INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Five years ago, when the Los Angeles-based enterprise software startup Replicated first launched, it was one of a number of contenders
looking to bring containerized software development tools to businesses.The company initially hitched its star to containerized software
Now the company is launching what it calls KOTS (Kubernetes Off The Shelf), which is a play on commercial off-the-shelf software, Miller
HashiCorp, CircleCI, Gradle, Snyk, GitPrime, Sysdig, Wickr, SignalSciences and many others and has distributed those applications into 1,500
enterprises, including 50 of the Fortune 100.Now, Replicated KOTS enables vendors to easily package an upstream, and fully supported,
distribution of Kubernetes with their application for enterprises which have yet to fully embrace Kubernetes.Once deployed, KOTS gives
administrators the ability to get an application configured and deployed using step-through configuration, automated preflight checks and
Cluster operators can make last-mile configuration changes as overlays that will persist throughout application updates, the company
said.The tools also integrate with internal enterprise image registries to piggyback on the image scanning that enterprises conduct
Additionally, administrators can consolidate application updates to be automatically versioned through internal version control systems like
The idea is to give businesses a way to operationalize and support software developers for alerts and provide tools to manage deployments on
KOTS tools automate the process of delivering and controlling the delivery of software into a system and help to manage the last-mile
