Open Source Cloud Costs: A Deep Dive Into OpenCost's Impact on Enterprise...
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OpenCost is a CNCF project that models Kubernetes and cloud spend and the team deploys it into clusters, backs it with Prometheus local datastore, and ships a daily CSV export to S3 into a data lake for cross‑joins. It ingests cloud CURs (24–48h lag), adds carbon footprints and SaaS plugin support, does not auto‑reconcile enterprise discounts, and required tuning at scale; one enterprise with ~1,000 engineers and 25–30 teams measures efficiencies as high as 238% efficiency observed, and the pipeline works with those caveats.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Open Source Cloud Costs
- 1:01What is OpenCost
- 3:49Kubernetes cost tracking
- 6:17Cloud cost reports
- 7:43Carbon footprint tracking
- 9:09Salesforce use case
- 12:19Large-scale OpenCost architecture
- 15:50Lessons from Salesforce
- 19:20Cost calculation limits
- 21:47Running OpenCost ways
- 24:37OpenCost API UI integrations
- 26:44Join OpenCost community
- 27:49Q&A
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