Navigating the Sea of Kubernetes Costs: Kubecost as a Key Ally
summary
Presentation demonstrates deploying Kubecost on EKS (via Helm or Terraform with EKS addons) to provide per-namespace/node/pod cost attribution, unified billing that includes S3 and RDS, and actionable recommendations that sometimes accept small cost increases for better performance. Kubecost is built on OpenCost and uses Prometheus and Grafana for metrics and visualization, and it supports alerts, budget enforcement, and scheduled cluster/namespace turn‑downs; the free tier retains only about 10–15 days of historical data.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:31Manage Kubernetes costs
- 3:21Cost visibility challenges
- 5:26Kubernetes spend data
- 7:12What is Kubecost
- 8:16Kubecost on Amazon EKS
- 9:41Kubecost dashboard
- 10:44Cost by namespace
- 14:18Multi-service cost monitoring
- 16:04Cost and performance
- 19:21Non-production savings
- 20:46Custom alerts and budgets
- 22:31Kubecost pricing and security
- 24:15Real-time decisions
- 25:16FinOps principles
- 26:23Q&A
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