Kubecost, with Webb Brown - a podcast by Adam Glick and Craig Box

When your infrastructure is effectively infinite, you may have to keep an eye on your credit card. Webb Brown started a project that does exactly that - Kubecost, which aims to reduce spend and prevent resource-based outages. He talks to Craig and Adam about the project and the company behind it.

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Chatter of the week

• Kiwis abroad: please meddle in the election
  
  
  
  • Clarke Gayford tweet
  
  
  
  


• Killer Queen Black
  
  
  
  • Killer Queen
  
  
  
  

News of the week

• VMworld announcements
  
  
  
  • Bryan Liles’ promotion
  
  
  • Episode 54, with Bryan Liles
  
  
  
  


• Pixie Labs
  
  
  
  • TechCrunch coverage
  
  
  
  


• Cicada, by Jeremy Herzog


• Announcing Java support for cdk8s


• Good: Envoy on Windows


• Not so good: Envoy CVE-2020-25017


• Kubenav 3.0.0 announced


• Cisco acquires Portshift


• Veeam acquires Kasten


• Solo.io acquires $23m
  
  
  
  • Episode 55, with Idit Levine
  
  
  
  

Links from the interview

• Kubecost
  
  
  
  • Kubecost blog
  
  
  • Cluster turndown
  
  
  • Cost model
  
  
  
  


• Spot instances (AWS) and preemptible VMs (Google Cloud)


• DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40%


• Managing your costs on Kubernetes by Karl Stoney at Autotrader
  
  
  
  • Episode 52, with Russell Warman and Karl Stoney
  
  
  
  


• FinOps and the FinOps Foundation


• Shifting left


• Stackwatch


• Glacier National Park and Going-to-the-Sun Road


• Webb Brown on Twitter

Further episodes of Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Further podcasts by Adam Glick and Craig Box

Website of Adam Glick and Craig Box