Founded by Former AWS Operators, Chkk Launches to Help Enterprises Running Mission-Critical Applications on Kubernetes Reduce Availability Risk and Upgrade Safely With $5.2 Million in Seed Funding Led by Sequoia Capital
Summary
Chkk enables customers to enhance Kubernetes resiliency by continuously scanning their environment for configuration mistakes, incompatibilities, deprecations and other key risk factors is nothing short of brilliant. However the realities of operating Kubernetes for mission-critical applications is challenging due to its complex ecosystem of thousands of components and talent is scarce, training is expensive and troubleshooting is reactive, resource intensive and painful. Running mission-critical applications on Kubernetes requires teams to navigate a convoluted maze of open source, vendor-managed and cloud provider add-ons with intricate dependencies and bespoke release cycles. There the trio experienced firsthand how critical a proactive approach to availability is for mission-critical services which inspired them to democratize this knowledge for the worldwide developer community.Today Chkk also announced that it raised $5.2 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital. With over a decade of experience working together to empower global developer communities by ensuring mission-critical services remain available, their technical prowess and true understanding of the challenges that DevOps and platform engineering teams are up against today is unmatched.