Many organizations struggle in understanding and monitoring the costs of their Kubernetes workloads, cloud infrastructure and cloud native applications. Moreover, different cloud providers use different conventions, which makes it difficult to compare across vendors and to monitor cost in multi-cloud environments. The lack of cost observability and vendor-agnostic FinOps standardization can become a critical business challenge.  

OpenCost is a vendor-neutral open source project for measuring and allocating infrastructure and container costs. It’s built for Kubernetes cost monitoring to power real-time cost monitoring, showback, and chargeback, across on-premises Kubernetes as well as cloud managed offering.  

I discussed this topic with Matt Ray, Senior Community Manager for the OpenCost project. Matt  has been active in Open Source and DevOps communities for over two decades and has spoken at and helped organize many conferences and meetups. He is currently the Senior Community Manager at Kubecost for the CNCF Sandbox Project OpenCost. Matt also co-hosts the Software Defined Talk podcast.

The episode was live-streamed on 14 February 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhqXQV2jsxo

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Show Notes:

• FinOps and the FinOps Foundation
• Relevant stakeholders
• Understanding your public cloud bill
• How is Kubernetes spend different
• OpenCost project overview
• OpenCost roadmap and ecosystem
• How to join OpenCost convo
• News and updates

Resources:

• https://www.cncf.io/blog/2022/12/06/opencost-a-new-cncf-sandbox-project-for-real-time-kubernetes-cost-monitoring/ 
• https://www.opencost.io/
• https://github.com/opencost/opencost 
• https://logz.io/blog/finops-distributed-tracing/

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Dotan Horovits

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Matt Ray

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