CircleCI has expanded access to private orbs for all its customers, including those on the Free plan, enabling organizations to share CI/CD configurations securely within their own projects. Private orbs, unlike public ones, are restricted to the organization that publishes them, offering a way to manage internal tools and frameworks without public exposure. The article provides a guide on creating and deploying private orbs using CircleCI's CLI, emphasizing the importance of the --private flag during the initialization process. It also discusses the benefits of private orbs for tasks like deploying to proprietary infrastructure or handling custom hardware, and explains the development and testing process using CircleCI itself. The piece highlights the similarities between creating public and private orbs, with key differences lying in access permissions and the addition of the --private flag.