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Your Upgrade Copilot for Kubernetes and 100s of Addons

Introduction

Welcome to Chkk

Understanding Chkk

This Quick Start Guide provides a streamlined, step-by-step process for onboarding to Chkk, ensuring users can quickly start leveraging its risk detection, artifact tracking, and upgrade planning capabilities.

Getting Started

An overview of Chkk Kubernetes Connector — what it is, why you need it, and how to install and configure it.

Chkk Kubernetes Connector

Chkk Cloud Connector

Administration instructions for managing Organization Settings

Organization Settings

Administration instructions for managing users

User Management

Administration instructions for managing users in multiple Organizations

Multi-Org Support

Administration instructions for plan usage management

Plan and Usage

Administration instructions for using and managing Access Tokens

Access Tokens

Speedup and Derisk Upgrades

Avoid 6x Extended Support Fees

Delegate, Parallelize, and Standardize Workflows

Enhance Operational Safety

Improve Resource Efficiency

How Chkk Upgrade Copilot uses Amazon EKS Upgrade Insights

Chkk + EKS Upgrade Insights

Do EKS Auto Mode clusters need Chkk Upgrade Copilot?

Chkk + EKS Auto Mode

Overview

Add-ons

Chkk coverage for Alertmanager. We provide version recommendations, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—ensuring worry-free operations.

Alertmanager

Chkk coverage for Amazon VPC CNI. We provide curated release notes, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—all tailored to your environment.

Amazon VPC CNI

Chkk coverage for Apache Kafka. We provide preflight/postflight checks, curated release notes, and Upgrade Templates—designed for seamless upgrades.

Apache Kafka

Chkk coverage for Apache Zookeeper. We provide curated release notes, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—all tailored to your environment.

Apache Zookeeper

Chkk coverage for Argo CD. We provide version recommendations, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—ensuring worry-free operations.

Argo CD

Chkk coverage for Argo Rollouts. We provide preflight/postflight checks, curated release notes, and Upgrade Templates—designed for seamless upgrades.

Argo Rollouts

Chkk coverage for Argo Workflows. We provide version recommendations, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—ensuring worry-free operations.

Argo Workflows

Chkk coverage for Calico. We provide version recommendations, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—ensuring worry-free operations.

Calico

Chkk coverage for cert-manager. We provide preflight/postflight checks, curated release notes, and Upgrade Templates—designed for seamless upgrades.

cert-manager

Chkk coverage for Cilium. We provide curated release notes, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—all tailored to your environment.

Cilium

Chkk coverage for Cluster Autoscaler. We provide version recommendations, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—ensuring worry-free operations.

Cluster Autoscaler

Chkk coverage for Contour. We provide version recommendations, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—ensuring worry-free operations.

Contour

Chkk coverage for CoreDNS. We provide version recommendations, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—ensuring worry-free operations.

CoreDNS

Chkk coverage for Crossplane. We provide curated release notes, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—all tailored to your environment.

Crossplane

Chkk coverage for Datadog Agent. We provide curated release notes, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—all tailored to your environment.

Datadog Agent

Chkk coverage for Elasticsearch. We provide curated release notes, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—all tailored to your environment.

Elasticsearch

Chkk coverage for External DNS. We provide preflight/postflight checks, curated release notes, and Upgrade Templates—designed for seamless upgrades.

External DNS

Chkk coverage for External Secrets Operator. We provide curated release notes, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—all tailored to your environment.

External Secrets Operator

Chkk coverage for Fluent Bit. We provide preflight/postflight checks, curated release notes, and Upgrade Templates—designed for seamless upgrades.

Fluent Bit

Chkk coverage for Gloo Edge OSS. We provide curated release notes, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—all tailored to your environment.

Gloo Edge OSS

Chkk coverage for Grafana. We provide preflight/postflight checks, curated release notes, and Upgrade Templates—designed for seamless upgrades.

Grafana

Chkk coverage for Grafana Loki. We provide version recommendations, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—ensuring worry-free operations.

Grafana Loki

Chkk coverage for HashiCorp Consul OSS. We provide preflight/postflight checks, curated release notes, and Upgrade Templates—designed for seamless upgrades.

HashiCorp Consul OSS

Chkk coverage for HashiCorp Vault. We provide version recommendations, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—ensuring worry-free operations.

HashiCorp Vault

Chkk coverage for Ingress NGINX Controller. We provide curated release notes, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—all tailored to your environment.

Ingress NGINX Controller

Chkk coverage for Istio. We provide version recommendations, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—ensuring worry-free operations.

Istio

Chkk coverage for Karpenter. We provide preflight/postflight checks, curated release notes, and Upgrade Templates—designed for seamless upgrades.

Karpenter

Chkk coverage for KEDA. We provide preflight/postflight checks, curated release notes, and Upgrade Templates—designed for seamless upgrades.

KEDA

Chkk coverage for Keycloak. We provide curated release notes, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—all tailored to your environment.

Keycloak

Chkk coverage for Kubernetes Dashboard. We provide version recommendations, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—ensuring worry-free operations.

Kubernetes Dashboard

Chkk coverage for Kubernetes Metrics Server. We provide curated release notes, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—all tailored to your environment.

Kubernetes Metrics Server

Chkk coverage for kube-proxy. We provide curated release notes, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—all tailored to your environment.

kube-proxy

Chkk coverage for kube-state-metrics. We provide preflight/postflight checks, curated release notes, and Upgrade Templates—designed for seamless upgrades.

kube-state-metrics

Chkk coverage for Kyverno. We provide preflight/postflight checks, curated release notes, and Upgrade Templates—designed for seamless upgrades.

Kyverno

Chkk coverage for Prometheus. We provide curated release notes, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—all tailored to your environment.

Prometheus

Chkk coverage for RabbitMQ. We provide preflight/postflight checks, curated release notes, and Upgrade Templates—designed for seamless upgrades.

RabbitMQ

Chkk coverage for Redis. We provide version recommendations, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—ensuring worry-free operations.

Redis

Chkk coverage for Vertical Pod Autoscaler. We provide preflight/postflight checks, curated release notes, and Upgrade Templates—designed for seamless upgrades.

Vertical Pod Autoscaler

Chkk coverage for Vault Secrets Operator. We provide version recommendations, preflight/postflight checks, and Upgrade Templates—ensuring worry-free operations.

Vault Secrets Operator

Chkk Operational Safety Platform

Your Upgrade Copilot for Kubernetes and 100s of Add-ons. Avoid 500% EKS, AKS, and GKE Extended Support Fees. Prevent Forced Upgrades. 

Upgrade Copilot

Inventory of everything in a Kubernetes fleet

Artifact Register

Eliminate risks before they cause incidents

Risk Ledger

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Activity Feed feature

Activity Feed

A brief description and use-case of the Add-on Upgrade Recommendation feature

Add-on Upgrade Recommendation

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions for the Approve Upgrade Template feature

Approve Upgrade Template

A brief description and use-case of the Captured Learnings feature

Captured Learnings

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Cancel Upgrade Template/Plan feature

Cancel Upgrade Template/Plan

Cancel an Upgrade Template or Plan

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Add Comments feature

Comments

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Add/Edit/Delete Custom Steps feature

Custom Steps

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Environment Upgraded feature

Environment Upgraded

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Feedback Button feature

Feedback Button

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Readiness Checks feature

Readiness Checks

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Release Notes Curation feature

Release Notes Curation

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Template Regeneration feature

Template Regeneration

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Upgrade Guidance feature

Upgrade Guidance

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Upgrade Preverification feature

Upgrade Preverification

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Upgrade Plan Marked as Completed feature

Upgrade Plan Marked as Completed

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Upgrade Plan Instantiation feature

Upgrade Plan Instantiation

A brief description, use-case, and usage instructions of the Upgrade Template Request feature

Upgrade Template Request

An overview of the cloud providers, Kubernetes distributions, and Add-ons that Chkk supports

	Business	Enterprise
Clusters	Unlimited	Unlimited
Users	Unlimited	Unlimited
Risk Ledger (All Risk Signatures)	Included	Included
Artifact Register - Clusters (EKS, GKE, AKS, VMware Tanzu, OpenShift, Rancher RKE1/RKE2, Nutanix, DIY, Self-Hosted)	Included	Included
Artifact Register - Add-Ons	Included	Included
Upgrade Copilot	Upgrade Templates purchased separately	Fleetwide upgrades included
Nodes	Up to 100 included (additional nodes purchased separately)	Fleetwide nodes included
SSO Support	-	Included
Support for Multiple Organizations	-	Included
Custom Integrations	-	Included
Dedicated Hosted VPC Support	-	Available
Custom Contracts, Multi-Year Contracts	-	Available
Premium Support Response SLA	-	Included
Contractual Uptime Guarantee	-	Included
Volume Discounts	-	Available

Getting Started

Use Cases & Insights

Covered Add-ons

Product Details

Security & Trust

Resources

Subscription Plans

FAQs

Getting Started

Use Cases & Insights

Covered Add-ons

Product Details

Security & Trust

Resources

​FAQs

FAQs