# packagecloud Reviews **Vendor:** packagecloud **Category:** [Repository Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/repository-management) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 30 ## About packagecloud Packagecloud.io is a trusted, hosted package repository service that simplifies software package management with a unified, developer-friendly interface for an organization's artifacts. Our platform distributes external services for GitHub and GitLab, as well as internal projects for Netflix and Digital Ocean, while ensuring minimal downtime and reducing the risk of supply chain attacks. ## packagecloud Reviews ### 1. Packagecloud facilitates large-scale deployment of my open source projects. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2023 **What do you like best about packagecloud?** I maintain three popular open source projects, including an ISO/ITU-T reference implementation of the JPEG standard that is used by tens of thousands of developers and billions of end users every day as well as high-performance remote display software that is used by numerous corporations and academic institutions. packagecloud provides a convenient, stable, easy to use platform for hosting official RPM and DEB packages built from the releases of my software, which facilitates large-scale deployment. I particularly like the command line interface, which makes it possible to automatically push new packages to packagecloud whenever I push a new release. **What do you dislike about packagecloud?** The command line interface could use more features, such as an rsync-like feature that pushes only the changed packages from a specified set of files or a directory, the ability to list all packages (and their metadata) currently hosted in a repository, etc. **What problems is packagecloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was previously using a file hosting site to self-manage a YUM repository, but that required me to update the metadata manually, and I wasn't able to host an APT repository for my many Ubuntu users. ### 2. Does the job **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giorgio O. | Senior Director Engineering - Data Science Innovation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about packagecloud?** It has been working for us seamlessly for at least 10 years. We've never had an outage nor security issues or data losses of any kind. Billing is clear and timely. No regrets **What do you dislike about packagecloud?** With the move to the cloud, the various providers have alternatives to packagecloud which makes it basically obsolete as a standalone offering so we have been progressively moving out to reduce the number of services and partnerships we manage. **What problems is packagecloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage or RPMs and other legacy artefacts which used to require an on-prem package-manager setup. However this can now easily be done directly in GitHub, AWS or Azure ### 3. Easy to use apt package repo for open source projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2021 **What do you like best about packagecloud?** The packagecloud API and CLI tool are both easy to use and integrate with a CI, such as GitHub Actions, for automatically publishing built packages for users to install via a package management tool (apt/dnf). The packagecloud web UI is also an easy way to run one off actions, such as promoting packages from a testing/staging repo to a production repo. **What do you dislike about packagecloud?** A nice addition would be a way to prune old package versions in a repo from the web UI, or the ability to set a retention policy on how many old versions should be kept. Currently we use the API to achieve this behaviour, as described in this blog post: https://blog.packagecloud.io/api/2015/07/06/pruning-packages-using-the-API/ **What problems is packagecloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Packagecloud allows us to publish new versions of our open source project directly to users when a new release is built. ### 4. Great service to host your repository with some space for improvements **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2022 **What do you like best about packagecloud?** Compelling and easy-to-use service. The documentation is good, the provided scripts help you greatly in the package upload and repo installation. And if you write to them the support is excellent, they try their best to accommodate all your requests. **What do you dislike about packagecloud?** They do not accept Paypall as a payment system. Those will help automate the payment and directly connect the company bank account to simplify the taxes document collection since we are in the EU zone. A lot of mail for review requests. **What problems is packagecloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since we are a small company with packagecloud we do not have to handle our own repository server. This way, we can focus more on the actual code for our product. ### 5. A simple way to get Linux repos **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dmitriy A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2023 **What do you like best about packagecloud?** Simple to use and manage. Removes the need of self-hosting binaries. **What do you dislike about packagecloud?** Some CI templates to build rpm/deb packages would be helpful **What problems is packagecloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes distribution and updates of a CLI tool easy ### 6. Packagecloud is powerful package hosting at the right price. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2022 **What do you like best about packagecloud?** There's quite a lot to like about packagecloud: * comprehensive, well-written documentation * powerful, well-organized API * a nice CLI tool * supports Debian packages (both binary and source, one of the few vendors in this space to do so) * excellent support via email and slack **What do you dislike about packagecloud?** * In the early days, there were some bugs in and around some of the darker corners of the Debian policy on package repositories. I pursued some bug reports and they were addressed. * The CLI tool is implemented in ruby (not my first language) and requires a runtime I don't usually install. * The non-SSO authorization is token-centric which might be a bad fit for some. **What problems is packagecloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem statement is simple: How do I distribute my private and/or proprietary software artifacts to those that need them? The solution brought by Packagecloud allows me to publish, host, and distribute my artifacts in a straightforward manner with all the specificity and granularity that I desire. ### 7. Outstanding developer support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bernie C. | Software Engineer Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2022 **What do you like best about packagecloud?** When we were just getting started with the product, the team hopped on a call with us to get a better understanding of our needs and offered to help tailer custom packages to meet our developer needs. The team is extremely responsive for support and the platform has exceeded our expectations, would highly recommend it. **What do you dislike about packagecloud?** The API is somewhat limited right now but has all the capabilities we need so it isn't restrictive. **What problems is packagecloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** They automate the process of managing and distributing Debian packages for us, saving a lot of time and manpower we had planned to use to set up the process ourselves. ### 8. One stop shop to manage all your packages **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2022 **What do you like best about packagecloud?** Packagecloud supports a good variety of packages and languages. **What do you dislike about packagecloud?** User management has room to improve. We have to add individual users as collaborators. There is no restriction on username. Hard to tell who is who when people gets creative on their username. **What problems is packagecloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing a publicly available repository ### 9. Simplify and extend the reach of your software distribution with PackageCloud.io **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raciel H. | Senior Consultant Workload Automation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2022 **What do you like best about packagecloud?** The simplicity and scope of PackageCloud.io is remarkable. You can package and distribute your applications for most Linux distributions regardless of the programming language you use. The options for continuous integration is also very complete. The website for management has a high integration ratio with the user experience, which makes it nice and easy to use. On the other hand, the documentation is simple, complete and very concise. I would like to point out that the Free subscription is very generous. **What do you dislike about packagecloud?** At this point, I'm digging a little bit. As an extra functionality, I would like the platform to provide options to help give visibility and promote your packages in different ecosystems. **Recommendations to others considering packagecloud:** PackageCloud is definitely an excellent product and I recommend its use at all levels to facilitate software distribution. **What problems is packagecloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use PackageCloud to store and distribute my software packages in the cloud and thus simplify deployment on local servers in different environments (productive and pre-productive). All my customers know where to find a stable version of the product and PackageCloud facilitates the installation and update of applications. The main gain derived from the use of PackageCloud is security, reliability and agility in the deployment of components. ### 10. Amazing support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2022 **What do you like best about packagecloud?** Simple, easy-to-use product. API and CLI enable package upload through automated CI/CD processes. A feature request I submitted received an immediate response and I was able to schedule a meeting with support and engineering to further define my request and identify possible interim solutions. **What do you dislike about packagecloud?** To support multiple versions of the same OS, I have to upload a package multiple times (Debian Buster, Bullseye, etc.). Each separate repository requires a unique token; customers with access to multiple repositories require multiple tokens. **What problems is packagecloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple cloud-hosted package delivery service. Easy-to-use CLI is incorporated into our automated CI/CD pipeline, enabling developers and engineers to focus on other tasks. ## packagecloud Discussions - [What is packagecloud used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-packagecloud-used-for) - 1 comment - [View packagecloud pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/packagecloud/reviews/packagecloud-review-7355823?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-04+17%3A41%3A38+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8d71bf33-f2ae-454d-b309-75be847c9a2b&secure%5Btoken%5D=bb5d7538a151cf20398e1a2cc20a4aa50954d72ca049894ff3c7e2071157e228&format=llm_user) ## packagecloud Features **Functionality** - Deployment-Ready Staging - Integration - Extensible **Functionality** - Package Management - Integration - Code Analysis - Vulnerability Checks **Functionality** - Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Management** - Processes and Workflow - Reporting - Automation **Management** - Package Access Control - Package Tracking - Automation - Rollback **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Continuous Delivery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top packagecloud Alternatives - [GitLab](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (871 reviews) - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,265 reviews) - [Jenkins](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (546 reviews)