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Jun 1, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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 9, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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 11, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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 10, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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.

Feb 21, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: January 2023

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

Dec 19, 2022
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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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.

Nov 7, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: October 2022

As the leaves drop, so do the new features. Check out all of the latest features that landed in October

Nov 3, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Enhancing the Replicated App Manager with Rqlite

Starting in v1.89.0, the app manager uses rqlite instead of Postgres to store metadata like version information. This change is the first step toward a more highly available and more supportable app manager.

Oct 26, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Debugging Kubernetes: Enhancements to Troubleshoot

We're happy to announce some new updates for the Troubleshoot project to help make debugging K8s applications more modular and dynamic, including online specs.

Oct 26, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Enhanced Helm is Now Open for Public Beta

Our enhanced Helm offering has progressed to an “open beta” stage. This means both vendors currently using Replicated and the general public are now eligible to apply to join our beta program.

Oct 12, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: Sept 2022

Spring and summer gave autumn a miss, but the Replicated Product & Engineering teams are charging ahead on our product roadmap! Check out all the new stuff in this recap.

Sep 15, 2022
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Product & Engineering

How to run GPU Workloads on a K8s Cluster with kURL

When using kURL for an on-prem Kubernetes installation, it is possible to enable GPU support with some minor changes in the kURL spec. This blog post will guide you through the different steps needed to enable GPUs.

Sep 14, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: August 2022

Summer may be winding down, but the Replicated Product & Engineering teams are moving full steam ahead on our product roadmap! It’s time for another fresh batch of exciting capabilities newly available.

Sep 13, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Troubleshoot.sh (A Guide to Debugging Kubernetes)

Replicated sponsors an open source project called Troubleshoot, follow the link for the official troubleshoot.sh page. There are two major sides to Troubleshoot, which are preflight checks and support bundles.

Aug 31, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Announcing: install applications with the Helm CLI using Replicated

An overview of the new Helm install method with Replicated, and a walkthrough of installing an application using Helm and using the admin console.

Aug 25, 2022
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Product & Engineering

How to Run CIS Benchmark Tests on K8s Clusters Installed with kURL

As part of our continuing effort to help vendors ship software securely to their customers, we added a new feature that enables you to create a Kubernetes node that meets CIS benchmark best practices.

Aug 4, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: July 2022

July was another big month for the Replicated Product & Engineering teams! We have some exciting new capabilities to share based on input from vendors like you.

Aug 1, 2022
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Product & Engineering

The Hidden Pain of DIY On-prem K8s-based Software Distribution

This blog is going to be a little different – rather than tell you about all the wonderful ways Replicated is helping software vendors, we’re going to explore what the experience is for those companies who try to build their own DIY software distribution tooling.

Jul 26, 2022
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Product & Engineering

The Value of Preflight Checks for Software Installation

Preflight Checks allow ISVs to define specific checks for each release to ensure the environment has been appropriately provisioned and all system requirements are met. Read on to learn more about how Preflight Checks reduce customer frustration and speed up the time to value for a newly deployed application.

Jul 14, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Improved Kubernetes Application Management

The admin console application dashboard and version history pages of Replicated's App manager have now been redesigned for aesthetic and functional improvements. Read on for an in-depth look at all of the recent changes for your end customers!

Jul 7, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: June 2022

June was another big month for the Replicated Product & Engineering teams! We have some exciting new capabilities to share based on input from vendors like you.

Jun 2, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: May 2022

We’re always hard at work adding new enhancements and features to Replicated. Read all about them in our newest Replicated Release Highlights blog!

May 26, 2022
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Product & Engineering

How to Use ‘Strict’ Application Preflight Checks to Prevent Unsuccessful Application Installs

This feature enhancement allows you to specify if you want a failed preflight check to block a requested application deployment.

May 24, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Enable Semantic Versioning and Automatically Deploy New Versions

Replicated recently released two great new features that are even more powerful when used together: our new support for semantic versioning and automatically deploying updates.

May 5, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: April 2022

April was an exciting month for us! We’re always hard at work adding new enhancements and features to Replicated. Read all about them in our newest Replicated Release Highlights!

Apr 12, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Adventures in Database Administration - Starring SchemaHero!

Schemhero enables Kubernetes administrators to create, import, and manage containerized databases using the same YAML definitions used for virtually every other component of a Kubernetes cluster. Read how in our new post!

Apr 7, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: March 2022

March was an exciting month for us! We’re always hard at work adding new enhancements and features to Replicated. Read all about them in our newest Replicated Release Highlights!

Apr 5, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Support Bundle Control for Troubleshoot.sh

Believe it or not, our engineers have made troubleshoot.sh even better by creating a supplementary plugin that converts `support-bundle` output from JSON to standard `kubectl` output, saving even more time & flowing seamlessly into standard workflows for Kubernetes admins.

Mar 9, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Watch The “Highway to Helm” Webinar On-Demand

We're all fans of AC/DC, but as it turns out, a lot of Kubernetes developers are fans of Helm charts, as well. Watch our newest webinar, Highway to Helm: Operationalizing Kubernetes App Delivery now!

Mar 7, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Introducing the New Replicated Docs Site!

One of our primary goals at Replicated is to make the distribution and management of your application easy. Read all about our brand new Replicated docs in this announcement post.

Mar 3, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: February 2022

February may be the shortest month of the year, but we’ve still managed to pack in several new enhancements to Replicated. Read all about them in our newest Replicated Release Highlights!

Jan 31, 2022
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Product & Engineering

The Challenges of ‘Day 2’: Q&A with Replicated Product Manager Alex Parker

In this post, we sit down again with Replicated Product Manager Alex Parker to discuss the ins and outs of a Kubernetes app’s Day 2 experience.

Jan 31, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: January 2022

New year, same great product innovation from Replicated! Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for January 2022 below.

Jan 20, 2022
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Product & Engineering

New Features Announced: Improvements to UX, Host Preflights Support Great Product Experience

In upcoming releases of the Replicated app manager and Kubernetes installer, we will introduce two exciting new features that we want you to be aware of.

Jan 18, 2022
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Product & Engineering

NEW: Log In to Replicated Using Google Auth

New and existing Replicated users now have the ability to sign in to their Replicated.com vendor portal accounts using Google Authentication.

Jan 13, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Q&A with Replicated Product manager Alex Parker: The Challenges of “Day 1” Delivery of Kubernetes Apps for Enterprises – and How to Get It Right

In this blog, we’ll show you what’s involved in delivering a modern app to the enterprise, what the challenges are in doing so, and why it’s so valuable to get it right.

Jan 6, 2022
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: December 2021

Wait a minute, what do we mean, “December”? It’s January! Yes, and Happy New Year! Like many of you, we took a little time off between the holidays to cozy up by a fire, sip some hot cocoa, and enjoy some much-needed time off with friends and family.

Jan 3, 2022
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Product & Engineering

New Exciting Support Enhancements for 2022

Happy New Year friends! Replicated Engineering is always working to provide the best support experience for you and your teams. Continuously evaluating and improving our processes for your benefit is a top priority and we can’t wait to share a few new updates with you happening in the new year!

Dec 21, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Repositories Are Not Impacted by the log4j Vulnerability

We’re not affected by any log4j vulnerabilities as our products don’t use Java. If you have any questions or would like additional information, please reach out to success@replicated.com with any inquiries.

Dec 16, 2021
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Product & Engineering

End-to-End Prometheus Alerting Example with Replicated

Observability has emerged front-and-center in the DevOps toolkit for optimizing organizational performance and delivering high-output, high-quality software. Observability methods and tools are evolving rapidly, from scraping and sampling to tracing and indexing.

Dec 15, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Announcing the New Replicated Beta Program

We’ve recently built the Replicated Beta Program! Because we are inventors, designers, and tinkerers at heart; we are constantly iterating on the Replicated product. New capabilities, features, use cases — our imaginations for new Kubernetes (K8s) solutions are limitless.

Dec 11, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Q&A with Replicated Product Manager Justin Nordeste: Geeking Out on “Day 0” for Kubernetes App Developers

We talk to developers every day and know what exceptional specialists they are at designing code to solve their customers’ challenges creatively. But when it comes to configuring and planning for that app to be installed ‘on-prem,’ tasks like installing a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster or setting up the app for delivery of future releases to […]

Dec 9, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Improvements to Helm Hook Support Is Now GA

We have improved our support for Helm charts with additional supported “hooks” and “hook weights.” Replicated also updated its Helm chart install mechanism. Many Replicated vendors have existing investments in Helm, an open-source project that helps to manage Kubernetes apps.

Nov 29, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: November 2021

Are you settling in yet to your autumn vibe? We are! Our team here at Replicated is really enjoying our apple ciders, campfires, and general fall coziness.

Nov 10, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Solving the Problem of Installing Software on Kubernetes – On-Premises and on the Edge

By Jason Bloomberg (@TheEbizWizard) – Intellyx  |  Part 3 of the Intellyx On-Prem Innovation Series In the first two articles in this series (which you can find here and here), my colleague Jason English explained why many enterprises would prefer air gapped software installs over putting software in the cloud.

Oct 30, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: October 2021

October was a big month in our space as we prepared for, sponsored, attended, and presented content at KubeCon 2021! We hope you were able to participate in the show in some way — in person or virtually.

Sep 29, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: September 2021

September is a month of change, as summer leaves us and cooler weather for many helps usher in the early part of fall. Still, our classic Replicated fervor is still in full swing, and we’re back again with a fresh batch of exciting new developments and release highlights.

Sep 21, 2021
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Product & Engineering

New and Improved: API Tokens Now Better Aligned to RBAC Policies

We’ve been hearing from vendors that you want additional flexibility and control over token-based access, so we’ve spent the last several weeks digging into the user problem and exploring best practices and solutions. The result? New and improved tokens, which provide more controlled API and CLI access in the vendor portal!

Aug 30, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: August 2021

Summer may be winding down, but the Replicated Product & Engineering teams are moving full steam ahead on our product roadmap! It’s time for another fresh batch of exciting capabilities newly available in KOTS (Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf), our embedded K8s installer (kURL), and Vendor Web.

Aug 27, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Air Gap On-Prem Use Cases for the Security-Conscious Enterprise

By Jason English (@bluefug) – Intellyx|  Part 2 of the Intellyx On-Prem Innovation Series When I think of the most mission-critical on-premises secure installation scenario of all time, my mind immediately wanders to silos. Missile silos, to be exact.

Jul 29, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: July 2021

Time for another fresh batch of exciting capabilities newly available in KOTS (Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf), and kURL! Check out the recently shipped features and release highlights for July 2021 below.

Jul 2, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: June 2021

This month, we share with you a fresh batch of exciting capabilities newly available in KOTS (Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf), kURL, and Vendor Web. Let’s take a look at some of the recently shipped features and release highlights for June 2021 below.

Jun 17, 2021
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Product & Engineering

The State of On-Prem Series: On-Prem Sales and Demand Are Rising

With the dawn of cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and the rapid adoption among enterprises, there’s one thing that may come as a surprise: on-prem sales and demand are rising, and modern software companies are offering more enterprise delivery options than ever before.

Jun 3, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Performing an Airgap Install on an Existing Kubernetes Cluster

Depending on your background, how word association works in your mind, or your search engine technique, hearing the phrase “airgap environment” might trigger thoughts of anything ranging from spaceships to dishwashers. Despite the interesting and seemingly unrelated word choice, Replicated has not decided to move into the home improvement space – though there may be […]

May 26, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: May 2021

This month, we bring you another post in our ongoing blog series highlighting some of the exciting capabilities newly available in KOTS (Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf), kURL, and Vendor Web. Let’s take a look at some of the recently shipped features and release highlights for May 2021 below.

May 22, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Runthrough: KOTS 101

Greetings and welcome back to the Replicated Runthrough series, where we teach you about each project in the Replicated catalog in simple terms. This week’s episode will be on KOTS – a.k.a. Kubernetes Off The Shelf software.

May 13, 2021
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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.

May 6, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Runthrough: Outdated 101

Greetings and welcome back for the next episode of the Replicated Runthrough series. This time we’re going to discuss Outdated.sh, an open source kubectl plugin that finds and reports outdated cluster images.

Apr 29, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Runthrough: Troubleshoot 101

Greetings and welcome to part two of the Replicated Runthrough series. We’ll will be covering Troubleshoot.sh, a Kubernetes plugin for – you guessed it – troubleshooting host and cluster-level issues.

Apr 22, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Recent Release Highlights: April 2021

Last month we kicked off this new regular blog series where we update you on some of the exciting capabilities newly available in KOTS (Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf), kURL, and Vendor Web.

Apr 21, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Runthrough: kURL 101

TL;DR – kURL deploys entire Kubernetes clusters, pre-configured with as many or as few add-ons as your organization needs, delivered via the cURL utility. Greetings and welcome to our new Replicated Runthrough series, where we teach you about each project in the Replicated catalog in simple terms.

Apr 9, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Build vs Buy: Why On-Prem Matters

Historically, delivering on-prem software has meant building bespoke, manual processes for every customer environment; costing time, resources, and money. Thanks to new, off-the-shelf solutions, delivery, and management have gotten easier than ever.

Apr 5, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Container Image Registries – Huh?!

Greetings and welcome back to our series on getting familiar with the Replicated Vendor Portal. In this episode, we’re going to talk a bit about the different types of container image registries available to use with Replicated KOTS – or any other Kubernetes clusters.

Mar 30, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Get Updated With Outdated

Have you been running a Kubernetes cluster for a while without updating? Do you have concerns that images running in your cluster might be a bit… old? Want a quick, easy, straight-forward solution to updating cluster images that doesn’t take forever to install? Well, we have just the answer for you – Outdated.sh!

Mar 24, 2021
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Product & Engineering

SchemaHero 0.12 Released

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of SchemaHero 0.12. This is our first release as a CNCF Sandbox project, and we are thrilled with the community involvement and progress of the project.

Mar 18, 2021
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Product & Engineering

KOTS Snapshots - Disaster Recovery 101

They say, “An ounce of preparation is better than a pound of cure.” This holds true for many situations, none more so than making sure that your organization is prepared in the dreaded event that something – whether it be an HSD, a fire, a spilled drink, or a flock of wild pigeons – takes […]

Mar 16, 2021
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Product & Engineering

KOTS Snapshots – Disaster Recovery 101

They say, “An ounce of preparation is better than a pound of cure.” This holds true for many situations, none more so than making sure that your organization is prepared in the dreaded event that something – whether it be an HSD, a fire, a spilled drink, or a flock of wild pigeons – takes […]

Mar 12, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Replicated’s Recent Release Highlights: March 2021

As our team and product grows, we’re making big strides with feature improvements to make your Replicated experience even better. This article kicks off what will be a regular blog series announcing new features, with a breakdown of the latest additions to KOTS (Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf).

Feb 27, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Delivering Kubernetes Apps to Non-Kubernetes Users

KOTS is awesome if your clients are already running K8s – but what about the ones who haven’t fully been caught up in the K8s wave yet and are ready to make the jump? Well, the Replicated Vendor Portal offers a solution for that, using another Replicated product named kURL. We’ll definitely talk more about kURL in later blogs, but for now the TL;DR of what kURL is, is that it’s a custom Kubernetes distribution builder and installer that uses a cURL one-liner to build out a cluster. For this specific use case, KOTS is combined with kURL to install Kubernetes, then install your application all in one go.

Feb 25, 2021
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Product & Engineering

KOTS Snapshots with Disaster Recovery – Now GA

Starting in KOTS v1.31.0, the Snapshots feature set that can be used to back up and restore applications, as well as restore from disaster recovery scenarios, is now generally available (GA), further improving Replicated’s Day 2 operational capabilities for third-party software vendors.

Feb 19, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf Software & Why You Need It In Your Life

Greetings friends and welcome to part one of a series on getting familiar with the Replicated catalog. We’re going to start with KOTS – short for Kubernetes-off-the-shelf software.

Feb 12, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Let’s Talk Troubleshoot – Preflight

If you were around in the tech industry back in The Olde Days, before containerization revolutionized infrastructure, you have probably lived through at least one Host Server Down (HSD) caused by a conflict in an OS patch, a missing dependency, an out-of-control logfile or any number of fairly common yet highly annoying reasons.

Jan 28, 2021
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Product & Engineering

Kubernetes Infrastructure vs. Kubernetes Application Management

Interest in the adoption of Kubernetes (K8s) has certainly exploded over the past 3-5 years, but as with any next wave technology, there’s still a lot of confusion in the market about how to best leverage it to accelerate your business goals.

Dec 4, 2020
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Donates SchemaHero to the CNCF

We’re excited to share that SchemaHero has been accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project. While SchemaHero has always been an open source project, we are now transferring ownership to the CNCF.

Jun 10, 2020
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Product & Engineering

SchemaHero 0.9 Released

Today we’re excited to announce the 0.9.0 release of SchemaHero. SchemaHero continues to be an OSS project we use internally and believe others will find useful as they move to Kubernetes.

Mar 25, 2020
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Product & Engineering

Packaging Helm charts as KOTS apps

Replicated KOTS now has native support for packaging Helm charts as a component, or even as a KOTS application by itself. This works for both Helm 2 charts & the new Helm 3 charts.

Dec 21, 2019
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Product & Engineering

Introducing kURL – K8s Distro Creator

kURL is an open source upstream-Kubernetes, custom distro creator. Think of kurl.sh as a link shortener for your favorite Kubernetes base components (aka add-ons). It creates a unique URL for your specific combination of components that can be installed with cURL on a modern Linux server.

Dec 11, 2019
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Product & Engineering

kURL with Replicated KOTS

kURL is an open source project from Replicated that allows anyone to create a custom Kubernetes distro. One of the primary use cases of kURL is for distributing Kubernetes with an application or Helm chart to an enterprise customer who doesn’t have an existing cluster.

Nov 10, 2019
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Product & Engineering

KOTS Demo Video

We recently recorded a demo of installing a Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf (KOTS) application as a private instance. In this video we play the role of both application vendor and enterprise IT admin, so you have to follow along closely to catch some of the nuance of the demo.

Nov 7, 2019
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Product & Engineering

Announcing Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf (KOTS) Software

Today Replicated is announcing its new Replicated KOTS platform. Replicated KOTS provides software vendors with the tools they need to operationalize and scale the distribution of their Kubernetes application into enterprise environments. Those tools include Kubernetes-native versions of release channels, customer license management, automated troubleshooting and a nextgen end-customer admin experience.

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