What Does Kubernetes Cost You?

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In this episode of The New Stack’s On the Road show at Open Source Summit in Austin, https://www.linkedin.com/in/webbbrown, CEO and co-founder of https://www.kubecost.com, talked with The New Stack about opening up the black box on how much Kubernetes is really costing. Whether we’re talking about cloud costs in general or the costs specifically associated with Kubernetes, the problem teams complain about is lack of visibility. This is a cliche complaint about AWS, but it gets even more complicated once Kubernetes enters the picture.

“It becomes much harder to understand and break down these costs. And things just tend to be way more dynamic.”

Even with unlimited money, looking at cost information can provide important information about performance issues, reliability or availability.

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