2 years ago

Category: Kubernetes

Despite what you may have heard, cost overruns are not the biggest problem facing companies managing Kubernetes deployments. According to over 1,200 respondents to a recent Canonical survey, 55% of the study believe one of their biggest challenges when using or migrating to Kubernetes and containers is a lack of manpower and that would instead be a lack of in-house skills or limited manpower. A report from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the FinOps Foundation that came out this week claims a lack of Kubernetes cost monitoring is causing overspend.

In addition, only 24% do not monitor Kubernetes spending at all and 44% only rely on estimates. It then infers that a low level of adoption of tools meant to monitor Kubernetes spending can explain why only 38% of respondents can predict their monthly cloud bill within a 10% margin of error.