[gigatexal]

A community edition/non-paid would be quite nice to be able to trial this out before paying.

This is how an old employer adopted CockroachDB because we trialed the non-enterprise version and then ultimatley bought a license.

[NWMatherson]

I agree. We are planning to launch a free edition with limited size and data retention. For users to try / play with before paying. It is in the works and we hope to have this out in the next few months.

We are also thinking about launching trials too.

[permalac]

Agreed.

Our employer does not invest on this kind of tools, so when a free version does not exist for us the tool does not exist.

We would be happy to provide usage metrics and reports, our company is full open source and open data, and we work/invest time on open projects when possible.

[nyellin]

Not the OP, but I develop a different open source tool for Kubernetes and would love to talk! (Email is in my profile)

[HatchedLake721]

Does your company use paid versions of the open source tools or pay support?

[NWMatherson]

We are planning to open source our agents in 2022!