I have heard anecdotally that many software vendors expose a self-service portal for current and prospective customers to download a trial license and install their application. Are there any known examples of this in the wild? How can Replicated help accomplish this?
There are a few notable examples of this, and we’ll continue to expand this list as this pattern evolves in the field.
Wallaroo Community
Anyone can visit https://portal.wallaroo.community/ to try out Wallaroo’s community edition, fully self service. If they later decide they want to upgrade to a paid version, Wallaroo’s team already has all the license and customer information provisioned in Replicated, and the instance can be upgraded in-place.
Enterprise Go-To-Market Starter
The Enterprise Go-To-Market Starter is a very old project that uses deprecated APIs, but is still a good dead-simple showcase of how you can host such a portal yourself. While the code is likely out of date for many modern use cases, the architecture diagrams in the project still outline Replicated’s current recommended approach.
There are a few notable examples of this, and we’ll continue to expand this list as this pattern evolves in the field.
Wallaroo Community
Anyone can visit https://portal.wallaroo.community/ to try out Wallaroo’s community edition, fully self service. If they later decide they want to upgrade to a paid version, Wallaroo’s team already has all the license and customer information provisioned in Replicated, and the instance can be upgraded in-place.
Enterprise Go-To-Market Starter
The Enterprise Go-To-Market Starter is a very old project that uses deprecated APIs, but is still a good dead-simple showcase of how you can host such a portal yourself. While the code is likely out of date for many modern use cases, the architecture diagrams in the project still outline Replicated’s current recommended approach.