Cost Management

Cost Management:

• Label Resources:

  • Visualize costs using Prometheus & Grafana

• Find idle and unallocated resources

  • Visualize idle CPU, Memory and Storage

• Workload Rightsizing

  • Vertical Pod AutoScalar (Adjust CPU, Memory size of pods)

  • Horizontal Pod AutoScalar (Add/remove pods)

• Cluster Downsizing

  • Cluster Autoscalar adds and removes nodes to meet the demand

• Using free trials of kubernetes cost tools eg: KubeCost

• Estimate future cost, use a load-testing eg: SpeedScale, K6, JMeter, Gatling

• Utilization Wast (Running but not using or live)

  • Scale to zero if no traffic