When your infrastructure is effectively infinite, you may have to keep an eye on your credit card. Webb Brown started a project that does exactly that - Kubecost, which aims to reduce spend and prevent resource-based outages. He talks to Craig and Adam about the project and the company behind it.
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Chatter of the week * Kiwis abroad: please meddle in the election + Clarke Gayford tweet * Killer Queen Black + Killer Queen
News of the week * VMworld announcements + Bryan Liles’ promotion + Episode 54, with Bryan Liles * Pixie Labs + TechCrunch coverage * Cicada, by Jeremy Herzog * Announcing Java support for cdk8s * Good: Envoy on Windows * Not so good: Envoy CVE-2020-25017 * Kubenav 3.0.0 announced * Cisco acquires Portshift * Veeam acquires Kasten * Solo.io acquires $23m + Episode 55, with Idit Levine
Links from the interview * Kubecost + Kubecost blog + Cluster turndown + Cost model * Spot instances (AWS) and preemptible VMs (Google Cloud) * DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40% * Managing your costs on Kubernetes by Karl Stoney at Autotrader + Episode 52, with Russell Warman and Karl Stoney * FinOps and the FinOps Foundation * Shifting left * Stackwatch * Glacier National Park and Going-to-the-Sun Road * Webb Brown on Twitter