Accelerate Kubernetes Upgrades

Upgrade faster, stay secure, and reduce engineering overhead

Even with managed Kubernetes services like EKS, GKE, and AKS, upgrading at scale is a painful, high-stakes process. Plural takes the complexity out of upgrades with automated compatibility checks, dependency validation, and orchestrated rollouts across your fleet — so your team can move faster without putting stability, security, or compliance at risk.

Managing upgrades still takes weeks — even on managed platforms

Kubernetes control planes might be automated, but the hard parts are still on your team. Compatibility, deprecations, add-ons, workloads — it’s all on you. Without automation, upgrades demand:

Weeks of Research: Mapping compatibility across versions, addons, CRDs, and manifests
Manual Validation: Testing third-party integrations, node pools, and configs by hand
Repetitive Engineering Work: Burning your most senior engineers on dependency and rollout scripting
Constant Risk Management: Balancing security patches against potential production breakage

Why delaying upgrades is even more expensive

Postponing upgrades introduces hidden — and not-so-hidden — costs:

Security vulnerabilities from unpatched CVEs
Failed compliance audits due to unsupported versions
Cloud provider penalties (like EKS extended support fees)
Forced obsolescence: due to inability to use the latest software
Performance degradation and brittle infrastructure With Plural, you can move fast and stay protected.

How Plural Can Help

You don't have to do it alone.

Run preflight checks across your environment

Validate every component before upgrading — from core workloads to edge-case addons.

Scan GitOps-based configurations for compatibility
Analyze CRDs, third-party addons, and cluster settings
Identify issues before they impact production
Replace manual QA cycles with smart, automated checks

Catch deprecated APIs before they break things

Upgrades are notorious for introducing breakage due to API deprecations. Plural watches for them continuously — and alerts you early.

Monitor usage of deprecated APIs across Git repos and clusters
Prevent CI/CD failures and cluster misbehavior
Keep workloads running smoothly on every supported version

Resolve upgrade blockers in minutes, not days

Plural surfaces upgrade blockers across environments and shows you how to fix them.

Understand the root causes behind upgrade failures
See a prioritized list of blockers and their impact
Get clear, actionable remediation guidance and automatically created pull-requests to resolve blockers
Save hours of cross-team coordination and trial-and-error debugging

Manage complex addon compatibility automatically

Add-on and CRD mismatches are one of the most painful parts of upgrades. Plural tracks them all — and validates compatibility for you.

Use an extensible compatibility database covering official and third-party addons
Understand version requirements and interdependencies at a glance
Avoid surprises during rollout
Spend less time reading changelogs, more time shipping

Upgrade smarter with intelligent version selection

Stop guessing which version to target. Plural automatically recommends the latest compatible release based on your current state and ecosystem.

Cross-reference Kubernetes version compatibility with your addons, workloads, and CRDs
Autogenerate pull requests to update manifests with the right version
Confidently upgrade greenfield and brownfield clusters
Avoid regressions and configuration drift

Roll out safely across your fleet

Upgrades are more than one-off events — they’re fleet-wide operations. Plural handles the coordination.

Automate phased rollouts across dev, staging, and prod
Configure rollback logic and safety checks
Monitor progress and get alerts during rollout
Standardize upgrades without writing custom tooling

Stay secure and compliant without the upgrade pain

Plural’s Upgrade Autopilot eliminates the research, manual effort, and operational risk of Kubernetes upgrades — whether you’re running one cluster or hundreds.

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