Despite numerous organizations today embracing Kubernetes, the clusters often do not run efficiently and a lot of money is wasted.
Today, according to a study by Red Hat, about 75 percent of all enterprises use Kubernetes in one form or another. In contrast, costs and inefficiencies within Kubernetes are barely if at all monitored. To counter that, Kubecost was released as an open source solution in 2019.
Kubecost is also commercially available today within Stackwatch and obviously has every advantage in pointing out inefficiencies within Kubernetes. That said, cost tracking is enormously complex. For example, at any given time, 30 applications may be running on a single node or VM, only to be replaced five minutes later by 30 new applications.
That complexity is the result of Kubernetes allowing many microservices to work simultaneously across a distributed team of engineers. There is no centralized point where decisions are made.
On top of that, 89 percent of organizations expect Kubernetes to play a larger role in the future. Entire new ecosystems are often being built around Kubernetes, whether in the cloud, on-premises or hybrid. Kubecost is a tool that provides real-time monitoring and cost insights, but there are other solutions that can give you similar insights. The important thing is to think about your Kubernetes installation in a timely manner today, what the future holds and how to monitor everything better.
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