Accelerate Kubernetes Upgrades
Upgrade faster, stay secure, and reduce engineering overhead
The Problem
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
Reduction in operational costs
Reduction in day-2 operations
Increased bandwidth for your engineers
ROI over 3 years
Plural has significantly enhanced our overall efficiency. It has reduced the time and effort required for cluster management, allowing our developers to focus more on innovation.
Mott MacDonald
By adopting Plural for our Kubernetes management solution, we reduced our k8s upgrade cycles from 3 months to 1 day, enabling us to delegate responsibilities more effectively from principal engineers to a single mid-level engineer.
Leading Global Cyber Security Provider
The widespread adoption of Kubernetes has transformed how enterprises deploy and scale containerized applications. This presents new operational considerations. Plural has its eye on automation, security and addressing controls with large scale enterprises in mind.
Capital One Ventures
