Monitor Your Cloud Costs Using Open Source Tooling

The presentation discusses the use of open source tools for cost optimization in Kubernetes deployments.

• Open source tools like Kube Cost and Open Cost can help with cost optimization in Kubernetes deployments
• Kube Cost provides recommendations for reducing costs and improving efficiency
• Open Cost provides raw cost data that can be used to develop custom cost optimization algorithms
• Discipline is required to adhere to labeling strategies for accurate cost information
• Kube CTL Cost is a useful tool for querying cost information based on namespaces and labels

The speaker mentions that if a cost center label is required within deployments, it would be a good label to query for cost information. They also note that unallocated resources are often the biggest cost and that discipline is required to ensure accurate cost information through labeling strategies.

Cloud consumption across all major cloud providers has continued its explosive growth and adoption into 2022—and is unlikely to stop.When you couple that with the added adoption of containers, Kubernetes, and Kubernetes-based services like GKE, EKS and AKS, understanding an organization-wide cloud bill and implementing accurate chargeback can be a hard task.This demo-rich session will deploy OpenCost and consume cost metrics with Open Source tools to show how the fully open source OpenCost tool can monitor cloud costs.OpenCost allows teams to view spend by namespace, pod, deployment, and more!Join this session to learn how to monitor and reduce Kubernetes cost with OpenCost!Learn more about OpenCost: https://www.opencost.io/