# Feature Requests

**URL:** https://community.replicated.com/c/feature-requests/10.md

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## [About the Feature Requests category](https://community.replicated.com/t/about-the-feature-requests-category/705)

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**Author:** [@grant](https://community.replicated.com/u/grant)\
**Replies:** 0

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This is a place to talk about what you’d like to see in Replicated in the future. Hoping for a killer feature that would make your life easier as a software vendor or enterprise cluster admin? Let us know here!

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## [Post install script](https://community.replicated.com/t/post-install-script/1401)

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**Author:** [@Sabrina](https://community.replicated.com/u/Sabrina)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 25, 2024, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/post-install-script/1401 "2024-04-25T12:29:39Z")

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Hi, we have some releases that need customers to do post install manual steps. We’d like to get the commands run automatically for customers. It would also be nice to be able to warn them, that those commands are going …

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## [Kots recycle rule to clean up old releases from Minio pod](https://community.replicated.com/t/kots-recycle-rule-to-clean-up-old-releases-from-minio-pod/1265)

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**Author:** [@Tiago\_Farias](https://community.replicated.com/u/Tiago_Farias)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [September 11, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/kots-recycle-rule-to-clean-up-old-releases-from-minio-pod/1265 "2023-09-11T18:48:35Z")

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Currently, Kots does not have any feature where you set the amount of release version that you want to keep. For frequently updated environments, it is a problem because sooner or later your kotsadm-minio pod will run o…

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## [IPV6 property for Flannel addon](https://community.replicated.com/t/ipv6-property-for-flannel-addon/1285)

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**Author:** [@Sabrina](https://community.replicated.com/u/Sabrina)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2023, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/ipv6-property-for-flannel-addon/1285 "2023-09-01T14:07:31Z")

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Hi, we recently experienced networking interfaces on our VM going up and down constantly. We found that the problem was IPV6 was turned on the VM but support for IPV6 is turned off by default in Flannel. Considering the…

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## [Exposing install logs via the cli](https://community.replicated.com/t/exposing-install-logs-via-the-cli/1159)

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**Author:** [@David](https://community.replicated.com/u/David)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 16, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/exposing-install-logs-via-the-cli/1159 "2023-03-16T17:48:57Z")

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When doing a kots install, if I run into an issue I can see from the cli that my helm deployment failed. Beyond this I don’t think it is possible (or I simply don’t know how) to get more details about why it failed. In …

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## [Can GitOps automatic deployments ignore preflight checks?](https://community.replicated.com/t/can-gitops-automatic-deployments-ignore-preflight-checks/1129)

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**Author:** [@bageldawg](https://community.replicated.com/u/bageldawg)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 20, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/can-gitops-automatic-deployments-ignore-preflight-checks/1129 "2023-02-20T21:15:31Z")

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Our QA environments internally utilize GitOps to automatically pull down new releases to Unstable. This works pretty well until there is a kotsadm update that would cause the preflight to fail based on the version thats …

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## [Conditional custom fields](https://community.replicated.com/t/conditional-custom-fields/1087)

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**Author:** [@dmuley](https://community.replicated.com/u/dmuley)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/conditional-custom-fields/1087 "2023-01-13T12:59:52Z")

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Hello Team, We are looking to use replicated for our internal product feature management where we want to utilize custom license fields that way we can check if the feature is enabled for specific clients or not. Is th…

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## [CLI auto completion](https://community.replicated.com/t/cli-auto-completion/915)

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**Author:** [@Dom](https://community.replicated.com/u/Dom)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2022, 6:12am UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/cli-auto-completion/915 "2022-09-22T06:12:29Z")

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Hey, I couldn’t find anywhere replicated/kots CLI auto-completion for unix systems. Any chance to get this? It would just make life so much easier. Thanks, Dom

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## [KOTS doesn't recognise YAML files if they have comments at the beginning](https://community.replicated.com/t/kots-doesnt-recognise-yaml-files-if-they-have-comments-at-the-beginning/449)

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**Author:** [@MANI\_M](https://community.replicated.com/u/MANI_M)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 20, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/kots-doesnt-recognise-yaml-files-if-they-have-comments-at-the-beginning/449 "2022-03-20T16:25:45Z")

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We were trying to deploy heartbeat in a DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes cluster(v 1.18.8).It is found that whenever there is a comment on top of the YAML files KOTS doesn’t include the YAML definition as shown in the sc…

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## [Support for K3S](https://community.replicated.com/t/support-for-k3s/517)

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**Author:** [@Bingchong](https://community.replicated.com/u/Bingchong)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 29, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/support-for-k3s/517 "2021-03-29T17:46:56Z")

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Hello to you all here on the forum. Does the replicated platform support https://k3s.io/ ? I really like the K3S approach. Looking forward to hear from you Thank you Kind regards Mr. Bingchong

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## [Plans on upgrading Kubernetes cluster to 1.16+ due to 1.15 End Of Life](https://community.replicated.com/t/plans-on-upgrading-kubernetes-cluster-to-1-16-due-to-1-15-end-of-life/493)

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**Author:** [@MANI\_M](https://community.replicated.com/u/MANI_M)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 22, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/plans-on-upgrading-kubernetes-cluster-to-1-16-due-to-1-15-end-of-life/493 "2021-01-22T17:11:30Z")

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With Kubernetes 1.15.12 reachind End Of Life as per this Wikipedia article. Any plans on Supporting Kubernetes 1.16?If So, any ideas on the release date on respective patches?

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## [Reset a file config](https://community.replicated.com/t/reset-a-file-config/475)

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**Author:** [@Zeyuan\_Shang](https://community.replicated.com/u/Zeyuan_Shang)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [December 1, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/reset-a-file-config/475 "2020-12-01T22:12:21Z")

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It seems that after you have uploaded a file for a file-based config, you cannot reset that.

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## [Send custom metrics to replicated](https://community.replicated.com/t/send-custom-metrics-to-replicated/331)

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**Author:** [@jaulz](https://community.replicated.com/u/jaulz)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 21, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.replicated.com/t/send-custom-metrics-to-replicated/331 "2019-06-21T20:05:13Z")

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Is it actually possible to send custom metrics to replicated? For example, I would like to bill by active users and hence I need the current number of users from the custom’s installation. Thanks!
