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Jun 4, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Announcing the New Enterprise Portal: A Secure, Modern Unboxing Experience for Your Enterprise Customers

Discover how Replicated’s new Enterprise Portal transforms the self-hosted software experience with secure installs, branded onboarding, and streamlined support. Learn why it’s the modern replacement for the Download Portal, built for today’s enterprise software delivery needs.

Jun 3, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights - June 2025

Replicated’s June 2025 updates include the GA release of multi-node support for Embedded Cluster, improved proxy deployment options, and extended Compatibility Matrix support for OpenShift 4.18 and Kubernetes 1.33. Additional enhancements include secure supply chain upgrades in the SDK, Alpha access to the new Enterprise Portal, faster air gap bundle builds, and new instance archiving options in the Vendor Portal.

Jun 2, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Deep Dive - Best Practices for Helm Chart Enterprise Readiness

In this Replicated Deep Dive session, Helm maintainers and enterprise software delivery experts break down what it really takes to make your Helm charts enterprise-ready — and why the defaults you use for SaaS delivery aren’t enough in regulated, restricted, or air-gapped environments.

May 27, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated’s Embedded Cluster vs. Existing Cluster: Choosing What’s Right for Your End-Customer

Explore the pros and cons of deploying to Replicated’s Embedded Cluster vs. existing Kubernetes clusters. Learn how to choose the best fit for your customers’ infrastructure, speed, and security needs in this Deep Dive discussion with Replicated’s product leaders.

May 21, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Embedded Cluster Is Now Highly Available: Multi-Node Support Reaches GA

Embedded Cluster 2.4.0 is now GA with multi-node and high availability (HA) support—making it easier than ever to deliver scalable, self-hosted Kubernetes applications.

Apr 30, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights - May 2025

Learn about what's new for Embedded Cluster, the Replicated SDK, and Product Documentation. Check out our recently shipped features and release highlights for May 2025.

Apr 28, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Self-Hosted AI May Be Your Best Defense Against Unwanted Data Training

Discover how self-hosted AI deployments can safeguard your enterprise data from unauthorized use in third-party model training, ensuring privacy and compliance.

Apr 24, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Avoiding the Biggest Mistakes in On-Prem Software Delivery

Discover how to streamline on-premises software deployments by simplifying architecture, avoiding unnecessary complexity, and focusing on user-centric design. Learn best practices to enhance customer experience and reduce support burdens.

Apr 4, 2025
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Product & Engineering

RepliCon Q1 - Summaries and Highlights

In RepliCon Q1, our virtual conference spotlighted innovations in Kubernetes app delivery. Chuck D’Antonio shared how to streamline installs with virtual appliances using our Embedded Cluster. KNIME’s SJ Porter showed how CMX automates testing and validation. Marc Campbell demoed ChartSmith.ai, our AI tool for Helm charts, and Grant Miller previewed the Enterprise Portal, built to enhance installs, security, and customer experience.

Apr 2, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights - April 2025

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

Mar 18, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Air-Gapped AI: Delivering the Transparency and Control Enterprises Demand

Explore how air-gapped AI deployments offer unparalleled control, compliance, and data protection for security-conscious enterprises, addressing the limitations of cloud-only solutions.

Mar 6, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights - March 2025

Spring into what's new for Embedded Cluster, the Vendor Portal, and Product Documentation. Check out our recently shipped features and release highlights for March 2025.

Mar 3, 2025
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Product & Engineering

How to Decide Between Infrastructure-Level Versus Application-Level Data Replication

Explore the key differences between infrastructure-level and application-level data replication. Learn how to choose the best strategy for your self-hosted software's performance, scalability, and control.

Feb 18, 2025
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Product & Engineering

The Enterprise AI Adoption Challenge: A Security Leader's Perspective on Self-Hosting

Explore why self-hosted AI solutions are becoming essential for enterprises. Gain insights from a security leader on balancing innovation with compliance and how modern deployment platforms can help.

Feb 4, 2025
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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.

Jan 23, 2025
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Product & Engineering

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

Learn how to optimize your Helm charts for enterprise-scale self-hosted deployments. Discover best practices for templating essential properties to ensure flexibility and compliance in diverse Kubernetes environments.

Jan 21, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Embedded Cluster Demo - Deploying Into a Customer Environment

Discover how Replicated's Embedded Cluster streamlines Kubernetes application deployment across diverse customer environments. Learn how it automates installation, manages Kubernetes in the background, and enhances user experience through a guided admin console.

Jan 15, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Announcing the General Availability of the Replicated SDK

Discover how the Replicated SDK streamlines self-hosted application deployments by providing operational telemetry, in-cluster APIs, and seamless integration for both Helm and Kubernetes manifest-based applications.

Jan 9, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights January 2025

Jump into the latest and greatest for the Compatibility Matrix, the Vendor Portal, and Product Documentation. Check out our recently shipped features and release highlights for January 2025.

Dec 16, 2024
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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.

Dec 4, 2024
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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.

Nov 26, 2024
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Product & Engineering

Deploying to Air-Gapped Environments with Replicated - Technical Walkthrough

Explore how Replicated streamlines self-hosted software deployments in air-gapped environments. Learn about building air gap bundles, configuring Helm charts, and managing installations with KOTS and Embedded Cluster.

Nov 5, 2024
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights November 2024

Read 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 November 2024.

Oct 21, 2024
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Product & Engineering

Announcing: Helm Air Gap Support

Replicated now supports air-gapped Helm installations, enabling secure, offline Kubernetes deployments. Learn how to configure local registries and manage Helm charts in disconnected environments.

Oct 2, 2024
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

Runtime License Enforcement with the Replicated Platform

Learn how to enforce license terms at runtime for on-premises software using Replicated's platform. Discover methods like init containers and SDK integrations to ensure compliance, even in air-gapped environments.

Aug 5, 2024
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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

Learn how to streamline on-premises software licensing by integrating Salesforce with the Replicated API. Automate license generation upon contract activation, ensuring rapid and accurate customer provisioning.

Jul 22, 2024
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Product & Engineering

How Replicated Transforms Your Software Distribution Life Cycle

Discover how Replicated streamlines each phase of the software distribution lifecycle—from development and testing to release, licensing, installation, reporting, and support—ensuring efficient delivery of self-hosted applications in enterprise environments.

Jul 2, 2024
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Product & Engineering

Writing Great Documentation for On-Prem Software Distributed with Replicated

Learn how to create effective documentation for on-premises software distributed with Replicated. Discover strategies for installation guides, troubleshooting, and managing diverse deployment scenarios.

Jul 1, 2024
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Product & Engineering

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
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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.

Jun 12, 2024
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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. 

Jun 7, 2024
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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.

Jun 3, 2024
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Product & Engineering

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 16, 2024
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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.

Apr 30, 2024
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Product & Engineering

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
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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.

Apr 22, 2024
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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.

Apr 4, 2024
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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.

Apr 2, 2024
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Product & Engineering

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.

Mar 14, 2024
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Release Monthly Highlights - March 2024

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

Feb 26, 2024
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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 16, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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 15, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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.

Oct 19, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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 6, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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.

Sep 7, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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.

Aug 30, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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 13, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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.

Jul 13, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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

Jun 29, 2023
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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Product & Engineering

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
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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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