# Enhance Helm with the Replicated Platform

A unified platform bringing everything you need to complement Helm installs, manage app lifecycles, and embed Replicated’s advanced capabilities in your app.

## How it Works

## Go Beyond Helm

1. Pre-check environments before install and gather support bundles of info for troubleshooting  
2. Validate licenses and entitlements for each customer account during installation and configuration  
3. Manage the complete software distribution lifecycle, not just installation and packaging

## Choose your Own Install Method

1. If you and your customers are already comfortable with Helm, you can keep using it  
2. If your customers want a more comprehensive app installer, KOTS plus Helm brings added functionality  
3. If your customers need to create a new K8s cluster for your app, kURL can provide and configure one for them

## Leverage and Share Insights

1. Get detailed reporting and telemetry on customer-deployed instances of your app  
2. Monitor application health, show uptime, and track new release adoption via notifications  
3. Display instance insights for lifecycle metrics natively in your GUI

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## Embed Replicated in your App

1. The Replicated platform is designed to integrate deeply with your app using the Replicated SDK and REST  
2. Create custom domains for your container repos and deliver application images securely  
3. Provide a fully-transparent, white-labelled application lifecycle experience for your customers

## How it helps

### Business benefits

- Improve install success rates  
- Accelerate support issue resolution  
- Gain insights into customer usage  
- Enjoy elite K8s and Helm support  
- Embed Replicated transparently in your app

### Technical benefits

- Complement Helm and K8s  
- Pre-check environments meet requirements  
- Collect complete diagnostic info  
- Keep customers on the latest versions

## Measurable impact

Track your improvements around key performance metrics to understand and improve the delivery and distribution of your application(s) to customers. View data on adoption rate, time to install, uptime, upgrade success rate, and more to make data-driven improvements and drive increased value.

# Our Philosophy

All the challenges around testing supportability, telemetry, and observability are really going to become more and more critical as you get more and more customers, and that’s where Replicated shines. Start with Helm and rely on Replicated to help you scale.

## Explore the Replicated Platform

See how Replicated supports every piece of the Software Distribution Lifecycle.

## Learn more

[Testing Releases in Customer-representative Environments](https://www.replicated.com/blog/testing-releases-in-customer-environments)  
Automatically test your new releases on truly customer-representative environments—same cloud provider, same Kubernetes distribution and version, and even the same entitlements and configuration.

[Helm alone is not enough (for commercial software distribution)](https://www.replicated.com/blog/helm-is-not-enough-for-commercial-software-distribution)  
We love Helm! But, using just Helm for commercial software distribution can only take you so far. Luckily, Replicated's new features perfectly complement Helm to supercharge your deployments.

[Step-by-Step Guide: Troubleshooting a Failed Deployment Using the Compatibility Matrix](https://www.replicated.com/blog/step-by-step-guide-troubleshooting-a-failed-deployment-using-the-compatibility-matrix)  
Our own internal support team utilizes the Compatibility Matrix to re-create unique customer environments. Evans Mungai, Sr. Customer Reliability Engineer, walks through this process.

## Ready to get started?

Explore the product further, or create an account now and start exploring in a Free Trial. You can also contact us if you'd like a demo or to discuss one of our pricing plans.