FinKube – Making the Business Case For Kubernetes At Your Company

The presentation discusses the use of a business case toolkit called FinCube to make a case for moving to Kubernetes infrastructure. The toolkit includes an ROI calculator and a presentation template to show the impact on operational efficiency, developer productivity, and application availability.

• The FinCube toolkit is an open-source business case toolkit that can be customized to benefit a company's specific needs.
• The toolkit includes an ROI calculator that can be used to calculate the impact of moving to Kubernetes infrastructure.
• The presentation template shows the impact on operational efficiency, developer productivity, and application availability.
• The toolkit can be used for other use cases beyond Kubernetes infrastructure.
• The roadmap for FinCube includes expanding to more use cases and potentially creating a web app version.

The presenter explains how the ROI calculator works and how it can be used to calculate the increase in infrastructure efficiency and developer productivity. They also mention that the assumptions made in the calculator are based on real-life experience and industry standards. The presenter then shows the audience the presentation template and how it can be used to show the impact on different areas of the business. They emphasize the importance of having a strong business case when proposing a project like moving to Kubernetes infrastructure.

This session is for DevOps leads and managers that are driving Kubernetes (K8s) adoption within their company and want to level up their influence and skill set in making the financial business case for adoption of K8s and associated CNCF ecosystem components. As Kubernetes crosses the “chasm” in the technology adoption lifecycle, K8s champions now have the opportunity to further drive K8s adoption and transformation of their enterprise. This new phase will require “T-shirts” (Dev & Ops teams) to speak the language of the “Suits” (Finance and execs), figuratively and literally. This session will provide you the toolkit to make that business case, capture results and demonstrate value from K8s roll-out and expansion across 4 dimensions: - Capacity & Cost Optimization - quantify the bottom line benefits - DevOps Productivity - quantify the benefits in % of FTE savings - Developer Velocity - quantify the reduction in time to value - Business agility - finally, quantify the business impact of new K8s based services on top line We will open-source and provide the Excel, Google Sheet, Google Slides and Powerpoint templates used in this talk to help the community create a compelling business case proposal with solid ROI.