Distr review
A deployment portal for vendors shipping Docker Compose and Kubernetes apps to customers.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Distr is a software distribution platform for software and AI vendors delivering applications into customer-managed environments. It centralizes customer organizations, deployment targets, releases, artifacts, entitlements, logs, and deployment health, while customers install Docker Compose or Kubernetes applications through agents in their own environments. Its focus is vendor-to-customer deployment rather than general-purpose app installation, making it a fit for teams responsible for distributing and maintaining software across customer systems.
Deployment options and workflow depth are central strengths. Distr supports Docker Compose through a Docker agent and Kubernetes through Helm charts and a Kubernetes agent, alongside Docker Swarm and artifact-based distribution. Vendors can manage application versions, deployment status, logs, metrics, alerts, revision history, and rollbacks. The product is available as a cloud service or self-hosted, and Community Edition is open source. Linux, Windows, and macOS are supported; Docker-agent deployments on Windows or macOS use WSL2 or Docker Desktop. GitHub is the listed integration, so teams with broader ecosystem requirements should assess fit before adopting it.
The published plans distinguish individual customer deployments from partner-oriented and enterprise needs. Community Edition is self-hosted, supports unlimited customers, and allows one deployment per customer. Pro costs $80 per month for one internal user and one customer organization, adding cloud hosting, deployment agents, license management, a customer portal, and email and private Slack support. Business is $160 per month on the same user-and-organization basis, adding reseller and partner organizations, license templates, custom domains, white-label emails, and priority support. Enterprise is $59,000 per year, with unlimited usage, dedicated infrastructure, SAML SSO, and a dedicated support engineer. Choose Distr when customer-environment deployments and their lifecycle are the core need; teams seeking broad consumer-facing app installation may be better served by a different category of tool.
Distr pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Deploy Docker Compose and Kubernetes applications with customer-run agents
- Track versions, artifacts, deployment health, history, and rollbacks
- Offer customer portals, license management, and self-hosted deployment
- Where it doesn't
- Pro starts at $80/month for one internal user and one customer organization
- Community Edition limits deployments to one per customer
- Docker-agent deployments on Windows and macOS require WSL2 or Docker Desktop
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