Customer Entitlements

Ship and Entitlements

A Replicated Ship application can deliver customer-specific license fields (entitlements), that can be read and consumed in an application.

Note that this requires Ship v0.40.0 or later.

Defining License Fields

This is currently available via CLI/API (The UI is estimated for release Q3 2019) See https://github.com/replicatedhq/replicated/tree/entitlements/client/entitlements for a detailed walkthrough.

Setting Customer Values

Once you’ve defined your entitlements fields, you can set per-customer values on the Customers page in vendor.replicated.com.

Retrieving Values at Runtime

The final step to delivering license fields to an on-prem instance of a Ship application is to run the replicated/titled container and provide it a template function to initialize the values.

Defining the following Ship asset (copy & paste) will render a Kubernetes YAML file that will make the titled service availabe to the cluster:

assets:
  v1:
    - inline:
        contents: |
            ---
            apiVersion: v1
            kind: ConfigMap
            metadata:
              name: titled
            data:
              entitlements.conf: |
                {{repl ShipCustomerRelease | Base64Encode }}
            ---
            apiVersion: apps/v1
            kind: Deployment
            metadata:
              name: titled
              labels:
                app: titled
            spec:
              selector:
                matchLabels:
                  app: titled
              template:
                metadata:
                  labels:
                    app: titled
                spec:
                  containers:
                    - image: replicated/titled:0.2.2
                      name: titled
                      args: ["serve", "--serve_from_file", "/titled/entitlements.conf"]
                      ports:
                        - containerPort: 3000
                          name: titled
                          protocol: TCP
                      volumeMounts:
                        - mountPath: /titled
                          name: titled
                  volumes:
                    - configMap:
                        name: titled
                      name: titled
            ---
            apiVersion: v1
            kind: Service
            metadata:
              name: titled
              labels:
                app: titled
            spec:
              type: ClusterIP
              ports:
              - name: titled
                port: 3000
                targetPort: titled
              selector:
                app: titled

        dest: ./k8s/titled.yaml
        mode: 0777

Once the service is running, License API will be accessible at http://titled:3000/. For example, curl http://titled:3000/license/v1/license or curl http://titled:3000/license/v1/field/<field-name>. For more documentation, refer to the Integration API reference.