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
Top 6 FinOps KPIs for EKS
By Chris Jones
The FinOps foundation is a treasure trove of useful frameworks, guides and importantly KPIs and I would recommend everyone dive in and explore. However, sometimes frameworks, guides and KPIs can… Read More
The argument for AWS Spot Instances
By Chris Jones
In a spot market, buyers and sellers immediately exchange financial securities for cash. The spot price is what buyers and sellers agree to pay or receive for an asset. When… Read More
Maximize cloud usage and cost efficiency using FinOps best practices
By Kamesh Pemmaraju
This blog post is a detailed recap of a recent Platform9 webinar led by FinOps ambassador Dieter Matzion, who shared invaluable insights into how to use FinOps best practices to… Read More
Run EKS workloads on 50% compute resources with Elastic Machine Pool
By Kamesh Pemmaraju
In this blog post, we will summarize our recent webinar showcasing the value of Platfom9’s latest product, Elastic Machine Pool (EMP), as well as a demonstration of how it works…. Read More
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