Announcing Densify’s Latest Release: Smarter Kubernetes Automation, Built for the Enterprise
March 25, 2025 Introducing Kubex by Densify
To coincide with KubeCon Europe 2025, we’re excited to announce the latest release of Densify’s Kubernetes optimization engine, Kubex, which delivers full-stack resource management and seamless automation resource optimization at enterprise scale. This release delivers the advanced controls enterprises have been asking for—without sacrificing the intelligence and precision that sets Densify apart.
Enterprise-Ready Kubernetes Automation
As organizations scale their Kubernetes environments, managing resources becomes exceedingly complex and time consuming if done manually. This leads to significant cost issues, as well as reliability concerns and OOM kills. Automated management of container requests and limits reduces effort, prevents instability, and saves money.
To achieve this we are introducing a new Mutating Admission Controller that provides simplified automation and centralized control over container resources. This includes:
- Automatic sizing of resources as containers are deployed
- Multi-policy support to provide fine-grain control over automation
- HPA-aware actions to prevent horizontal scaling conflict
- Detailed tracking of all automation actions
- Enterprise-wide views of activity and impact within the Kubex UI
- New Automation API Endpoint
These capabilities give platform teams centralized control over resources, giving unprecedented ability to cut costs and correct resourcing issues. And it can be enabled in minutes.
Key Features in This Release
Multi-Policy Support
Not all workloads are the same. Now you can define multiple automation policies per Kubernetes cluster, giving teams the flexibility to tailor automation strategies by workload type, namespace, application or other criteria. This lets you:
- Define variations of automation policies with ConfigMap-based control
- Enforce distinct automation logic based on labels, environments, or namespaces
Intelligent Webhook Routing
You can now route recommendations through multiple admission webhooks, based on existing namespace or pod labels—there is no need to add new labels or make structural changes to the way you manage your environments.
- Enables parallel automation strategies in a single cluster
- Simplifies integration into pre-existing label schemes
HPA Awareness
Our automation engine is now smarter about Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) configurations so that Densify and Autoscaling can work together:
- Automatically detects if HPA is enabled on a workload
- Suppresses mutations that would cause conflict with HPA (e.g., mutating the setting that HPA is scaling on)
This ensures safe coexistence of Densify automation with your autoscaling configurations, without requiring manual intervention.
Automation Tracking UI
A brand new Automation Tracking Dashboard gives platform engineers real-time visibility into the status and behavior of automation at scale.
- View the health of all mutating admission controllers by cluster
- Track the number of mutations performed by each controller
- See last activity timestamps to confirm ongoing operation
- Quickly identify idle or malfunctioning controllers across environment.
This UI makes it significantly easier to monitor automation activity, troubleshoot issues, and validate policy effectiveness across clusters. Also, all changes to requests and limits are visible in Kubex’s utilization charting, giving visual evidence of exactly what is happening.
New Automation API Endpoint
A new automation-centric API endpoint allows you to pull optimization recommendations and automation settings for any cluster where automation is enabled. This powers the new controller, but also makes it easier to integrate Densify recommendations into your platform tooling and CI/CD workflows.
Designed for Control, Built for Scale
With this release, Densify gives platform teams more power to manage automation safely, predictably, and at scale. Whether you’re optimizing a few namespaces or thousands of containers, the platform adapts to your requirements—not the other way around.
Ready to see it in action? Join us at KubeCon Europe 2025 or reach out to schedule a demo.
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