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Jan 7, 2026
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights - January 2026

January 2026 highlights include native Velero plugin support in Embedded Cluster, new Vendor API endpoints for managing channels and dev customers, and multiple usability improvements across the Vendor Portal. Security Center (Alpha), Enterprise Portal live updates, and Compatibility Matrix enhancements continue to improve visibility, automation, and day-to-day workflows.

Dec 15, 2025
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Product & Engineering

RepliCon Q4 2025 - Highlights and Summaries

RepliCon Q4 showcased how Replicated is continuing to evolve its platform to meet the realities of enterprise software distribution. From next-generation installers to customer-aware install paths, security visibility, and air-gapped testing, each session emphasized clarity, reliability, and trust. Together, the talks illustrated how Replicated helps vendors confidently deliver software into even the most demanding customer environments.

Dec 2, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights - December 2025

December 2025 highlights include Helm v4 validation in Vendor Portal and new controls for Helm-based installs. Enterprise Portal adds per-customer SAML authorization (Alpha), expanded Support Engineer RBAC, and automatic air gap record creation. Documentation updates improve clarity on support requests, support bundle processes, and end-user Enterprise Portal tasks.

Nov 7, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Enterprise Portal Is Now Generally Available for Embedded Cluster and Helm CLI Installations

Replicated’s Enterprise Portal is now generally available for Embedded Cluster and Helm CLI installations, offering a unified, branded experience for enterprise software delivery. With guided installs, upgrade management, and built-in security insights, vendors can deliver smoother deployments, stronger customer confidence, and a more streamlined path to production.

Nov 5, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights - November 2025

November 2025 highlights include support for custom SSH key pairs and clearer TTL expiration times in Compatibility Matrix, improved security tool detection in Embedded Cluster, and Kubernetes 1.34 support in kURL. The new Security Center (Alpha) in Vendor Portal helps vendors monitor vulnerabilities and strengthen release security. Documentation updates include improved search, enhanced onboarding guidance, and clearer explanations for HelmChart image handling.

Oct 24, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Testing Your Application in Air-Gapped Environments with Compatibility Matrix

Enterprise customers often have strict network policies and require air-gapped environments, but these can be difficult to simulate and test against. Yet, clarity about your application’s network behavior gives confidence to security-minded customers, and leads to smoother installs within highly restricted networks. We built Compatibility Matrix Network Reports so you can verify your application only makes approved network calls and ship with confidence to even your most security-conscious customers.

Oct 10, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Breaking Change: Kubernetes 1.34 Tightens Image Name Resolution Rules — What It Means for You

Kubernetes 1.34 introduces a breaking change for clusters using the CRI-O runtime, such as OpenShift and Oracle OKE — unqualified image names will no longer resolve automatically. This update enhances supply chain security but may cause deployment failures for manifests or Helm charts using short image names. In this post, Replicated explains what changed, why it matters, and how teams can quickly adapt.

Oct 6, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights — October 2025

October 2025 highlights include firewall opening verification (alpha) in Compatibility Matrix, improved Enterprise Portal access from Vendor Portal, and major usability upgrades to release management and customer views. Replicated also added new tutorials for headless and Helm-based installs, refreshed the quick start guide, and introduced a detailed ConfigValues reference in the docs.

Sep 23, 2025
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Product & Engineering

RepliCon Q3 - Highlights and Summaries

This quarter’s RepliCon brought together customer stories, product innovation, and practical best practices from the frontlines of enterprise software delivery. The common theme across all four talks was removing uncertainty—whether in installations, onboarding, real-world deployments, or distribution models. Our speakers shared how Replicated helps vendors deliver secure, consistent, and repeatable experiences to enterprise customers.

Sep 18, 2025
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Company

OpenAI and The Future of Self-Hosted Software

OpenAI’s on-prem deployment of its O3 model marks a turning point: self-hosted AI is becoming the enterprise default. This post unpacks why it matters, what it means for vendors, and how it validates Replicated’s vision for flexible software delivery.

Sep 16, 2025
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Company

Introducing the State of Self-Hosted Survey 2025

Today we’re excited to share the State of Self-Hosted Software Survey 2025, our annual look at how software vendors are adapting to the demands of enterprise delivery. This year’s survey brings together insights from technical and operational leaders across industries to explore how teams deploy, monitor, and support applications in customer-controlled environments.

Sep 3, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights — September 2025

September 2025 highlights include VM network policy controls (beta), Kubernetes 1.33 and SELinux support in Embedded Cluster, smarter updates in KOTS, and registry/SCIM improvements in Vendor Portal. Replicated also added SDK image digest reporting, Enterprise Portal self-serve signups (beta), Troubleshoot retries, and key docs updates.

Aug 11, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Distributing AI Models into Self-Hosted Environments - Lessons from Replicated and H2O.ai

Distributing AI models into air-gapped or customer-managed environments is no small feat—but with Replicated, H2O.ai delivers a flexible, production-ready architecture that works anywhere. We break down how they use Replicated to package, deploy, and operate massive models offline, and share the lessons you can apply to your own self-hosted deployments.

Aug 5, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights — August 2025

Discover what's new in Replicated this August! This month’s highlights include a critical preflight check update for Embedded Cluster, Beta support for self-service license sign-ups in the Vendor Portal, improved Helm install instructions, and a smoother Enterprise Portal onboarding flow. Plus, explore new and updated documentation to streamline setup, support air gap installs, and clarify system internals.

Jul 25, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Strengthening Commercial Enterprise Software Distribution: Replicated’s Recent Platform Enhancements

Explore Replicated’s latest platform updates — from SecureBuild and the new Enterprise Portal to enhanced air gap support — all designed to help software vendors deliver secure, reliable installs into complex enterprise environments.

Jul 16, 2025
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Product & Engineering

For Faster Installs and Fewer Calls: Codify What You Can, Document the Rest

Explore how to reduce enterprise install failures by codifying common issues with preflight checks, documenting what can’t be automated, and using support bundles for asynchronous troubleshooting. By combining these practices, vendors can streamline deployments, cut down on emergency calls, and improve the install experience over time.

Jul 2, 2025
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Company

Replicon Q2 - Highlights and Summaries

We wrapped up Q2 with a strong set of product launches, customer-focused enhancements, and forward-looking capabilities across Replicated. This quarter’s momentum was all about empowering secure delivery, simplifying customer onboarding, and accelerating deployment confidence for commercial software teams.

Jul 1, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Monthly Release Highlights - July 2025

Replicated adds air gap instance record support in the Enterprise Portal (BETA), streamlines CA handling and adds Kubernetes 1.31 support in Embedded Cluster 2.6.0, shows full external image paths in Vendor Portal, and enhances the SDK with minimal RBAC, HTTPS API access, and proxy registry support.

Jun 24, 2025
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Product & Engineering

Replicated Deep Dive - Building a Virtual Appliance

This blog explores how software vendors can use virtual machines—including those built with Replicated’s Embedded Cluster—to deliver fast, reliable, and portable application installs across enterprise environments.

Jun 20, 2025
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Company

Introducing SecureBuild

SecureBuild offers zero-CVE container images for open source software, backed by a business model that’s fundamentally creator-first.

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 7, 2025
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Company

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

Discover why offering self-hosted deployment options is crucial for small AI companies aiming to secure enterprise contracts. Learn how Replicated simplifies the process, enabling secure and scalable on-premises AI application distribution.

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 11, 2024
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Company

Announcing: The Commercial Software Distribution Handbook

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

Oct 2, 2024
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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 30, 2024
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Case Studies

How GitGuardian Partnered with Replicated to Release Self-Hosted

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

May 16, 2024
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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.

Nov 14, 2023
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Company

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

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

Oct 30, 2023
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Company

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

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

Oct 19, 2023
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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 9, 2023
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Company

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

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

Oct 6, 2023
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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.

Oct 4, 2023
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Case Studies

How KNIME used Replicated to Modernize Their On-Prem Products

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

Sep 19, 2023
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How to Better Support your App Efficiently in Customer-managed Environments

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

Sep 12, 2023
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Company

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

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

Sep 7, 2023
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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.

Sep 5, 2023
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Company

Business is Booming in Customer-Managed Environments

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

Aug 30, 2023
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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.

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