Sonatype CLM Server - Policy Management

CLM is simply the acronym for Component Lifecycle Management. In much the same way that software follows a process that results in an application, components have their own process as well.

Where various development environments, build systems, and other support tools are used in software development, Sonatype CLM supports the management of component usage throughout your development lifecycle. Rather, it is the set of processes that include development, production, and everything else in between. We tend to call these processes, the ones that manage a component’s lifecycle, governance.

Governance can be a big undertaking though, and can often mean different things within an organization, so let’s distill it down a bit.