DevOps World 2020: Optimizing Kubernetes Cloud Costs By Tiffany Jachja

1. Optimizing Kubernetes
Cloud Costs
Breakout Session 2020
Tiffany Jachja - Evangelist

2. Continuous Delivery Accelerates
Developer Velocity.

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AWS Cloud Costs, 2017-2018

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• Benefits of the Cloud
• Contributors to Cost
• Optimizing Kubernetes Resources
Agenda

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Benefits of the Cloud
Agile
Development
Dev & Test
Environments
Improved Cross
Collaboration
Enhanced
Security
And Much
More…
Living in
the Cloud

6. Kubernetes is not free

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What You Pay For

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Container Orchestration

9. Recommendations

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• Container Quality of Service
– Guaranteed
– Burstable
– BestEffort
• Memory (bytes)
• CPU (cores)
• Defining Memory and Limits
High Idle Costs

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High Unallocated Costs
>> kubectl top node

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>> kubectl get nodes
>> kubectl drain <node_name>
>> kubectl delete <node_name>
Right Sizing a Cluster

13. Thank you
Any questions?
@tiffanyjachja
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