When your infrastructure is effectively infinite, you may have to keep an eye on your credit card. Webb Brown started a project that does exactly that - Kubecost, which aims to reduce spend and prevent resource-based outages. He talks to Craig and Adam about the project and the company behind it.
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Chatter of the week
News of the week
- VMworld announcements
- Pixie Labs
- Cicada, by Jeremy Herzog
- Announcing Java support for cdk8s
- Good: Envoy on Windows
- Not so good: Envoy CVE-2020-25017
- Kubenav 3.0.0 announced
- Cisco acquires Portshift
- Veeam acquires Kasten
- Solo.io acquires $23m
Links from the interview
- Kubecost
- Spot instances (AWS) and preemptible VMs (Google Cloud)
- DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40%
- Managing your costs on Kubernetes by Karl Stoney at Autotrader
- FinOps and the FinOps Foundation
- Shifting left
- Stackwatch
- Glacier National Park and Going-to-the-Sun Road
- Webb Brown on Twitter
Original Source: https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/124-kubecost/