Tackling Kubernetes Complexity and Scale with Kubecost | Episode #52

Great Things with Great Tech Podcast

Anthony Spiteri

Tech News, News

5 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I talk with Webb Brown, CEO and Co-Founder at Kubecost. Kubecost develops a cost monitoring platform to help companies manage their Kubernetes resources and costs. They provide direct integrations with Kubernetes cloud billing APIs leading to cost optimizations for key Kubernetes metrics. Webb and I talk about how Kubernetes relative complexity and scale driven by those that develop applications means that cost can blow outs will happen if you fly blind. Kubecost looks to embrace open-source via the CNCF providing the OpenCost.io project which forms the base for Kubecost. We also have a great discussion on the state of Kubernetes and how he sees adoption trending.

Kubecost was founded in 2019 and is Head Quartered out of San Francisco, California.

☑️ Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Kubernetes, Containers, CNCF, AWS, S3, DevOps, PlatformOps

☑️ Raw Talking Points:

Mass adoption of Kubernetes?
Relative immaturity and complexity of Kubernetes at scale
Why is cost and overspend an issue
The patterns for overspending
Orphaned resources
Abandoned workloads
Rogue Deployments
Incorrect Usage Types
Over provisioning
What is Kubecost solving
What is opencost.io vs kubecost?
opencost.io CNCF Project
Definition of Team?
Cost Allocation, Unified Cost Monitoring, Optimization Insights, Alerts and Governance
Insights in Kubernetes spend and chargeback for teams
Actionable Recommendations
Cost Efficiency and Health scores and the gamification
Time vs resources vs Cost
Defining costs not in the Public Cloud
Pricing based on nodes with Always Free plan
AWS Marketplace Partnership
AWS first party support optimized

☑️ Web: https://www.kubecost.com/
☑️ OpenCost: https://www.opencost.io/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You ready, mate?
0:08.3	I'm ready.
0:09.4	I'm ready.
0:10.3	Let's do it.
0:15.3	Hello and welcome to episode 52 of Great Things with Great Tech.
0:19.6	The podcast highlighting companies doing great things
0:22.0	with great technology. My name's Anthony Spiteri, and in this episode, we're talking to a company
0:27.3	who develops a cost monitoring platform to help companies manage their Kubernetes resources
0:32.8	and costs, providing direct integrations with the Kubernetes API and other billing APIs in the
0:40.1	cloud, all to help clients reduce spend and prevent resource-based outages.
0:45.7	They're currently sitting on a tick over $35 million in total seed plus series A funding.
0:52.1	That company is KubeCost, and I'm talking to Webb Brown, the co-founder
0:55.7	and CEO at KubeCost. Welcome to the show, Webb. Thank you for having me. It's great to be here.
1:03.0	Thanks for the great introduction and yeah, pumped to get into it today. No worries. Excellent. I might
1:08.9	have prepared that earlier. So there you go. It's good when those always come off.
1:12.9	Hey, mate, just before we get into everything about, you know, Kubernetes and cost pressures
1:17.5	and whatnot, I just want to put a shout out to the show.
1:20.3	If you like great things with great tech and would like to feature in future episodes,
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1:28.6	All the episodes are up on the website.
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