BoF: OpenCost: An Open Source Tool for Your K8s Cost Management Problem
summary
OpenCost is an open source Kubernetes cost monitor and community-backed spec that tracks per-container costs in real time, breaks cluster costs into nodes/disks/load‑balancers/overhead, and maps node price to CPU/GB marginal units so workload cost = max(request, usage). Dashboard demo shows namespace and container drilldowns, surfaces surprises (high cross‑zone network egress, a hidden bitcoin miner), integrates with cluster autoscaler and pod autoscalers, and is now in the CNCF sandbox.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 2:15Solution: OpenCost
- 3:04The OpenCost approach
- 4:00Why open source?
- 6:46Clusters
- 9:00Workload costs
- 10:30Optimizing Workloads: Detection
- 11:21Optimizing Workloads: Efficiency
- 12:24Optimizing Cluster Costs
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