Cloud Foundry Day Europe 2024

Estimating and understanding cloud costs is difficult exercise. It gets even more complex when attempting to do this with Kubernetes at scale. What really obfuscates it the most is when you install an abstraction that is meant to manage build, deployment, scaling, and all other functions. OpenCost lifts the veil on Kubernetes spending. This open-source project delivers real-time cost allocation, giving you a detailed breakdown from entire deployments down to individual containers. It integrates seamlessly with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and even supports on-premises clusters, ensuring dynamic asset pricing for all Kubernetes environments. When applied to Korifi, it tells us many things. In this talk, I intend to explore what it costs to operate the tool on Kubernetes clusters. Can we find out what a build costs? Can we ascertain the cost of scaling an instance? Come to the talk to find out!