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Operational Safety

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

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Fawad Khaliq

News

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

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Chkk Team

Hidden Toil

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

by

Awais Nemat

Spotlight

Spotlight: Seamless Self-Managed Grafana Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: CoreDNS Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

Technology

Karpenter vs. Cluster Autoscaler

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Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: Simplifying Contour Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

Hidden Toil

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

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Awais Nemat

Spotlight

Spotlight: Seamless cert-manager Upgrades with Chkk

by

Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: Argo Rollouts Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

Upgrade Advisory

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

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Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: Simplifying Self-Managed Apache Kafka Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: Seamless Calico Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: NGINX Ingress Controller Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: KEDA Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: Streamlining Prometheus Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: RabbitMQ Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: Seamless Kyverno Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

News

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

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Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: HashiCorp Vault Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: Streamlining Crossplane Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: Seamless External DNS Upgrades with Chkk

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Chkk Team

Case Study

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

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Chkk Team

Case Study

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

by

Chkk Team

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

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

Spotlight

Spotlight: Upgrading Self-Managed Redis

by

Chkk Team

Spotlight

Spotlight: Simplifying Self-Managed Elasticsearch Upgrades with Chkk

by

Chkk Team

News

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

by

Ali Khayam

Spotlight

Spotlight: Seamless Karpenter Upgrades with Chkk

by

Chkk Team

Operational Safety

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

by

Fawad Khaliq

Spotlight

Spotlight: How Chkk Streamlines & Safeguards Cilium Upgrades

by

Chkk Team

Technology

Kubernetes Admission Controllers and Webhooks Deep Dive

by

Chkk Team

Spotlight

Chkk Spotlight: Istio

by

Chkk Team

Technology

Pod Disruption Budgets: Pitfalls, Evictions & Kubernetes Upgrades

by

Chkk Team

Technology

cgroup v1 to v2 Migration in Kubernetes

by

Chkk Team

Operational Safety

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

by

Fawad Khaliq

News

EKS launches Auto Mode… How can you adopt it?

by

Ali Khayam

News

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

by

Ali Khayam

Change Safety

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

by

Fawad Khaliq

News

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

by

Ali Khayam

News

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

by

Ali Khayam

Platform Engineering

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

by

Fawad Khaliq

Technology

Kubernetes Enters Its Second Decade: Insights from KubeCon Chicago

by

Fawad Khaliq

Company

Launching Chkk Operational Safety Platform

by

Awais Nemat

Company

Welcome to Chkk

by

Awais Nemat

Company

4 Lessons from our SOC2 Journey

by

Fawad Khaliq

Technology

From Fighting Fires to Availability Assurance

by

Fawad Khaliq

Technology

What Makes Kubernetes Upgrades So Challenging?

by

Fawad Khaliq

Technology

Collective Learning: The Power of Not Repeating Others’ Mistakes

by

Ali Khayam

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

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

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

Spotlight: Seamless Self-Managed Grafana Upgrades with Chkk

Spotlight: CoreDNS Upgrades with Chkk

Karpenter vs. Cluster Autoscaler

Spotlight: Simplifying Contour Upgrades with Chkk

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

Spotlight: Seamless cert-manager Upgrades with Chkk

Spotlight: Argo Rollouts Upgrades with Chkk

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

Spotlight: Simplifying Self-Managed Apache Kafka Upgrades with Chkk

Spotlight: Seamless Calico Upgrades with Chkk

Spotlight: NGINX Ingress Controller Upgrades with Chkk

Spotlight: KEDA Upgrades with Chkk

Spotlight: Streamlining Prometheus Upgrades with Chkk

Spotlight: RabbitMQ Upgrades with Chkk

Spotlight: Seamless Kyverno Upgrades with Chkk

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

Spotlight: HashiCorp Vault Upgrades with Chkk

Spotlight: Streamlining Crossplane Upgrades with Chkk

Spotlight: Seamless External DNS Upgrades with Chkk

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

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

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

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

Spotlight: Upgrading Self-Managed Redis

Spotlight: Simplifying Self-Managed Elasticsearch Upgrades with Chkk

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

Spotlight: Seamless Karpenter Upgrades with Chkk

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

Spotlight: How Chkk Streamlines & Safeguards Cilium Upgrades

Kubernetes Admission Controllers and Webhooks Deep Dive

Chkk Spotlight: Istio

Pod Disruption Budgets: Pitfalls, Evictions & Kubernetes Upgrades

cgroup v1 to v2 Migration in Kubernetes

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

EKS launches Auto Mode… How can you adopt it?

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

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

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

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

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

Kubernetes Enters Its Second Decade: Insights from KubeCon Chicago

Launching Chkk Operational Safety Platform

Welcome to Chkk

4 Lessons from our SOC2 Journey

From Fighting Fires to Availability Assurance

What Makes Kubernetes Upgrades So Challenging?

Collective Learning: The Power of Not Repeating Others’ Mistakes