Cut your Kubernetes costs in half using CAST AI
Source: YouTube · Kubesimplify · published Dec 4, 2023 · 20:43
Cost AI is a Kubernetes automation platform designed to provide visibility into cloud spending and cut infrastructure costs in half through right-sizing and intelligent optimization 2:18-2:24.
Key Takeaways:
• Over-provisioning affects 90% of users; Cost AI offers granular cost visibility per namespace and team 1:02-1:51.
• A free tier includes cost monitoring and security, while advanced features like intelligent autoscaling require a paid plan 2:31-2:50.
• Connecting a cluster requires a simple script, enabling immediate efficiency metrics and potential savings, such as a 27% reduction 4:12-6:12.
• The platform supports multiple cloud providers, optimizing costs via spot instances with fallback to on-demand instances and predictive rebalancing 10:00-10:55.
• Workload right-sizing analyzes usage to provide patch commands for CPU and memory requests, preventing waste and evictions 16:00-16:19.
• The security beta integrates Kubescape to scan for CVEs, offering reports and remediation steps for vulnerabilities 18:23-18:48.
The presenter recommends Cost AI for its out-of-the-box features and integrations with AWS, GCP, and Azure 20:10-20:24.
Sources:
- 1:02-1:51 Over-provisioning issues
- 2:18-2:24 Platform overview
- 2:31-2:50 Pricing tiers
- 4:12-6:12 Connection demo
- [10:00-10:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLG_Jvklg
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do you use kubernetes do you use managed kubernetes do you use kubernetes across different Cloud environments do you feel that there is a need for cost Solutions so that you can monitor the cost optimize the cost for the services you are running and this is what we'll be discussing in this video using a tool called cost AI so hello everyone my name is s and you're watching Cube simplifier now what happens is over the past few years especially with the economic slowdown the need for visibility into the cuberes Clusters and the costing aspects have increased a lot and that's why we have phobs Foundation phobs is a evolving term it means it is a kind of shared responsibilities between different set of teams for different Cloud providers where your applications are running so let's say you hav…