Lee Skillen

Chief Code Monkey for Cloudsmith Ltd (@cloudsmith_io) and tinkerer of many things.

Cloudsmith

Cloudsmith's Enhanced Security with Policy Management

Learn all about how Cloudsmith ensures robust cloud-native software artifact management, emphasizing authentication, license compliance, and vulnerability mitigation, all while maintaining a holistic approach to security.

Artifact Management

Why you need an artifact management platform for best-in-class software delivery

Discover the pivotal role of artifact management platforms in software delivery. Learn how Cloudsmith streamlines storage, boosts security, scales effortlessly, and more. Elevate your software delivery with indispensable tools and insights.

Integrations

Managing Users and User Groups: A Guide to OKTA and Cloudsmith Integration

Explore Cloudsmith’s powerful OKTA integration for user and user group management. Dive into the benefits, security considerations, and best practices to optimize user access, streamline workflows, and bolster security in your software operations.

Artifact Management

What Is Universal Artifact Management, and Why Is It Beneficial?

Dive into the world of universal artifact management with our comprehensive guide. Discover the role of Cloudsmith in streamlining software artifact management, the advantages of a cloud-native approach, and the tangible benefits of a dedicated platform for software distribution.

CI/CD Featured

Scaling Software Delivery: Continuous Delivery, Overcoming Challenges, and the Power of Cloudsmith

Explore the intricacies of scaling software delivery, from the nuances of continuous delivery to overcoming common challenges. Dive deep into how Cloudsmith can be the game-changer in your DevOps journey, ensuring agility, security, and efficiency in every release.

Artifact Management

The Essentials of Cloud Package Management

Discover the importance of package management in software development and how Cloudsmith, a cloud-native artifact management platform, can streamline your DevOps processes. Learn about the key benefits of using Cloudsmith for package management, from control and visibility to security and speed.

Artifact Management Featured

Cloud-Based vs Cloud-Native: What’s the difference?

Get to know the differences between cloud-native and cloud-based applications, their benefits, and why a cloud-native tool like Cloudsmith is a game-changer for efficient and secure software artifact management.

Artifact Management

Decoding the Difference: Artifacts vs Packages in Software Development

"Artifact" and "package" are often used interchangeably, but they have distinct differences. Understand their unique roles, learn through practical examples, and discover why distinguishing between them is vital for effective software management and distribution.

Team Featured

Celebrating Success: Cloudsmith Recognized by G2

Cloudsmith celebrates being honored with two prestigious G2 awards: "Best Relationship Summer 2023" and "High Performer Summer 2023". Discover how our commitment to exceptional customer service and a best-in-class software supply chain management platform earned us these badges.

DevOps

10 Awesome Benefits of Artifact Management and Why You Need It

All about artifact management, alongside 10 awesome benefits that any good Artifact Management platform will provide, including added security, traceability, and control.

Cloudsmith Featured

Pricing: A Message from the Founders of Cloudsmith

Alan and Lee talk about the journey of Cloudsmith, and how we got to where we're at today with the latest pricing announcement.

Security

All About Log4j/Log4Shell + Mitigation (CVE-2021-44228 and Beyond)

This article discusses the background, impact, identification, and mitigation of Log4Shell vulnerability, one of the worst vulnerabilities to arise in the past decade.

DevOps

Cloud-Native Pipelines: Secure Software Delivery, Made Simple Dev Week Cloud Workshop Session

Your entire tech stack is likely in the Cloud - so why aren’t your software packages?

Security

Cloudsmith is ISO27001:2013 Certified

Cloudsmith is certified under the Information Security Management Systems standard ISO 27001:2013, the global standard for IT security management policies.

Security

Cloudsmith Not Impacted By CVE-2021-44228 (log4shell / log4j)

Following a security audit, we confirm that CVE-2021-44228 does not impact the Cloudsmith service.

Platform Updates

Announcing Private Terraform Registry Support in Cloudsmith

Cloudsmith provides fully featured Terraform module repositories on all plans, flexible enough for use whether you’re hosting public packages for a public or open-source project, or private packages for your company’s internal needs.

DevOps "Office Hours" (2020-12-09)

Lee Skillen, CTO, joined CloudPosse for a special edition of Office Hours to discuss how Cloudsmith is helping their customers solve the toughest challenges in package management.

Calling all Ultra Velocity Teams

Cloudsmith establishes a new era as it introduces the Ultra Velocity Team pricing plans, alongside a new Service-Level Agreement (SLA). Find out more here.

Lee Skillen, Cloudsmith CTO, on streamlined software packaging, building startups, and on-premise

Lee discusses how Cloudsmith solves the complex issue of streamlined software packaging.

Deploy Software Featured

The Circle Is Now Complete

We're extremely pleased to announce one of the features that we believe brings us full circle in terms of achieving data portability in and out of the service: Webhooks.

Featured

Lights, Entitlements, Actions!

Cloudsmith released Phase II of our API+CLI which gives users greater control over package handling including search, entitlements and package actions. Automation for the win!

Featured

Automation: As Simple as A, B, CLI.

Cloudsmith released Phase 1 of its API+CLI, marking a milestone in which they can support end-to-end packaging, from uploading artifacts, to inspecting/managing artifacts, to entitling, downloading and installing artifacts. Get it from pip today: 'pip install cloudsmith-cli'.

Platform Updates Featured

Open-Source + Infrastructure-as-Code = <3

We rewrote our internal tooling to use Terraform instead of Chef Provisioning, with much gains in productivity, and we released 0.12 of Cloudsmith with major new features such as support for Open-Source repositories. There was much rejoicing!