Despite having an expert team with years of K8s experience, at tracking add-on versions, EOLs, release notes, and breaking changes across dozens of CNCF projects is very time-consuming. Chkk’s Availability Risk Ledger gives us this information on our fingertips, enabling us to prevent risks that have led to incidents, failures and disruptions for others. Not only does Chkk save us from downtime, but more importantly it saves us time.”

Chkk saved us months of work while upgrading our clusters. It used to take 3 people 4 weeks to do one upgrade. With Chkk, it takes 1 person 1 week. Also, Chkk brings standardization to our upgrade process so I am finally able to delegate upgrades to other team members.”

Regulatory requirements mandate that we take serious measures to avoid downtime. Chkk enables us to do that. Before Chkk, our upgrade process was risky, fragile and tedious. With Chkk, upgrades are a breeze as we can look into the future to identify what could break, before it actually breaks.”

Compliance assigned us an org-wide goal to avoid running EOL software versions in staging and production. However, safely performing 3-4 EKS upgrades a year at our scale is impossible without hiring 2 new FTEs. With Chkk, we will complete five fleet-wide upgrades without any disruptions, save approximately $750K per year in EKS extended support surcharges, and still have enough bandwidth within the existing team to work on long-overdue innovation projects.“