Agentic Upgrades for Open Source Software

Built for Kubernetes, Add-ons, Application Services and 100s of Open Source Software Projects
Automate every phase of your upgrade cycle — from parsing release notes and diffing Helm charts to mapping CRD, dependency, and config changes. Our agent flags breaking changes, EOL risks, and critical defects early and identifies incompatible components and API deprecations. Provides pre‑/in‑/post‑flight validation checks, delivers ready‑to‑apply IaC automation code, and much more ...
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Trusted by Enterprises

"Before Chkk, upgrades were a painstaking process, requiring constant coordination with application teams and careful sequencing of add-on upgrades. With Chkk, we streamlined workflows, automated risk assessments, and improved communication—allowing us to execute upgrades with confidence and reclaim valuable engineering time."

Director, Platform Engineering
Nasdaq-Listed Major Payment Service Provider

"Chkk transformed our upgrade process from a high-risk, manual effort into a streamlined, automated workflow. The level of insight and safety nets they provide is unparalleled."

John Rzeszotarski, VP of Infrastructure
Dexcom Cloud Engineering

"Chkk has allowed us to stay ahead of Kubernetes lifecycle challenges, significantly reducing operational overhead while ensuring compliance across multiple frameworks. By offloading version tracking and compatibility management, our team can now focus on strategic initiatives rather than firefighting upgrade issues."

Salman Khan, Team Lead
Yoti Cloud Operations

"Before Chkk, I was the bottleneck for every complex add-on upgrade, stuck in a cycle of manual work and firefighting. With Chkk’s workflows, I could finally delegate upgrades to other team members who were eager to dive into the challenges. We parallelized upgrades across the team, making the process faster, more efficient, and no longer dependent on a few experts."

Principal Platform Engineer
NYSE-Listed Large Media Enterprise

"Chkk has transformed our Kubernetes upgrade strategy, eliminating costly delays and manual overhead while ensuring a standard multi-cloud upgrade process that works across EKS and GKE. With Chkk, we’ve not only reduced upgrade costs but also improved business continuity by proactively preventing forced upgrades and disruptions."

Director of Infrastructure
Fortune 1000 Media Enterprise

"Managing Kubernetes upgrades at this scale was becoming unsustainable, with rising costs, complex add-on dependencies, and constant coordination challenges. Chkk gave us a structured, automated approach that not only kept us ahead of EKS releases but also eliminated nearly $500K in unnecessary costs while ensuring business continuity."

VP of Infrastructure
Fortune 500 Financial Services Enterprise

Supports 100s of OSS Projects

Istio
Cert manager
Karpenter
Elasticsearch
redis
external DNS
Crossplane
keycloak
grafana
Loki
argo CD
Device Plugin
Cilium
Vault
Kyverno
fluentd
contour
Rabbitmq
Prometheus
Alert Manager
KEDA
Nginx
Calico
Postgres
kafka
argo
Rollouts
envoy
NATs

Cloud Providers

AWS
GCP
Azure

Kubernetes Providers

EKS
GKE
AKS
VMware Tanzu
OpenShift
Rancher
Nutanix
DIY
Self-Hosted

White Paper

Top Reasons to Add Chkk to Your Kubernetes Operational Toolkit Today

Avoid Paying
500% Surcharge
Save
$450k
annually*
On every 100 Clusters
Enhance
Operational Safety
Off set
500+
breakages*
On every 100 Clusters
Speedup and
Derisk Upgrades
Up to
5x
faster
Top Reasons to Add Chkk to Your Kubernetes Operational Toolkit Today

Benefits

Speedup and Derisk Upgrades

With Safety, Confidence, and Peace of Mind

Accelerate

3x to 5x

Cut weeks of work to days. Improve Safety. Avoid pain.

Enhance Operational Safety

Detect and Fix Risks Before They Cause Breakages

Offset

500+
Breakages

Annually for every 100 Clusters. Save 1000s hrs of break-fix effort

Ship Faster Free up Resources

Achieve Organizational Goals Save Time and Money

Liberate

3 to 5
FTEs

Annually for every 100 Clusters. Enhance Productivity and Agility

Avoid Paying 500% Surcharge

AKS Long Term Support (LTS), EKS and GKE Extended Support

Save

$450K

Annually for every 100 Clusters.
Stay ahead. Stay compliant.

Reclaim Redundant Effort

Unify Tooling Across Teams. Save Multiplicative Effort

Recover

1000s
Hrs

of unnecessary upgrade planning & research across entire organization.

Delegate and Parallelize Work

Standardize Workflows, Simplify Reuse, Share Knowledge

Improve

+20%
Productivity

Reduce context switching and time-to-find. Maintain history.

Upgrade Advisory

Upgrade Advisory: Missing External Service Metrics After Istio v1.22 → v1.23 Upgrade

by
Muneeb Ahmad
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Simplifying Keycloak Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Operational Safety

A Practitioner's Taxonomy of Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) Patterns in the Wild

by
Fawad Khaliq
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News

EKS v1.27 EOL and v1.30 Extended Support: Upgrade Deadlines, Costs & Risks

by
Chkk Team
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Hidden Toil

Why Upgrades Are Delayed: The Real, Human, Practical Reasons

by
Awais Nemat
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Seamless Self-Managed Grafana Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: CoreDNS Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Technology

Karpenter vs. Cluster Autoscaler

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Simplifying Contour Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Hidden Toil

5 Reasons Why Delaying Open Source Software Upgrades Is a Bad Idea

by
Awais Nemat
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Seamless cert-manager Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Argo Rollouts Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Upgrade Advisory

Upgrade Advisory: Pods Stuck in Pending During Kubelet v1.30 → v1.31 Upgrade

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Simplifying Self-Managed Apache Kafka Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Seamless Calico Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: NGINX Ingress Controller Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: KEDA Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Streamlining Prometheus Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: RabbitMQ Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Seamless Kyverno Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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News

Google Container Registry Deprecation 2025: How to Migrate to Artifact Registry

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: HashiCorp Vault Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Streamlining Crossplane Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Seamless External DNS Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Case Study

How Dexcom Derisked GKE Upgrades and Sped Them Up by 5x using Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Case Study

Assuring Compliance and Availability for Yoti’s On-Prem Platform with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Case Study

How a Fortune 500 Enterprise Avoided $500K in EKS Extended Support Fees, Achieved 80% Reduction in Prep Time, and Boosted Upgrade Productivity by 200%

by
Chkk Team
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Case Study

How a Fortune 1000 Enterprise Standardized Multi-Cloud (EKS & GKE) Upgrades for 30+ Add-Ons, Avoided 6x Costs, and Achieved an 80% Reduction in Prep Time

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Upgrading Self-Managed Redis

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Simplifying Self-Managed Elasticsearch Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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News

GKE & EKS Extended Support: Are 6x Fees for Supporting Older Kubernetes Versions Justified?

by
Ali Khayam
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Spotlight

Spotlight: Seamless Karpenter Upgrades with Chkk

by
Chkk Team
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Operational Safety

Forced EKS & GKE Upgrades: How to Manage Business Continuity Risks

by
Fawad Khaliq
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Spotlight

Spotlight: How Chkk Streamlines & Safeguards Cilium Upgrades

by
Chkk Team
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Technology

Kubernetes Admission Controllers and Webhooks Deep Dive

by
Chkk Team
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Spotlight

Chkk Spotlight: Istio

by
Chkk Team
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Technology

Pod Disruption Budgets: Pitfalls, Evictions & Kubernetes Upgrades

by
Chkk Team
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Technology

cgroup v1 to v2 Migration in Kubernetes

by
Chkk Team
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Operational Safety

OpenAI’s Outage: The Complexity and Fragility of Modern AI Infrastructure on Kubernetes

by
Fawad Khaliq
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News

EKS launches Auto Mode… How can you adopt it?

by
Ali Khayam
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Change Safety

CrowdStrike outage was the symptom; missing Operational Safety was the cause

by
Fawad Khaliq
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News

GKE Follows EKS & AKS, Launches Extended Support with a 500% Surcharge for Delayed Upgrade

by
Ali Khayam
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News

AKS Long Term Support and EKS Extended Support: Similarities & Differences

by
Ali Khayam
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News

Amazon launches EKS extended support… How does it impact you?

by
Ali Khayam
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Platform Engineering

Platform teams need a delightfully different approach, not one that sucks less

by
Fawad Khaliq
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Technology

Kubernetes Enters Its Second Decade: Insights from KubeCon Chicago

by
Fawad Khaliq
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Company

Launching Chkk Operational Safety Platform

by
Awais Nemat
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Technology

What Makes Kubernetes Upgrades So Challenging?

by
Fawad Khaliq
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Company

4 Lessons from our SOC2 Journey

by
Fawad Khaliq
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Technology

Collective Learning: The Power of Not Repeating Others’ Mistakes

by
Ali Khayam
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Technology

From Fighting Fires to Availability Assurance

by
Fawad Khaliq
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Company

Welcome to Chkk

by
Awais Nemat
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