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Technical Product Marketing Manager at Platform9

Joe has almost 30 years of experience in IT operations and architecture, from helping out at small Internet Service Providers to building large-scale data-analysis facilities. Since 2013, he’s been focused on cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and OpenStack -- both the advantages of using them, and the operational and administrative challenges they can present.

Kubernetes FinOps: Elastic Machine Pool Step-by-Step guide : Part 2

By Joe Thompson

If you’ve finished going through Part 1 of this post and are now back with a fresh beverage, welcome back. If everything went well in the previous steps, you now... Read More

Kubernetes FinOps: Elastic Machine Pool(EMP) Step-by-Step guide : Part 1

By Joe Thompson

In previous blog posts and articles, we’ve laid out some of the issues operators encounter with optimizing Kubernetes utilization, and how our Elastic Machine Pool product comprehensively solves those issues... Read More

Kubernetes FinOps: Right-sizing Kubernetes workloads

By Joe Thompson

In the earlier blog posts in this series, we detailed some of the mechanisms in Kubernetes available to control the resources allocated to the workloads in the cluster. But even... Read More

Kubernetes FinOps: Resource management challenges

By Joe Thompson

In our previous blog post we covered the different ways to think of “utilization” in Kubernetes, and some of the basic metrics that are most commonly used to control application... Read More

Kubernetes FinOps: Basics of cluster utilization

By Joe Thompson

Whether you run applications in the cloud or on-premise, optimizing your utilization of the computing hardware you rent or own is a necessary part of operations. The term “FinOps” is... Read More

Posts by Joe Thompson

Kubernetes FinOps: Elastic Machine Pool Step-by-Step guide : Part 2

By Joe Thompson

Kubernetes FinOps: Elastic Machine Pool(EMP) Step-by-Step guide : Part 1

By Joe Thompson

Kubernetes FinOps: Right-sizing Kubernetes workloads

By Joe Thompson

Kubernetes FinOps: Resource management challenges

By Joe Thompson

Kubernetes FinOps: Basics of cluster utilization

By Joe Thompson

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