Kubernetes Ate the Budget: How We Made Cost a Platform Responsibi...
summary
Claims a deployable stack that turns Kubernetes telemetry and cloud invoices into workload-level dollars using OpenCost, VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana, with a central VictoriaMetrics server that federates per-cluster agents across multi-region, multi-cloud clusters. Shows the conversion method (Kubernetes usage + cloud invoice median), exposes metrics at /metrics, offers an MCP server for human queries, reports 99.9% accuracy, and demonstrates a working dashboard and live demo that resolves cost spikes. centralised k8s cost metrics MCP server queryable output
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Cost as platform responsibility
- 1:03Multi-cloud cost visibility challenges
- 2:51OpenCost, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics stack
- 5:19Multi-cluster cost architecture
- 9:29OpenCost bridges Kubernetes costs
- 11:37VictoriaMetrics for cost aggregation
- 13:01Visualizing cost with Grafana
- 14:05From billing to trust-building visibility
- 15:35Proactive cost insights impact
- 17:04Demo of cost monitoring dashboard
- 19:37MCP server for cost queries
- 24:00Trust via transparent billing
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