Building Cost Visibility For Your Kubernetes Clusters
summary
Kubernetes shows instance charges but not application bills so the talk claims and demonstrates how to attribute cost to pods and namespaces by reading CPU and memory requests and limits and multiplying by per‑unit cloud prices. It compares commercial tools (CloudHealth, Cloudability costing roughly 1–3% of cloud bill) with open source pipelines like kube‑state‑metrics + Prometheus, kube‑resource‑report (which reports a slack cost gap), and metering operators; numbers align approximately with cloud invoices and enable autoscaler quotas HPA and spot/reserved instance optimizations.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:21Importance of Cost Visibility
- 5:12Tools for Cost Visibility
- 9:08How These Tools Work
- 12:57Cost Cutting Tactics
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