Chkk’s Operational Safety Platform significantly enhances the operational safety posture of organizations using Kubernetes by offering a range of tangible technical benefits. The platform is designed to proactively identify, manage, and remediate risks, ensuring a more stable, secure, and efficient operational environment.

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Key Technical Benefits for Enhanced Operational Safety

  • Proactive Risk Detection: Chkk identifies operational risks before they cause breakages, moving from a reactive to a proactive approach. The platform scans environments for configuration mistakes, incompatibilities, deprecations, and other risk factors. By detecting issues like feature flag renames in add-ons, the platform alerts teams to potential problems before they escalate into incidents. This proactive identification is facilitated by Chkk’s Risk Ledger, which is tailored specifically for identifying contextualized Operational Risks within Kubernetes infrastructures.
  • Risk Signature Database (RSig DB) and Knowledge Graph: At the core of Chkk’s proactive approach is the RSig DB, which acts like a CVE database for operational risks. This database, along with a Knowledge Graph, captures relationships across different artifacts like issues, release notes, and breaking changes. The platform continuously sources information from the internet, release notes, bug reports, and user feedback to populate the RSig DB, ensuring that customers learn from a wide array of sources and experiences. This enables Chkk to convert these learnings into “Risk Signatures” which are then streamed to customers to be scanned against their specific infrastructures, identifying potential risks before they cause disruptions.
  • Preverified Upgrade Templates and Plans: Chkk provides preverified upgrade templates and plans that include a detailed sequence of steps for upgrades and remediations. These plans are tested on a digital twin of the customer’s infrastructure to validate their effectiveness before implementation. By automating the pre-work, such as researching dependencies and curating release notes, Chkk cuts down research and planning time by up to 8x. These plans also include automated preflight and post-flight checks that enhance the safety and reliability of upgrades by validating system health at every stage.
  • Reduced Breakages and Downtime: By identifying and fixing operational risks proactively, Chkk helps customers avoid costly downtime. The platform helps to offset 500+ breakages for every 100 clusters. This not only saves money but also maintains a high level of operational reliability and service availability.
  • Minimized Human Error: Chkk reduces the chance of human errors and omissions through its standardized workflows and simplified tasks. By automating and verifying each step of the upgrade, Chkk ensures that upgrades are executed consistently. The platform’s ability to delegate tasks to any team member further minimizes risks associated with the dependence on expert knowledge.
  • Compliance with Standards: The platform helps in maintaining compliance by ensuring timely upgrades and avoiding outdated software versions. Chkk alerts users to existing and upcoming End-of-Life (EOL) software versions. This ensures that organizations adhere to industry standards and avoid vulnerabilities. Additionally, avoiding outdated Kubernetes versions helps prevent the hefty surcharges imposed by services like Amazon EKS, Google GKE, and Azure AKS.
  • Staying ahead with Collective Learning: Chkk’s platform uses Collective Learning, which is based on a large database of risks and their resolutions learned from many sources. By learning from incidents, reports, tickets, issues, and discussions from many sources, Chkk enhances its ability to identify and prevent future risks proactively. This means that by adopting Chkk, organizations are not just benefiting from the platform’s existing capabilities, they are also continuously benefiting from the new learnings proactively preventing breakages.

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Impact on Operational Safety Posture

By integrating these technical benefits, Chkk enables organizations to operate Kubernetes environments more safely and efficiently. Chkk’s platform allows organizations to achieve a higher degree of operational safety with less manual effort and reduced risk of downtime. The proactive risk detection, combined with preverified upgrade plans and a centralized view of assets, significantly enhances the operational safety posture of any organization leveraging Kubernetes. By using Chkk, teams can move from reactive problem-solving to proactive risk management, resulting in improved system stability, minimized disruptions, and greater overall reliability.

Kubernetes upgrades introduce risk, but Chkk ensures you can detect and fix potential issues before they cause breakages. With Chkk’s automated risk detection, teams can offset 500+ potential breakages annually for every 100 clusters, preventing disruptions before they happen. This proactive approach saves organizations 1000s of hours of break-fix effort, allowing teams to focus on innovation rather than firefighting issues post-upgrade.

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