On-Premises Software

Why Small AI Companies Must Offer Self-Hosted Solutions to Win Enterprise Deals

For smaller AI companies looking to sell into the enterprise software space—whether using an open-source API or proprietary technology—offering a self-hosted version of your application will soon be non-negotiable for security-conscious ISVs. In fact, this transition is already underway.

Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights February 2025

Learn what's new for the Compatibility Matrix, the Replicated SDK, the Vendor Portal, and Product Documentation. Check out our recently shipped features and release highlights for February 2025.

Product & Engineering

Helm Best Practices to Scale Your Self-Hosted Enterprise Software Distribution: Templating Essential Properties

Unless you have years of experience working with Helm, it can be difficult to decipher the best way to set up your charts. To help with this, Diamon Wiggins, Staff Engineer at Replicated, outlines Helm Best Practices specifically for ISVs deploying into self-hosted customer environments. In this blog, he describes best practices for templating essential properties.

Product & Engineering

Embedded Cluster Demo - Deploying Into a Customer Environment

Deploying Kubernetes applications to diverse customer environments can be a complex and daunting task. Replicated’s Embedded Cluster is here to simplify and streamline the process, enabling software vendors to deliver Kubernetes-based applications effortlessly, regardless of the customer’s technical expertise or infrastructure.

Product & Engineering

Announcing the General Availability of the Replicated SDK

We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Replicated SDK. The Replicated SDK is a Helm chart that is installed as a small service alongside your application, providing access to a ton of valuable Replicated Platform functionality.

Product & Engineering

Replicon Q4 - Summaries and Highlights

In RepliCon Q4, our quarterly virtual conference, we hosted sessions around Helm and defining air-gapped environments. We spoke with a current customer, H20.ai, about deploying AI-applications using our Embedded Cluster. Our VP of Product, Amber, reviewed product highlights from 2024 and looked ahead at the year to come.

Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights December 2024

Read what's new for the Compatibility Matrix, the Embedded Cluster, the Vendor Portal and Product Documentation. Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for December 2024.

Product & Engineering

Deploying to Air-Gapped Environments with Replicated - Technical Walkthrough

The team at Replicated built a robust suite of tools to support distributing enterprise software into self-hosted, air-gapped environments. Paige Calvert, Documentation Manager at Replicated, walks through a diagram detailing what’s going on behind the scenes.

Product & Engineering

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.

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.

Product & Engineering

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.

Product & Engineering

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.

Product & Engineering

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.

Product & Engineering

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.

Product & Engineering

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.

Product & Engineering

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.

Product & Engineering

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.

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.

Product & Engineering

The Software Distribution Lifecycle 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.

Product & Engineering

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.

Product & Engineering

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.

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.

Product & Engineering

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.

Why Are Companies Doing On-Prem Air Gap Installations Now?

By Jason English (@bluefug) – Intellyx| Part 1 of the Intellyx On-Prem Innovation Series Software ate the world. Then SaaS started eating software. Then, cloud started enveloping SaaS. Now, even one flavor of cloud is no longer good enough for most highly distributed software applications.

Product & Engineering

The State of On-Prem: Modern Solutions for a Traditional Problem

Dimensional Research has just released a new report, The State of On-Prem: Modern Solutions for a Traditional Problem, based on a survey sponsored by Replicated.

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