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John McClary John McClary

Sailing the Seas of Kubernetes Resource Management - KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe 2024

This past March, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosted KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe 2024, a conference that focused on the latest cloud-native technologies and drew over 12,000 attendees. I had the opportunity of co-presenting a session titled “To Infinity and Beyond: Seamless Autoscaling with in-Place Resource Resize for Kubernetes Pods,” which delved into Kubernetes resource management, a subject of importance for efficiently running applications on this platform.

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CloudNatix Cloud Cost Visibility Portal

In the last blog post in this series on AWS billing we began looking at AWS billing and CUR files. In that post we discussed the intricacies of how AWS calculates an instance’s usage, and in this post we want to continue talking about these files, but this time, focus on savings plans.

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“Right-scaling” clusters

When setting up a Kubernetes cluster, you need to specify the type of node instances and the quantity of nodes for each type. Alternatively, you can configure autoscaling for the node count. However, determining the correct configuration can be challenging due to the abundance of tuning options. For example, there are usually hundreds of instance types available.

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AWS Billing Part 3: Savings Plans + Usage Quirks

In the first post in this series, I detailed how AWS CUR files calculate an instance’s usage along with an interesting quirk of the system. In the last blog post in this series, I dove into detail of how Savings Plans appear in AWS CUR files. In this post I will walk through how the processes laid out in the other two posts are combined in AWS and lead to significantly unexpected behavior.

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AWS Billing Part 2: Savings Plans

In the last blog post in this series on AWS billing we began looking at AWS billing and CUR files. In that post we discussed the intricacies of how AWS calculates an instance’s usage, and in this post we want to continue talking about these files, but this time, focus on savings plans.

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Kenji Kaneda Kenji Kaneda

5 Steps for Accurate Cloud Cost Attribution

Allocating cost and resources to different teams across cloud environments can be really challenging in cloud-native environments. Learn how to gain an accurate picture of your kubernetes environments across teams.

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