Chkk

Agentic Lifecycle Management for 100s of Cloud Native OSS Projects like Istio, Keycloak, Consul, Cilium, and many more.

[Chkk @chkk_io]

Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas from Chkk! 🎄

May this festive season bring warmth and joy to you and your loved ones! ✨

[Chkk @chkk_io]

The Chkk Knowledge Graph models the Cloud Native ecosystem — capturing how projects evolve, depend on one another, and interact at runtime. It provides the contextual intelligence required for safe, automated lifecycle decisions across 100s of Cloud Native Projects.

And the Chkk Knowledge Graph isn’t static — it’s continuously built and improved by hundreds of task-specific, source-grounded AI agents.

These agents execute a five-step pipeline that keeps the graph accurate and authoritative:
1️⃣ Collect raw data from public sources
2️⃣ Curate by organizing, categorizing & de-duplicating
3️⃣ Link objects to create a rich dependency graph
4️⃣ Refine through deep validation & research
5️⃣ Enrich with context like issue/PR signals & classifications

This pipeline is what allows the Knowledge Graph to stay correct and deeply contextual — the backbone of Chkk.

Read more: https://t.co/mBMJItr22g

#platformengineering #devops #cloudnative

[Chkk @chkk_io]

Chkk’s Agentic Lifecycle Management platform is built on our Collective Learning technology — and the Knowledge Graph is a critical part of this foundation.

The Knowledge Graph models the cloud native ecosystem, capturing how projects evolve, depend on one another, and interact at runtime. It provides the contextual intelligence required for safe, automated lifecycle decisions across hundreds of cloud native projects.

👉 Read the full blog: https://t.co/mBMJItr22g

#platformengineering #upgrades #devops #sre

[Chkk @chkk_io]

That’s a wrap on Day 1 at KubeCon! 🎉

Great energy, great conversations — can’t wait for Day 2! 👋

#KubeCon #CloudNative #TeamChkk

[Chkk @chkk_io]

Raffle Alert: Win an iPad Pro at KubeCon NA 2025! 🎉

Chkk is at KubeCon and we're super excited to meet everyone! 🙌

📍 Visit Chkk at Booth 1952 to enter our iPad Pro raffle or simply scan the QR code for a chance to win! 🏆

Winners will be announced Wednesday at 4:00 PM — live at Chkk Booth #1952.

Be there when we reveal the winners! 👏

Let’s make this KubeCon unforgettable!

[Chkk @chkk_io]

📍 KubeCon NA 2025 is here!

Visit Booth 1952 to see how Chkk helps teams accelerate and de-risk cloud native OSS upgrades — just like Dexcom did.

With Chkk, Dexcom sped up upgrades by 5x, cut prep time by 80%, and ensured safe, compliant lifecycle management across cloud native open source projects like Istio, Kafka, and Keycloak.

Stop by for a live demo, exclusive giveaways, and some amazing swag! 🎉

#KubeCon #KubeConNA #KubeConNA2025

[Chkk @chkk_io]

Are you ready for KubeCon NA 2025?

Visit Booth 1952 to connect with the Chkk team, grab exclusive swag, and experience how Chkk simplifies upgrades for 100s of cloud native open source projects like Istio, Keycloak, Consul, Cilium—making them faster and stress-free.

Set up a meeting with us here: https://t.co/hWnH83eQH5

We’re all set and excited to connect—see you in Atlanta!

#KubeCon #KubeConNA #KubeConNA2025

[Fawad Khaliq @fawadkhaliq]

I’m excited to announce the Chkk Free Tier for cert-manager. Experience end-to-end Agentic lifecycle management of Cloud Native projects in a real environment.

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[Chkk @chkk_io]

Watch our Co-founder and CTO, @fawadkhaliq, on AWS Containers from the Couch as he showcases Upgrade Plans (workflows) that can be co-executed by humans and agents.

Give it a try for free: https://t.co/PUIWH3QySZ

#cloudnative #platformengineering #upgrades #devops #sre

[Chkk @chkk_io]

📢 Come find us at Booth 1952 at KubeCon NA! Don't forget to mark your calendars, and perhaps consider hiring a carrier pigeon to make sure you don’t miss out.

We can't wait to see you there!

#KubeCon #KubeConNA #KubeConNA2025

[Chkk @chkk_io]

Chkk × Claude Code: your environment-aware Upgrade Agent inside the Claude Code—opening precise, review-ready IaC PRs quickly and safely. Available in Chkk’s Free (Forever) Tier for cert-manager upgrades.

We’ve added Chkk Upgrade Agent to Claude Code, powered by the Upgrade Context MCP Server. It works across 300 cloud native projects (Istio, Kafka, Consul, Keycloak, and more). Bring your own models—Claude 4, GPT-5, Gemini—no lock-in, no retraining. Your code stays inside your perimeter: Claude Code holds the pen.

Why it matters:
Coding Assistants can write Terraform and Helm. What they lack is context: your live topology, the reasons for upgrading a component, IaC patterns used across K8s and OSS projects, dependencies and compatibilities, which version is the safest to upgrade to, what changes will be needed to Helm values, what CRDs are changing and how will they impact you, what files need to be changed and in which order, and what pre/postflight checks you need to run to make sure the upgrade goes as expected.

The Chkk Upgrade Agent closes that gap by injecting the right context, at the right time, into your Claude Code via the MCP. The result: fewer hand edits, faster reviews, and PRs that are tightly scoped yet complete—with clear explanations of both why and what is being upgraded.

Inside Claude Code:
- Fetch Upgrade Context for a component (e.g., cert-manager)
- Detect your IaC pattern and files to update
- Generate environment-specific diffs + reviewer notes (deprecations, critical fixes)
- Apply the diff and open the PR, with optional preflight/postflight checks

Wanna know how it works? Watch video tutorials here: https://t.co/Sshon0aPnb
Ready to get started? Use the user guide for step-by-step setup: https://t.co/XuUTiPS2k8

Never do cert-manager upgrades manually again. Just sign-up for Chkk’s Free Tier and let our Upgrade Agent + Claude Code take care of these upgrades for you

#platformengineering #devops #sre #mcp #claude #cloudnative

[Chkk @chkk_io]

The Chkk Knowledge Graph 🧠

Chkk's agentic lifecycle management platform is built on our Collective Learning technology. The Knowledge Graph is a critical part of this foundational technology. The Knowledge Graph models the Cloud Native ecosystem — capturing how projects evolve, depend on one another, and interact at runtime. It provides the contextual intelligence required for safe, automated lifecycle decisions across hundreds of Cloud Native projects.

Built and maintained by task-specific, source-grounded AI agents. These AI agents perform five critical functions that build our Knowledge Graph. First, agents collect raw data from both public and private sources. We then curate this raw data by categorizing, de-duplicating and organizing the raw data. Next, agents link objects to each other, creating a graph of relationships that informs Chkk's platform and enables product features like our upgrade and version recommendation engines. After the graph of relationships is built, agents refine the curated data and relationship links by doing deep research and validation on previously-discovered facts. Finally, a set of agents works to enrich the refined data and relationships by adding additional context to data models.

Chkk's Knowledge Graph captures how 318+ projects, 35K+ package releases, 3.2M+ OCI artifacts... evolve, depend, and interact. It's the rich data foundation that powers safe, automated lifecycle management tasks across 100s of Cloud Native projects.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/mBMJItr22g

#cloudnative #kubernetes #platformengineering #devops #sre

[Chkk @chkk_io]

Happy Diwali to our colleagues, friends, customers, and partners celebrating! 🪔

Wishing you light, reflection, and joyful moments with your loved ones.

[Chkk @chkk_io]

Chkk delivers upgrade automation for Kubernetes, Application Services, and 100s of Cloud Native Open Source Projects.

This includes Knative Eventing, the framework that powers event-driven architectures on Kubernetes with brokers, triggers, and pluggable channels like Kafka. But upgrading Knative Eventing can be complex—CRD changes, feature-flag updates, channel backend shifts, or service-mesh/mTLS policies can easily break event routing, trigger failures, or cause dropped events.

Chkk automates the Knative Eventing upgrade cycle, reducing risk and ensuring seamless operations with:
✅ Curated Release Notes
✅ Preflight & Postflight Checks
✅ EOL, Version Incompatibility Information, and Version Recommendations
✅ Verified Upgrade Templates (In-Place & Blue-Green)
✅ Private Registries & Custom Plugins
✅ Preverification

Discover more: https://t.co/PuyugEymo0

#kubernetes #knativeeventing #devops #sre #eks #aks #gke

[Chkk @chkk_io]

🎉 Introducing Chkk Lifecycle Management Agents for Cloud Native Infrastructure & Projects

Every DevOps or platform engineer knows the story: patching, updates, and upgrades of Cloud Native OSS projects are never-ending tasks. Istio, Keycloak, Cilium, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, cert-manager, Kafka—there’s always another version just around the corner. Each upgrade means reading endless release notes, worrying about breaking changes, editing complex Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and spending weeks validating before production.

We built Chkk Lifecycle Management (LCM) Agents to automate this work. These agents don’t just throw out suggestions—they observe your environment, reason with real source knowledge, and generate safe, reviewable IaC pull requests you can trust.

What once took weeks can now be compressed into hours, even minutes—with humans in control.

Read the blog by @fawadkhaliq, Founder & CTO at Chkk to learn:
- Why Relevant Context Matters for AI Agents
- Coding Agents vs. Infrastructure Agents
- Why Upgrades Are Hard
- Introduction to Chkk Lifecycle Management (LCM) Agents for Cloud-Native Infra
- How Chkk LCM Agents Deliver Safe Upgrades
- The Outcomes They Deliver
- How to Get Started

🔗 Read the blog here: https://t.co/99zkKVHrBX

[Fawad Khaliq @fawadkhaliq]

I’m excited to announce the Chkk Lifecycle Management Agents for Cloud Native Infrastructure and Projects.

Every DevOps or platform engineer knows the story: patching, updates, and upgrades of Cloud Native OSS projects are never-ending tasks.

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[Chkk @chkk_io]

Chkk delivers upgrade automation for Kubernetes, Add-ons, Application Services, and 100s of Open Source Software projects.

This includes Botkube, the ChatOps bridge for Slack/Mattermost/Discord. However, upgrading Botkube can be risky due to plugin index mismatches, notification-default changes, RBAC scope issues, outbound egress requirements for integrations, and config drift that can lead to missed alerts or crash loops.

Chkk automates the Botkube upgrade cycle, reducing risk and ensuring seamless operations with:
✅ Curated Release Notes
✅ Preflight & Postflight Checks
✅ EOL, Version Incompatibility Information, and Version Recommendations
✅ Verified Upgrade Templates (In-Place & Blue-Green)
✅ Private Registries & Custom Plugins
✅ Preverification

Discover more: https://t.co/HRK1fkPani

#kubernetes #botkube #devops #sre #eks #aks #gke

[Chkk @chkk_io]

Chkk delivers upgrade automation for Kubernetes, Add-ons, Application Services, and 100s of Open Source Software projects.

This includes Connaisseur, the mutating admission controller that enforces image provenance with sigstore/cosign and Notary v1. However, upgrading Connaisseur can be risky due to webhook availability/failurePolicy changes, trust-root & key rotations, Detection Mode/policy adjustments, and validator or Helm values shifts that can block deployments.

Chkk automates the Connaisseur upgrade cycle, reducing risk and ensuring seamless operations with:
✅ Curated Release Notes
✅ Preflight & Postflight Checks
✅ EOL, Version Incompatibility Information, and Version Recommendations
✅ Verified Upgrade Templates (In-Place & Blue-Green)
✅ Private Registries & Custom-Built Images
✅ Preverification

Discover more: https://t.co/zZqHN8Mssj

#kubernetes #connaisseur #devops #sre #eks #aks #gke

[Fawad Khaliq @fawadkhaliq]

I’m excited to announce that the Chkk Upgrade Agent is now available inside @AnthropicAI Claude Code.

It brings environment-aware context directly into your IDE, automates lifecycle management tasks such as upgrades, and supports over 270 open-source projects.

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[Chkk @chkk_io]

Chkk delivers upgrade automation for Kubernetes, Add-ons, Application Services, and 100s of Open Source Software projects.

This includes PostgreSQL, the advanced relational database behind mission-critical workloads. However, upgrading PostgreSQL can be risky due to auth default shifts (MD5 → SCRAM-SHA-256), extension compatibility, replication cutovers, WAL archiving posture, and connection-limit tuning that can trigger outages or regressions.

Chkk automates the PostgreSQL upgrade cycle, reducing risk and ensuring seamless operations with:
✅ Curated Release Notes
✅ Preflight & Postflight Checks
✅ EOL, Version Incompatibility Information, and Version Recommendations
✅ Verified Upgrade Templates (In-Place & Blue-Green)
✅ Private Registries & Custom-Built Images
✅ Preverification

Discover more: https://t.co/ukW1bqLEgc

#kubernetes #postgresql #devops #sre #eks #aks #gke