GitOps Your Costs: Automated FinOps Through Argo Workflows

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Claims a closed loop that pulls Prometheus and OpenCost/Kubecost metrics, computes rightsizing, opens automated GitOps PRs and lets Argo CD apply changes with progressive Argo rollouts and safety gates. Uses Argo Workflows + Events for scheduled and reactive runs, Argo Rollouts for canary-based validation, Carpenter/vCluster for node sizing, and KubeCost/OpenCost for observability. Reports concrete results: 20–30% baseline savings, 40–70% with committed discounts, and up to 60–70% on dev/staging and orphan storage; cites 70% of orgs over‑provision and ~10% CPU utilization.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:04Kubernetes over-provisioning
3. 3:56Developers over-provisioning feedback
4. 8:07FinOps solutions gaps
5. 10:51Argo Workflows cost optimization
6. 13:43Reactive cost management with Argo Events
7. 15:10GitOps with Argo CD safety
8. 17:19Real-world results trade-offs
9. 20:52Key takeaways roadmap
10. 24:01Summary