Fully Remote: Home Office Should Not Be a Financial Burden on Employees
We’re excited to announce our new Replicated home office reimbursement program, and thought it would be best to outline the thinking and work that went into this new policy. Like many of our peers, in 2020 we decided to take our team fully remote. We let go of our LA-based office and began to hire
4 Ways Multi-Prem Software Will Increase Your Enterprise Sales
At first glance, you may have thought the title was a typo – “multi” prem? Not on-prem? Not cloud? You may also be wondering what multi-prem software even means. It’s a legitimate question that begs a deeper explanation. Over the past 20+ years, I’ve witnessed firsthand the evolution of software development and delivery from monolithic
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
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. New Release Highlights KOTS: Now able to configure the
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. Now judging by the name you’re probably assuming that KOTS is another Kubernetes wrapper, similar to Red Hat
Build vs Buy: Decision Time
In our previous posts, we’ve gone through all of the considerations you should explore when it comes to on-prem software delivery and management––from planning to maintenance––and now it’s time for the big decision. Who will get the rose: an outside vendor, or your internal team (and do they even want it?) Read on for the
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. This report surveyed a total of 405 qualified participants from commercial software companies across 5 continents. The primary research goal was to understand and quantify the current use, need, and
Build vs Buy: Execution
So far, we’ve explored cost, time to market, internal resources, and business continuity. Do you have a clear favorite at this point? Have you crossed all of your t’s and color-coded all of your Gantt charts? Keep an open mind as we move forward because we’re about to get into execution. And this is where
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. The Technical Explanation Outdated repeatedly queries readable pods in all readable namespaces, looking for the podspec of container images and any init container
Build vs Buy: Planning for Success
In our last blog post, we talked about how on-prem software for the enterprise isn’t going anywhere. This $400 billion industry dwarfs enterprise SaaS, but it doesn’t often get the attention it deserves. Let’s show it some love. Join us as we explore the biggest question of on-prem delivery and management: is it better to
