February Product Update

February was a busy month for us. Here’s what we have been working on.

New Applications

PostHog

• An open-source product analytics platform and an alternative to products like Amplitude, Heap, and Mixpanel.

Clickhouse

• A fast open-source column-oriented database management system that allows generating analytical data reports in real-time using SQL queries.

New Features and Updates

Updates

• Updated dagster chart to the latest version (v1.1.18) by @kwigley in #52

Console

• Console redesign by @maciaszczykm in #125.
• Global app navigation by @maciaszczykm  in #265. This adds a global app navigation to the console subheader.
• Nested tab navigation for app docs by @dogmar in #310. This update adds nested navigation and hash link scrolling to the application' doc pages.
• Add UI support for VPN list/create/delete in Console by @floreks  in #298

CLI

• Generate useful repo README file for CLI by @michaeljguarino in #351
• Add crypto key validation by @zreigz in #342.  This updated added a new command to generate key fingerprint file: plural crypto key-fingerprint.
• Work on adding IAM preflights to cli by @michaeljguarino in #341
• Add repos uninstall command by @michaeljguarino in #337. This update will make a more actionable error message when you haven't configured an installation properly.

Plural

• Redesign onboarding experience by @floreks  in #846. This update creates a whole new onboarding experience with our application installer.
• Add detail on pricing and billing by @dherault  in #856.
• Update App navigation to align with Console navigation by @dogmar  in #875. this updates adds a launch Console button in top-right and updates the layout of clusters.

Improvements and Bug Fixes

• OAuthCallback was hanging in Console. Update made by @dogmar in #273
• We updated the auth/login pages on Console. Update made by @dogmar in #262
• We fixed the plural profile use command. Update made by @zreigz in #344
• We now fix silent errors on configuration failure. Update made by @michaeljguarino in #340
• We now redirect users to the marketplace if they choose to skip onboarding. Update made by @floreks  in #911
• We added an update to not force AWS buckets to destroy. Update made by @michaeljguarino in #868

Docs Updates

• Added a readme for the Plural Artifacts repo: https://github.com/pluralsh/plural-artifacts/pull/539
• Added detailed instructions for setting up credentials for each cloud provider: https://github.com/pluralsh/documentation/pull/167
• Adds the Azure video to the Cloud Shell Quickstart: https://github.com/pluralsh/documentation/pull/169
• Added a Prefect application guide: https://github.com/pluralsh/documentation/pull/158
• Added a guide for the Plural Postgres operator: https://github.com/pluralsh/documentation/pull/153

Content

Since our last newsletter, we’ve posted four articles and had one publication interview us.

How we Deployed PostHog on Kubernetes

Deploying PostHog on Kubernetes is challenging. Here’s how to do it on your own and how we streamlined the deployment with Plural.

Blog | PluralDavid van der Spek

Last month PostHog announced that it was sunsetting support for its platform on Kubernetes. It’s not surprising considering how many moving parts users need to figure out when self-hosting the application. The timing for us was coincidental since our engineering team just spent a large chunk of time figuring out how to add it to our marketplace for our users. We thought it would be a great time to outline how to self-host PostHog on Kubernetes (and how our engineering team went about adding the application to our marketplace for users to deploy the OSS application on Kubernetes without the complexity. Check out the latest from David Van Der Spek.

How to Deploy a Prefect Agent with Plural

In this tutorial we’ll walk you through setting up and deploying a Prefect agent on Kubernetes using Plural.

Blog | PluralAbhi Vaidyanatha

Plural and Prefect work side by side to provide the quickest and easiest deployment path for your Prefect agent so you can get up and running with some of the more advanced concepts that Prefect has to offer, namely deployments. Abhi and Jimmi walk you through the setup and deployment of a Prefect agent using the Plural console and a GCP environment.

Changes to Plural’s Pricing

To make it easy for companies to become successful with Plural quickly with low friction, we have added a Professional pricing tier. Here’s why.

Blog | PluralSam Weaver

To make it easy for companies to become successful with Plural quickly with low friction, we have added a Professional pricing tier. We break down why we added this option and what it looks like in our platform.

Announcing Plural 2.0, Now Live on Product Hunt

We’re happy to share that Plural’s latest launch is live on Product Hunt! We’d love your support and feedback.

Blog | PluralSam Weaver

In case you missed it, we re-launched our platform on Product Hunt and were the No. 3 product of the day. Learn more about our recent release below.

Plural Makes It Easier for Companies to Deploy Open-Source Software

NYC startup Plural empowers companies to host open-source software in their own cloud environment without paying for managed services.

Built In NYCJeff Rumage

Plural was featured in Built In NYCs Future 5 which every quarter features five early-stage tech companies, nonprofits or entrepreneurs in each of these hubs who just might be working on the next big thing. Our CTO and Co-Founder Michael Guarino was interviewed as part of that series. You can check it out below.

Community Growth

Since our last newsletter, we had 73 members join our discord bringing our membership to 530.

Check out our community page.

Connect with us

If you love what we’re doing and want to join our team, head to our careers page! If you don’t see your role there or want to come hang out with us, feel free to reach out to us on our Discord!

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