Cloudsmith: Package Management & Container Registry Solution
Every package. Every container. Every pipeline. Every team.
Packages, containers, ML models and assets end up scattered across tools nobody fully owns, each with its own maintenance burden. Cloudsmith gives you one control plane, and one source of truth, for everything moving through your pipelines.
Every extra tool is another thing to patch and maintain. Cloudsmith is one secure store for every package, container and asset you run.
- Support for 30+ software package formats
- Docker container registry as standard
- Centralize ML model management alongside packages
- Support for raw files and assets of any type
Powerful Features. Simple Control.
We’ve had no platform-impacting downtime for our artifact repository since migrating to Cloudsmith.
Dave Bresci
Senior Manager of Site Reliability Engineering
A separate container registry means separate infrastructure to maintain. Store containers alongside every other format in one fully Docker-compatible registry.
- A feature-complete Docker implementation allows you to push and pull images as you would with Dockerhub
- OCI-compliant architecture built to support containers of various formats long into the future
Repository sprawl rarely happens by design, it just accumulates. Structure repositories the way your teams actually work, and move packages between them with promotion rules.
- Structure repositories in your desired pattern
- Use a single repo to store multiple formats
- Move packages between repos using promotion rules
Direct pulls from public registries leave you with no visibility into what's coming in. Proxy and cache every remote registry through Cloudsmith and apply policy before packages reach your teams.
- Replace direct pulls from OSS registries with Cloudsmith
- Apply policies and checks on OSS packages and ML models before they reach teams
- Speed up your build times with Cloudsmith’s global availability
No visibility means a runaway process is already an incident by the time you see it. Cloudsmith logs every upload and pull, so you can see what's moving before it becomes a problem.
- Complete client logs showing uploads, egress
- Best in class web application designed for oversight
- Log exports to feed into analysis projects and third-party tools
Frequently asked questions
01. Can I migrate from a self-hosted artifact repository to Cloudsmith without downtime?
Yes. Migration tooling handles URL remapping and credential remediation, and a phased rollout keeps pipelines running while repositories move over. Most teams complete a full migration in months, not years.
02. Do we need a separate repository for every package format?
No. Every Cloudsmith repository is multi-format, so Maven artifacts, npm packages, Docker images, ML models and raw files can sit side by side in the same repository instead of one tool per format. That's one less axis of repository sprawl to manage.
03. Can we link repositories together instead of duplicating packages across every team?
Yes. Connected repositories link multiple Cloudsmith repositories so packages from all of them resolve through a single endpoint, with no copying between teams. Packages are visible as soon as they are pushed, with no indexing delay, and you set a priority on each connection to decide which repository wins when the same package exists in more than one.
04. Can Cloudsmith proxy and cache public registries, or do we still need to run our own proxy?
Cloudsmith proxies and caches upstream sources like npm, PyPI and Docker Hub directly inside a repository, so pipelines pull through one endpoint instead of hitting public registries directly. Cached dependencies stay available during upstream outages, and you get visibility into what your teams pull.
05. Does scaling to more teams and repositories mean scaling our own infrastructure?
No. Cloudsmith is fully managed, globally available SaaS, so storage and throughput scale with usage automatically. Add repositories, teams or regions without sizing servers, planning capacity, or taking on more infrastructure to patch and maintain.