Launching the new Cloudsmith Web App

Benefits for Cloudsmith Customers

The new web app is designed to give you a clearer picture of the software flowing into and out of your business:

• When you sign in, you'll be presented with crucial information about the health of your Cloudsmith workspace
• The new compliance dashboard shows you vulnerabilities and policy violations across your workspace in a unified view
• We now aggregate and visualise usage information; the data you store and deliver via Cloudsmith, in a much clearer way

We've made dozens of improvements, small and large, to streamline the day-to-day administration of your Cloudsmith workspace.

API Enhancements

The new web app is backed by significant improvements to our REST API. We'll detail these upgrades in a separate post; we've added dozens of new endpoints, making it possible to interact with Cloudsmith programmatically like never before. Automate Everything is a core value of the Tao of Cloudsmith, and we're excited to see what our customers build around our enhanced API.

Work in Progress

The new web app is not yet a like-for-like replacement for cloudsmith.io. There are a number of known gaps in the new web app, including:

• Discrepancies between usage reporting across the old and new web apps, especially for customers who make heavy use of Docker containers
• Signing up or in to the new web app using GitHub or other social logins is not yet available
• Client logs/download logs are not visible inside the app
• Software licences used across your workspace are not yet being aggregated and visualised
• Package groups are not yet available 
• Users can’t upload an avatar, or set an avatar/logo for a workspace
• Selecting multiple packages and carrying out bulk actions is not available yet
• Various styling and user experience improvements

We are working to fill these gaps while addressing feedback submitted during early access. 

Retiring the Legacy Web App

If you are not quite ready to stop using Cloudsmith.io, that's no problem. Both the new and legacy web applications will work in parallel for some time to come. We'll give you and your teams plenty of time to make the switch.

For the up-to-date timeline, see Sunsetting our legacy web app interface.

For Your Teams

You can reference this blog article in communication to your Cloudsmith users. We’ve also prepared a short Cloudsmith Web App Release Notes slide deck that summarises the transition to the new app.

For More Information

We're here to help our customers through the transition to app.cloudsmith.com. Contact us with your questions and feedback. We will publish frequently asked questions about the transition to the new web app here on the Cloudsmith blog.

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