The Replicated Blog

Announcing: Helm Air Gap Support

Replicated is proud to announce the support of air-gapped Helm installations. While enabling air gap installations into self-hosted customer environments has been a cornerstone of the Replicated platform for quite some time, this new feature expands Replicated’s air gap support options and gives ISVs more flexibility in determining how to best support their customers’ air gap needs.

Oct 11, 2024

Announcing: The Commercial Software Distribution Handbook

Replicated is proud to announce the Commercial Software Distribution Handbook - a guide written for any and every company looking to distribute their enterprise software into self-hosted environments.

Oct 2, 2024

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights October 2024

Spice things up and see what’s new for the Compatibility Matrix, the Embedded Cluster, KOTS, kURL, the Replicated SDK, Vendor Portal, and Product Documentation. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for October 2024.

Sep 27, 2024

Replicated’s response to the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) Vulnerabilities

On September 23, a researcher revealed on X (formerly Twitter) that they had reported a critical CVSSv3 9.9 score unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability impacting "all GNU/Linux systems". By September 26, the researcher announced that full disclosure was imminent and shared a blog post that allowed Replicated to evaluate its potential exposure. Read more about the vulnerabilities that have been identified.

Sep 4, 2024

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights September 2024

Fall into the latest on the Compatibility Matrix, the Embedded Cluster BETA, KOTs, the Vendor Portal, Troubleshoot, and Product Documentation. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for September 2024.

Aug 7, 2024

Runtime License Enforcement with the Replicated Platform

How do you enforce license terms at runtime for your on-prem software? This is a problem many face, and one of the most common questions we're asked at Replicated. Learn how our licensing provides ways for your company to restrict access to your software during runtime with our Director of Solutions Engineering, Chuck D'Antonio, as he walks through one of his solutions to this problem.

Aug 5, 2024

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights August 2024

Jump into the latest on the Compatibility Matrix, the Embedded Cluster BETA, the Vendor Portal, and Product Documentation. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for August 2024.

Jul 30, 2024

How to Turn a New Contract into an On-Prem License with 1 Click

After closing a new deal for your on-premises software, you’ll need to set your customer up with your software right away! Follow along with our Director of Solutions Engineering, Chuck D’Antonio, as he walks through this process with Salesforce and the Replicated API.

Jul 22, 2024

How Replicated Transforms Your Software Distribution Life Cycle

Replicated can enhance and mature your software distribution architecture at each step of the Software Distribution Life Cycle. At RepliCon Q2, Director of Solutions Engineering, Chuck D’Antonio walked through where most companies start on the Software Distribution Life Cycle and explored how Replicated took them above and beyond.

Jul 2, 2024

Writing Great Documentation for On-Prem Software Distributed with Replicated

At Replicated, we believe that documentation is part of the product. This means that a feature is not considered done until the corresponding documentation is also published. Read about how to get started with (or level-up) your docs, in this blog by our very own Documentation Manager.

Jul 1, 2024

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights July 2024

Soak up all the latest on the Embedded Cluster, KOTS, the Vendor Portal, and Product Documentation. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for July 2024.

Jun 27, 2024

How Replicated Compatibility Matrix caught a KOTS incompatibility issue with EKS 1.30

It's critical to test your software on a variety of different environment configurations when creating and managing distributed software that will be deployed in customer-managed environments. Learn how the Replicated Compatibility Matrix caught a KOTS incompatibility issue with EKS 1.30.

Jun 12, 2024

Why You Should Package the Replicated SDK with Your App

Learn why we recommend Commercial Software Vendors package the Replicated SDK alongside their application, regardless of how their application is packaged or delivered.

Jun 7, 2024

Bridging the Air Gap: Announcing Replicated's Air Gap Telemetry BETA

We're thrilled to announce air gap telemetry, currently in beta. This feature allows you to collect valuable telemetry data even from offline instances, and it is now widely available to all Replicated customers! Read and learn more about this invaluable feature.

Jun 3, 2024

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights June 2024

Dive into the latest on our Compatibility Matrix, Embedded Cluster, KOTS, Vendor Portal, and Product Documentation. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for June 2024.

May 30, 2024

How GitGuardian Partnered with Replicated to Release Self-Hosted

Replicated offers a variety of features that make it easier for teams of any size to distribute self-hosted software. Philippe Gablain, Engineering Lead at GitGuardian, described in his blog, Small Team, Big Wins: Why Size Doesn’t Matter for Self-Hosted, how they structure their organization and product to deliver a great self-hosted option for their customers. Learn how GitGuardian is able to do this by working with Replicated's many features.

May 16, 2024

The Software Distribution Life Cycle Interview

Replicated recently introduced the Software Distribution Life Cycle. Developed through years of trial and error, thousands of conversations with early-stage startups and Fortune 500 companies, and pulling from the expertise of our staff, the Software Distribution Life Cycle represents the stages that are essential for every company that wants to be seen as a leader in self-hosted software.

Apr 30, 2024

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights May 2024

You May be excited to learn about the recent updates to our Compatibility Matrix, Replicated SDK, Vendor Portal, Embedded Cluster and more! Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for May 2024.

Apr 29, 2024

RepliCon Q1 2024 Interview with GitGuardian

In this interview, our CEO, Grant Miller, chats with GitGuardian's, Sr Product Manager, Romain Jouhannet, about how Replicated helps them support on-premise customers. They also explore how they’ve implemented some of our new features, like custom metrics, notifications and license and instance tagging. Watch the video or read the transcript to learn more.

Apr 22, 2024

Publishing to the Marketplace with Replicated

Join our Director of Solutions Engineering, Chuck D'Antonio, as he walks publishing to the marketplace with Replicated, and all of the benefits that come along with it.

Apr 4, 2024

Replicated’s Response to CVE-2024-3094, aka the backdoor in xz library

On March 29th, 2024, a security compromise impacting SSH was unveiled, originating from a vulnerability within the upstream xz/liblzma package. Read about Replicated’s response to CVE-2024-3094, aka the backdoor in xz library.

Apr 2, 2024

New Embedded Cluster - It's in Beta!

Our Staff Product Manager Alex Parker walks through our new Embedded Cluster, now in Beta. Watch the video or read the transcript to learn more.

Apr 2, 2024

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights April 2024

Spring into the latest on our Compatibility Matrix, Vendor Portal and Product Documentation. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for April 2024.

Mar 14, 2024

Benefits of Compatibility Testing for OpenShift

In this walkthrough, Director of Solutions Engineering Chuck D'Antonio highlights how to quickly set up an OpenShift cluster using our new Compatibility Matrix. Utilize the Compatibility Matrix to test the environments of customers in high compliance, high security industries like defense, healthcare, banking, and only keep clusters running when you need them.

Mar 7, 2024

Replicated Release Monthly Highlights - March 2024

Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for March 2024.

Feb 26, 2024

Announcing: Single-node Embedded Cluster Beta!

Today we’re excited to announce the Beta release of our new embedded cluster, specifically for applications that run on a single-node Kubernetes cluster. The new embedded cluster is completely rebuilt to deliver the same value as kURL but with some dramatic improvements. These changes make it easier than ever to deploy and manage your Kubernetes application on-premises while requiring as little knowledge as possible from your customers about things like Kubernetes.

Feb 22, 2024

Step-by-Step Guide: Setting Up Custom Metrics in Replicated's Vendor Portal

Custom metrics are a new feature from Replicated. They can be used by product teams to understand product usage and feature adoption, by sales and customer success teams to identify growth or churn risks, or by engineering teams and support teams to be more informed about their customer's environment. Learn more in this video and step-by-step blog!

Feb 7, 2024

Replicated Release Monthly Highlights - February 2024

In February, it starts to feel like love is in the air… or should I say Compatibility? This month, we have a few great updates to our Compatibility Matrix, the vendor portal, and more. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for February 2024.

Jan 29, 2024

5 Reasons to Add Compatibility Testing To Your Distribution Stack

Compatibility Testing — or testing that your application can be successfully installed on unique combinations of Kubernetes distributions (Openshift, EKS, AKS, GKE, K3s, etc.), versions, and configurations — is a relatively new concept in software distribution. Can you imagine a world where you can be confident that every new customer, and every new release, goes smoothly every time? Compatibility Testing can make that happen.

Jan 23, 2024

Customer Instance Telemetry and Tagging

In addition to high-level Adoption metrics, Replicated’s Builders Plan telemetry provides a number of tactical reporting views including customer reporting and instance telemetry. Coming soon - air gap telemetry!

Jan 11, 2024

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights - January 2024

2024 is spinning up just as fast as an OpenShift cluster in our Compatibility Matrix (for those who haven’t tried it out yet, that’s really fast!). Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for January 2024.

Jan 10, 2024

Evolving DORA’s “Four Key Metrics” for Customer-hosted Software

Replicated’s adoption performance measures help ISVs make and evaluate data-driven decisions about product roadmaps and resource allocation. For a decade DORA metrics have been a powerful way to analyze the success of SaaS products, and we’re excited that, through our Instance Insights, ISVs now have the ability to gain similar visibility into their customer-managed products. Read about how Replicated's Instance insights enables vendors to start to understand some of the key metrics for on-prem software delivery, including Age of Deployed Software, Time to Install, and more.

Jan 4, 2024

Step-by-Step Guide: Troubleshooting A Failed Deployment Using the Compatibility Matrix

Recently, Replicated launched the Compatibility Matrix - a new tool for spinning up ephemeral Kubernetes clusters on over 60,000+ combinations of distributions, K8s versions, and configurations. Our own internal support team utilizes the Compatibility Matrix to re-create unique customer environments when debugging issues, and this same process can be followed by any ISV that’s integrated the Compatibility Matrix and Replicated platform to quickly resolve their own customers’ issues. Evans Mungai, Sr. Customer Reliability Engineer at Replicated, walks through this process.

Dec 11, 2023

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights - December 2023

Wow - 2024 is almost here! It’s time for our final 2023 batch of exciting new capabilities available in the Replicated platform. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for December 2023.

Nov 29, 2023

kURL Add-on EOL Notice

In April 2023, we sent communication about the deprecation and eventual end-of-life (EOL) of several kURL add-ons - Docker, Weave, Antrea, and Longhorn. At this point, all of these add-ons have passed their EOL dates and are no longer supported by Replicated.

Nov 28, 2023

Using Telemetry to Test Your Application Across Customer-Representative Environments

Our Director of Solutions Engineering, Chuck D’Antonio, walks through how to use Replicated’s Instance Insights (telemetry) to set up a GitHub action that tests a vendor’s application across their customer-representative environments. Watch the video or read the transcript to learn more.

Nov 16, 2023

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights - November 2023

Gobble gobble - our Product and Engineering teams have been hard at work getting big features ready in time for the holidays! It’s time for another fresh batch of exciting new capabilities available in the Replicated platform. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for November 2023.

Nov 16, 2023

The Replicated SDK for All!

Replicated now recommends that all vendors include the SDK with their application, regardless of how their application is packaged or delivered. Including the SDK unlocks additional functionality for any vendor’s application. Because the SDK is updated along with the application, new features can easily be made available to your customers without requiring a KOTS update.

Nov 15, 2023

Announcing: Customer Data Export Improvements

Today, we’re excited to announce new and improved ways to export and explore data about your customers and their instances. We've heard from customers that they want instance data in the hands of their analysts so that they can combine it with other data, like from CRMs, and build custom analyses and reporting. We are introducing three ways to do that now.

Nov 14, 2023

KubeCon Chicago 2023: Compatibility Matrix, Custom Keychains, and More

KubeCon Chicago was a blast -- we loved talking with customers, old friends, KubeCon first-timers, and everything in between. If you were able to visit the booth, thank you for stopping by to say hi!

Oct 30, 2023

The Replicated Booth at KubeCon Chicago: Lots of Swag, and Announcing New Features!

We’ve been preparing for KubeCon Chicago for months, and are looking forward to saying hello to old friends, meeting new ones, and showing off what we’ve been building. We’re excited to be sponsoring a gold booth this year, and can be easily found at C10 – right past the main entrance and next to the Rancher booth.

Oct 19, 2023

A mini-interview on Replicated Instance Insights

We sat down with Dexter Horthy, product manager for Instance Insights, to ask him about the progress vendors are making in measuring what matters for their apps running in customer-managed (non-SaaS) environments.

Oct 12, 2023

How Replicated uses the Compatibility Matrix to continuously test our KOTS installer releases on various K8s distributions and versions

Now with Replicated’s new Compatibility Matrix offering, we are able to confidently test KOTS compatibility, and the new Replicated SDK offering, on OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, and more. KOTS testing continues to benefit with each new distribution and version added.

Oct 10, 2023

Announcing: Custom Metrics for Instance Insights

Announcing a new way to use Instance Insights: Custom Metrics. Beyond just instance uptime, app versions, and infrastructure status, vendors can now measure *anything they want* about customer instances.

Oct 9, 2023

Deploying your app for customers doesn’t have to hurt so much

There’s nothing like a good first impression, but most ISVs offer nothing like a good first impression of their app when installing into customer-managed environments. This blog will explore the pain of non-SaaS software installation and updates, and suggest some strategies to improve the experience for both vendors and their customers.

Oct 6, 2023

Replicated Recent Release Highlights - October 2023

Read all about improvements to Compatibility Matrix, Vendor Portal, our SDK, KOTS, kURL, and docs. Check out the release highlights for October 2023.

Oct 4, 2023

How KNIME used Replicated to Modernize Their On-Prem Products

In this video and transcript, Replicated's CEO Grant Miller interviews Jim Falgout, VP of US Operations at KNIME. Hear firsthand how KNIME uses Replicated in their distribution workflow and the success they've found selling into customer-managed environments.

Sep 19, 2023

How to Better Support your App Efficiently in Customer-managed Environments

Research shows that vendors need to make improvements around support efficiency and keeping customers on more recent versions of their apps. Both these factors should contribute to better customer satisfaction (CSAT) and improved net promoter scores (NPS).

Sep 12, 2023

What’s stopping you from distributing your application to customer-managed environments?

Let’s look at the perceived challenges that may be holding some people back. Clearly the concerns aren’t stopping everyone. 39% of software companies who don’t currently offer self-managed or on-premises versions of their products say they plan to open up these new addressable markets within the next year. Hint: Replicated can help!

Sep 7, 2023

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: September 2023

Read all about improvements to Compatibility Matrix, Vendor Portal, our SDK, KOTS, kURL, and docs. Check out the release highlights for September 2023.

Sep 5, 2023

Business is Booming in Customer-Managed Environments

Customer-managed environments pose distinct challenges, and opportunities, for any commercial independent software vendor (ISV), really anyone, who then needs to distribute their application for their business customers. The good news is that business is booming.

Aug 30, 2023

How to Add Continuous Release Testing to Continuous Integration

Diverse operating systems, hardware configurations, and software dependencies among customers can lead to issues that might hinder adoption and satisfaction; thorough compatibility testing as part of your continuous integration (CI) processes minimizes these risks, fostering user trust and loyalty while reducing post-release support burdens.

Aug 22, 2023

Announcing: Instance Telemetry Notifications

Today, Replicated is announcing a new way to get important updates about customers and on-prem instances to help catch problems before they get worse. This new feature helps vendors become proactive in reaching out to prevent support cases.

Aug 10, 2023

Announcing: Vendor Portal Improvements for Helm Installations

Today, Replicated is announcing additional features to complement the recent beta launch of the Replicated SDK for Helm Charts, making it easier for vendors to experiment with Helm CLI installations.

Aug 9, 2023

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: August 2023

It’s time for another fresh batch of exciting capabilities newly available in the Replicated platform. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for August 2023.

Aug 3, 2023

Announcing: New Registry UX and Test Workflows

New updates to the Proxy Registry experience that allow the testing of configured registries directly in the vendor portal and easier configuration of different registry types.

Aug 2, 2023

Introducing the Replicated SDK (beta)

We're pleased to announce the beta availability of the Replicated SDK for all vendors using the Replicated platform. The Replicated SDK is a new feature that's been designed to make Helm CLI based installations more transparent and manageable.

Aug 1, 2023

Helm alone is not enough (for commercial software distribution)

For software vendors with paying customers, there are a lot of distinct capabilities necessary to be successful. While Helm does its specific job of installing apps very well, Helm alone is not enough to handle the full lifecycle of commercial software distribution.

Jul 31, 2023

Testing Releases in Customer-representative Environments

A common challenge for independent software vendors (ISVs) is that the wild diversity of customer-managed operating environments makes testing their application very complex and time consuming. Replicated's Compatibility Matrix offers a solution.

Jul 18, 2023

Replicated Included in The InfraRed 100

Yesterday, Replicated was honored to be included in Redpoint Ventures’ list of top 100 companies transforming cloud infrastructure. The InfraRed 100 highlights companies that “set new benchmarks for reliability, scalability, security, and innovation, enabling businesses to thrive in a cloud era and ushering a new paradigm of building applications”.

Jul 13, 2023

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: July 2023

The fireworks have settled down, but our Product & Engineering teams are still lighting up new features. It’s time for another fresh batch of exciting capabilities newly available in KOTS (our application manager), kURL (our installer), and the vendor portal. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for July 2023

Jul 13, 2023

Revolutionizing Vulnerability Management with VEX

Learn how VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) revolutionizes vulnerability management, and how Replicated is leveraging it to offer a standardized and automated approach to efficiently address vulnerabilities.

Jun 29, 2023

ISV Testing Strategies for Reliability and Compatibility

ISVs should be able to test a release prior to distributing to end-customers. Tests will cascade from quick and simple tests that can be done at every app code commit, to more time consuming complex tests that are run in preparation for a full customer-facing release.

Jun 23, 2023

Why ISV software distribution teams are overworked (and what to do about it)

Teams responsible for the distribution of their software into customer environments overworked and underfunded. We dig into some of the common reasons and look at ways to address this challenge.

Jun 9, 2023

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: June 2023

The summer heat is building and our Product & Engineering teams are bbqing up new features. It’s time for another fresh batch of exciting capabilities newly available in KOTS (our application manager), kURL (our installer), and the vendor portal. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for June 2023 below.

Jun 6, 2023

On-Prem Perspectives: Streaming Data with Meroxa

Meroxa's VP of Engineering Simon Lawrence sits down with Replicated's Sr. Developer Advocate Ian Zink to chat about the importance of having an on-prem offering and the opportunities it unlocks for their small team. By offering an on-prem version of their product, Meroxa is able to pursue high-revenue customers that require high levels of data control and security.

Jun 1, 2023

All K8s are not the same: How ISVs test compatibility

When distributing a Helm chart to hundreds of enterprise customers, it's important for ISVs to ensure compatibility with a range of Kubernetes versions, distributions, configurations, add-ons, and entitlement. Here's how.

May 31, 2023

Using Security as a Catalyst to Improve Application Adoption Metrics

Replicated recently announced new version adoption reporting. If your software adoption metrics signal challenges with your enterprise customers taking on recent software updates, consider using security as an enabler.

May 22, 2023

Announcing: Adoption Reporting

Today, we’re thrilled to be launching some brand-new adoption reporting in the Replicated Vendor portal. Replicated customers can now see key version adoption data rolled up across all their customers. This adoption report will provide not only at-a-glance tactical and operational details, but also key strategic metrics for understanding and improving the quality of the software you distribute.

May 11, 2023

Roundtable with Opal | Better Adoption, Enhanced Security: The Hidden Impacts of Higher Adoption in Software Distribution

Replicated team Andrew Storms (VP, Security), Ian Zink (Sr. Developer Advocate), Dexter Horthy (Sr. Product Manager), and Lance Larsen, Head of Solutions at Opal review Replicated’s new adoption reporting and share a roundtable discussion. They explore how tracking and improving adoption can lead to enhanced security and discuss best practices for measuring adoption metrics in on-prem distribution.

May 9, 2023

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: May 2023

The summer heat is becoming active and our Product & Engineering teams are storming up new features. It’s time for another fresh batch of exciting capabilities newly available in our application manager, our Kubernetes installer, and the vendor portal. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for May 2023 below.

May 3, 2023

Announcing: Regex Config Input Validation

Now in version KOTS 1.98.0+ you can define guardrails using regular expressions to ensure values provided by an end user are valid.

May 3, 2023

Secure Everything Everywhere All at Once

Security requires a comprehensive approach to be successful, and Replicated helps security-conscious vendors and enterprises meet their goals. We can think of 1/ security strategy for the enterprise who wants control of their data and the apps they use, 2/ security approaches used by the vendor building the app, and 3/ security by design that’s embedded within Replicated to facilitate both. This blog will explore the many layers of security that are necessary to protect apps and data in customer-controlled environments – everything, everywhere, all at once.

Apr 28, 2023

KubeCon EU 2023: Swag Awards, Impromptu Interviews, and More!

Wow - a week out, and we are still blown away by all the incredible conversations we had at KubeCon EU. If you visited our booth, you know exactly how we feel. We were able to chat with so many companies about how to optimize their deployments into customer-managed environments, including needs like air gap support, customer telemetry, managing customer licenses, handling upgrades, complementing Helm, and more. Some highlights of the week include –

Apr 14, 2023

The Replicated Booth at KubeCon Amsterdam: Coffee, Art, and Kubernetes

KubeCon EU is April 18 - 21, and we couldn’t be more excited! If you’re going to be at KubeCon, don’t forget to stop by and see us at Booth s34. We’ve been preparing to see everyone in Amsterdam for months - designing our booth to match the beautiful host city, picking the perfect swag, hiring a local live artist, and more.

Apr 11, 2023

Measuring up: The Existential Crisis for Commercial Software Distribution

Independent software vendors (ISVs) need to urgently rethink how they distribute their applications to their customers' self-managed environments (i.e. on-premises, VPC, or air-gapped environments). Without more useful metrics to give them insights to their actual holistic performance, they have hidden problems they can't quantify or address, which threaten their success.

Apr 11, 2023

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: April 2023

As the warm weather is being distributed more widely, our Product & Engineering teams are springing forth new features. It’s time for another fresh batch of exciting capabilities newly available in our application manager, our Kubernetes installer, and the vendor portal. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for April 2023.

Mar 31, 2023

SettleMint | Replicated - How SettleMint ‘Opened the Door to On-Prem Capabilities” with Replicated

SettleMint gives developers the infrastructure and tools they need to quickly and easily build decentralized applications. Once they started using Replicated, they were able to transform their software distribution and use the same code base to distribute their SaaS and on-prem offerings.

Mar 24, 2023

Customer Interview: AI Training Data Anonymization with Subsalt

In this customer interview, we delve into the ways in which Subsalt is utilizing Replicated to facilitate the anonymization of AI training. As an essential aspect of data privacy and security, anonymization ensures that sensitive information is protected and remains confidential. By using Replicated, Subsalt can create a secure environment where data is encrypted, and privacy is maintained throughout the AI training process.

Mar 10, 2023

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: March 2023

Spring is deploying quickly and so are the new features from our Product & Engineering. It’s time for another fresh batch of exciting capabilities newly available in our application manager, our Kubernetes installer, and the vendor portal. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for March 2023 below.

Mar 2, 2023

Happy Women’s History Month from Replicated!

From Grace Hopper to Katherine Johnson, groundbreaking innovations by women have changed the entire landscape of our existence in the best ways. In celebration of Women’s History Month, let’s also introduce a few of the Women of Replicated who are making history themselves.

Feb 21, 2023

Why Replicated has moved away from recommending Longhorn for kURL storage

Replicated recently changed its recommended and default storage provider away from Longhorn and back to Rook and OpenEBS. This post explains the history and reasoning for the new direction for embedded cluster storage.

Feb 16, 2023

Instance Insights: Install Success Rate

Surveying your install success rate gives you insight into the quality of the packaging of your software and how prepared you and your customers are to begin the install. How many attempts does it take before an install is successful? What percentage of installs require more than one attempt? How often are installs successful on the first attempt?

Feb 14, 2023

Announcing: Improved Customer Reporting

Today, Replicated shipped an improved customer reporting view. This builds heavily on the work done in Instance Insights: Instance Telemetry to pull instance insights up to the customer level, aggregating data from all instances deployed for a single customer license.

Feb 9, 2023

Allow Users From Your Company to Auto-Join Your Replicated Team!

We’ve enhanced the experience of onboarding new vendor users by allowing users with a matching email address domain to automatically join your team. It’s no longer necessary to send invites to each user within your organization if you want to allow read-only access to all employees for that specific team.

Feb 8, 2023

How to validate the SBOMs on Replicated Releases

A software bill of materials (SBOM) is a list of components that make up a software product. Most all software products use a combination of open-source and commercial software components from third-party vendors. Because each element has potential security implications, awareness of these sometimes hidden components is critical to understanding any software's current and future cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Replicated has been delivering SBOMs alongside every KOTS, kURL, and Troubleshoot release for some time now. We have recently updated our documentation and processes to make it easier to validate SBOMs on releases.

Feb 7, 2023

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: February 2023

Over half way through winter and spring is nearly on-premises. While the temperatures have been icy, come get some hot new insights from our vendor portal. It’s time for another fresh batch of exciting capabilities newly available in our application manager, our Kubernetes installer, and the vendor portal. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for February 2023!

Jan 27, 2023

Instance Insights: Time to Install

The first metric we’ll dive into in the Instance Insights series is time to install. The time it takes for end users to get a vendor’s software up and running in a new environment is a key indicator of the quality of the packaging, configuration, testing, and documentation of the delivery of a software product.

Jan 24, 2023

How the GitLab Team Made Software Distribution a Core Product Competency

At RepliCon Q4 2022, one of Replicated’s Senior Product Managers, Dex Horthy, sat down with Dilan Orrino, DJ Mountney, and Jason Plum from GitLab and chatted about how their team things of excellence in software distribution.

Jan 20, 2023

Become a Replicated Expert with Hands-on Labs

Replicated hands-on labs are a great resource to learn everything you need to be successful in distributing and supporting your application in your customers’ diverse Kubernetes environments.

Jan 19, 2023

Announcing: Improved Customer Instance Telemetry

This week, Replicated’s Vendor Experience team shipped a complete rebuild of our telemetry and reporting pages for the health and status of vendors’ end-customer instances running in the field. This is the first feature in our improved Instance Insights capabilities theme making it easy for Vendor Support Engineers and other customer-facing staff to understand the health and performance of a customer instance in one place.

Jan 12, 2023

Introducing Replicated Instance Insights: Key Metrics for Customer-Hosted Applications

This is the first article of a series in which we'll dive into using strategic metrics to drive excellence in commercial off-the-shelf software. It's important to align on what to measure and how before launching any customer-hosted or on-prem initiative.

Jan 10, 2023

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: January 2023

Check out the recently shipped Replicated features and release highlights for January 2023.

Dec 19, 2022

Rapid release iteration with Replicated and Tilt

We describe how to setup an inner loop development cycle with Application Manager (KOTS) and use Tilt to automate that inner loop for truly rapid release iteration.

Dec 19, 2022

Replicated Completes SOC 2 Type 2 Audit

Replicated today announced the successful completion of our System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type 2 attestation for security and confidentiality. This achievement reflects the company’s commitment to cybersecurity.

Dec 9, 2022

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: November 2022

November brought with it shorter days and longer nights, but the Replicated Product & Engineering teams were undeterred preparing a feast of new features. See the latest new Replicated features in this edition of Recent Release Highlights!

Dec 6, 2022

Pinning Your kURL Installer for Greater Consistency

Your kURL installer specification allows you to specify what components (add-ons) you want in your embedded K8s cluster. Those component versions can be pinned, which helps get everyone running the same versions.

Nov 28, 2022

When to Choose Self-managed vs SaaS for Your Applications

We believe there is a place for SaaS software, and it is important to understand how the decision between the self-managed vs SaaS is made. This post explains the two primary axes of the decision.

Nov 7, 2022