FinOps for Kubernetes: Monitoring Spend with OpenCost
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OpenCost is an open-source CNCF-incubated tool for real-time, vendor-neutral infrastructure cost measurement on Kubernetes. The talk explains FinOps principles—giving developers real-time cost visibility—and discusses which metrics best map infrastructure costs to Kubernetes applications and how OpenCost provides those developer-facing insights.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Resource allocation errors
- 5:24Efficiency and cost mindset
- 8:12OpenCost cluster costing
- 17:58OpenCost limitations
- 18:20Install and configure demo
- 23:00OpenCost GUI and metrics
- 26:12Prometheus and Grafana integration
- 33:14Q&A
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