Distr offers an OCI‑compatible container registry with fine‑grained role‑based access control, security scanning, and license‑based entitlement management for distributing container artifacts to self‑managed, air‑gapped, or edge environments. It includes optional deployment agents for Docker Compose and Helm that automate installations, collect logs, and expose metrics, while dual portals give vendors control and customers a white‑labeled self‑service experience.
Funding
$500K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Software vendors and AI companies often need to deliver applications and container artifacts to customer‑controlled environments such as self‑managed data centers, VPCs, air‑gapped sites, or edge locations. Traditional cloud‑centric registries and deployment pipelines lack the access controls, licensing enforcement, and observability required for these isolated deployments, making distribution insecure, hard to manage, and difficult to troubleshoot.
Solution
Distr provides an OCI‑compliant container registry combined with a software distribution platform that works in fully self‑managed, BYOC, air‑gapped, and edge environments. The registry offers fine‑grained role‑based access control, security scanning, and detailed usage analytics. Built‑in license management lets vendors define custom entitlements, expiration dates, usage limits, and tag‑level restrictions, ensuring only authorized customers can pull specific artifacts. Optional deployment agents for Docker Compose and Helm automate installations, collect logs and metrics, and enable remote troubleshooting without exposing internal networks. A dual‑portal UI gives vendors full control over artifact distribution and customers a white‑labeled, self‑service experience, while integrations with existing OCI tools, GitHub Actions, and Prometheus allow seamless incorporation into established CI/CD workflows.
Target Audience
Primary customers are software and AI vendors, ISVs, and enterprise platform teams that need to distribute containerized applications to self‑managed, VPC, air‑gapped, or edge customer environments.
Features
- OCI‑compatible container registry with fine‑grained role‑based access control and CVE scanning
- Artifact entitlement system that restricts tags per customer based on custom software licenses
- License management with expiration dates, usage limits, signed JWT keys, and dynamic enforcement
- Optional Docker Compose and Helm agents that automate deployments, gather container logs, and expose metrics
- Centralized monitoring dashboard showing deployment status, version history, health metrics, and alerts
- Integration with existing OCI tools, Docker, Helm, and GitHub Actions for automated release pipelines
- Dual portal architecture: vendor portal for full control and white‑labeled customer portal for self‑service
- Support for self‑hosted, SaaS, and hybrid deployments, including air‑gapped and edge scenarios