Company
Date Published
Author
Ciara Carey
Word count
2756
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Cloudsmith is a cloud-native package management tool designed to help banks and financial institutions manage their software supply chain securely. It provides universal, multi-format repositories that support various package formats such as Maven, NuGet, Go, Scala, Rust, Docker, Helm, R, Lua, Conda, and raw file formats. The tool blends package management and software supply chain management, storing all software artifacts, dependencies, and metadata in one place. Cloudsmith aims to establish trust and provenance in the software supply chain by surfacing package metadata, including checksums, build information, and dependencies. It also provides automation features through Continuous Packaging (CP) techniques, integrates with CI/CD tools, and supports secure developer-focused tooling such as Cosign and SBOMs. The tool is designed to help banks and financial institutions attract engineers, reduce costs, and improve efficiency by providing a simple solution to secure development artifacts.