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Upgrading Kubernetes without downtime… #kubernetes #platformengineering #devops #sre

We have tools for deploying changes at scale, but we lack standardized tooling and safety checks to ensure these changes are safe. It’s time change safety gets the attention and investment it needs to prevent another outage like this! #crowdstrike

Chkk Upgrade Copilot cuts down upgrade research and pre-work by 8x and makes the end-to-end process 3x faster. Upgrades are time-consuming, labor-intensive, error-prone, and risky due to hidden dependencies, unknown incompatibilities across add-ons and layers, and application dependencies on the infrastructure. If you don't upgrade on time, you risk downtime, non-compliance, and surcharges from AKS, GKE, and EKS for running older versions of Kubernetes. Chkk makes upgrades a breeze! #eks #gke #aks #kubernetes

“The technology that powers all three product modules is called Collective Learning. It comprises two key components: 1. ARSigDB A short form for Availability Risk Signature Database, ARSigDB stores codified representations of errors, failures, disruptions, incidents, and outages that have occurred elsewhere. Think of it as a 'CVE for availability'. 2. Knowledge Graph This graph learns of changes happening across hundreds of open-source projects and add-ons in the Kubernetes ecosystem to model their impact and determine the safest upgrade paths. It stores relationships among entities such as: add-ons, their versions, release notes, update considerations, and known defects. So, when you move from one version to another, we can traverse the graph and guide you along the safest path. We can identify what is incompatible, so you don't have to sift through all the raw text of the release notes.” - Chkk CTO & Founder, Fawad Khaliq #collectivelearning #kubernetes #platformengineer

Eliminate risks before they cause incidents. Chkk Risk Ledger identifies and prioritizes Availability Risks that cause errors, failures, and disruptions. - Prioritize your top business-critical risks with clear and actionable insights. - Continuously harden your Kubernetes availability. - Learn from others and avoid repeating their mistakes. 👉 Book a demo here: https://www.chkk.io/ #kubernetes #platformengineering #devops #sre

Do you find upgrading Kubernetes clusters and critical add-ons to be time-consuming, risky, error-prone, and painful? With Chkk, upgrades become a breeze. Upgrade Copilot offloads all the research work of curating release notes, finding the correct next versions, picking blue/green vs. in-place, preverifying steps, and running pre/post-flight checks to help you upgrade safely. You can easily: - Identify what could break, before it breaks. - Offload months of repeated operational toil. - Execute timely and safe upgrades. - Bring down EKS Extended Support/AKS LTS cost to $0. Reach out to us to see how Upgrade Copilot can simplify your upgrade process: https://www.chkk.io/ #kubernetes #devops #sre #platformengineering #upgrades

Want to ditch your custom scripts and outdated spreadsheets? Chkk lets you.  Artifact Register tracks container images, registries, tools, control planes, dependencies, open-source add-ons, and their versions across a Kubernetes fleet. - Stay up to date with visibility across all your infrastructure layers. - Consolidate insights across clouds, on-prem, and edge. - Get alerted about all EOL and incompatible versions. - Never use spreadsheets or custom scripts again. #kubernetes #devops #sre #platformengineering

🧵 Platform teams need a delightfully different approach, not one that sucks less... By 2026, Gartner estimates that 80% of software engineering orgs will have established platform teams providing reusable services, components, and tools. Although this trend seems promising, the reality for platform teams is a complex maze of challenges: 1. Shared responsibility pushes complexity to platform teams. 2. Change is a constant… and all changes are availability risks.  3. Teams can’t automate and hire fast enough to keep up with platform growth and support business-critical applications. 4. Platforms are already complex, and their complexity is increasing monotonically. Flexibility in technology components and layers brings inordinate complexity. 5. Reactive incident response is necessary but insufficient. Read the article for details on each of these challenges, why we need to enable platform teams to "collectively learn" from each other, and how a "trusted broker" is required to solve them. Check out the full blog: https://lnkd.in/dd-Vzzsp #platformengineering #devops #kubernetes

We know that safe change management is hard and it’s 10x harder for infrastructure. Anyone who’s managed infrastructure knows that: - Every version bump in infrastructure poses a huge availability risk.  - Version bumps often lead to complex projects involving multiple teams and departments. - Safety is crucial due to the massive impact of infrastructure risks. A network add-on misconfiguration can lead to significant outages, even for teams deeply invested in availability. For instance, Reddit’s Pi Day outage was a network add-on misconfiguration that led to a 314 minute outage. The following picture tells the story of how seriously invested this team is in infrastructure availability. If any of these pains resonate with you, let Chkk make things easier for you! Reach out to discuss how Chkk can help you mitigate these risks and ensure seamless, risk-free updates. #kubernetes #devops #sre #platformengineering

"Today we have our current observability and monitoring tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana. These tools are a must but they are not enough...we need to introduce Proactive Prevention outer loop on top of these existing observability and monitoring tools to fortify them, to help you identify what can break before it breaks, to help you make changes in a safe manner. You can use these proactive tools to prevent incidents from happening altogether." - Chkk CTO & Founder, Fawad Khaliq #datadog, #prometheus #011y #monitoring Kubernetes Community Day (KCD) New York