Allow private Orbs to be viewed on Orb Registry
complete
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Nick Bialostosky
At the moment private Orbs are not appearing on the registry. However, it would be nice if anyone who had access to a private Orb (AKA anyone at the Organization that published it) could view it on the registry. This would likely require some sort of verification of access, maybe even having to log into CircleCI first to verify.
Oran Wilder
complete
Private orbs now have details pages, similar to public orbs in the registry, that you can share with other users in your organization. There are two ways to get the page links.
- Run orb infoin the CLI. The response will include the orb link.
- Go to Organization Settings>Orbs in the CircleCI web app. There is now a table with all orbs authored by your org, including private orbs. Click on the orb name to see details.
Note that you must be logged in, in the browser, for the private orb pages to load correctly. Private orb pages are only visible to authenticated members of your organization. Private orbs are not searchable in the public orb registry.
Oran Wilder
in progress
Oran Wilder
planned
Several updates have been planned to improve the private orbs experience over the next few months. A list UI will come first, followed by CLI improvements. I'll post more updates here as features are completed. Cheers!
Oran Wilder
under review
A UI for private orbs is under review. Tell us more about the information you'd like to see, eg: Orb Details Page, Orb Usage, etc.
Michał Jakubowicz
Oran Wilder: at this point, I'm mostly interested in being able to see Orb details so that users of our Orbs won't have to read their source code to figure out how to use them. Having documentation and usage examples in one place is very important for people other than Orb owners to be able to use them.