanced entitlements allow you to control who has read-only access to your repositories, to download packages and assets. However, you can also limit what access an entitlement has by search, or you can limit how long a token is valid for by time. As a vendor, you can power your license-based distribution with tokens that are dynamically created via the API, based on your customer needs.

Add granular access controls to your repositories and packages to give appropriate access to collaborators or teams within your organization. Need read-only access for junior developers or one single repository for contractors?

Use your own custom signing (GPG/RSA) keys for packages, to assert ownership and traceability. If you don't have one, don't worry, we'll generate a per-repository signing key for you.

We pride ourselves as a top-tier managed service, and will always work to ensure continuity of service for you. With a guaranteed SLA of 99.5% we'll take additional measures to ensure that your account is maintained as a matter of priority, especially following unplanned downtime.

Take control of geographic edge caching for your assets. With Edge Caching Rules, you're in control of how long assets stay close to your users, all across the world. Known as the Time-To-Live (TTL) expiry. Edge cached assets will be immediately available for use with minimal time required to fetch them. Reduced latency, better throughput, high availability.

The priority upload queue has higher precedence than the non-priority upload queues, and more processing power. When on the priority upload queue your packages will be processed quicker, and will have priority over other packages.

Malware scanning on every package at the point of upload helps to ensure that your ecosystem is free from malware and other potentially unsafe constructs. Watch this space for additional vulnerability management.

Restrict or grant access to your packages based on geographical location, IP ranges or specific IP addresses. If you need to add physical location security to your package management, then Geo/IP Restriction is what you need.

Achieving understanding of how software is licensed and used isn't simple or easy. With license governance Cloudsmith will provide you with insight on licenses across all of your software, and how you use them. You will also be able to set controls on which licenses are permitted, in order to minimise your legal liability for incorrect use.

Collaborate securely with other users in an organisation with no per-seat pricing - In other words, there is no limit to amount of users/seats within an organisation (and no limit to number or size of teams).

Going hand-in-hand with audit trails is the ability for retrieve all events for your account via the firehose API. The firehose API will allow you to hook Cloudsmith into your own monitoring systems to ensure total visibility and control. This unlocks a new level of capability for business intelligence and/or outlier detection.