Right Size Cloud Kubernetes Infrastructure and OpEx
Solution for Cloud Cost Reduction
KAOPS optimizes cloud infrastructure by auto-scaling resources based on workload needs and tracking costs
Business Challenge
Cloud costs are on the rise and affecting the bottom line for many companies. There are several causes, including ever-increasing infrastructure usage and labor to operate that expanding cloud.
The Rising Cloud Spending
For many companies, cloud bills and associated Operational Expenses (Opex) are higher than expected.
Cloud bills are on the rise and affecting the bottom line for many companies. There are several causes, including ever-increasing infrastructure usage and labor to operate that expanding cloud.
The Solution
There are proven ways to lower cloud costs, and even improve quality and performance at the same time, such as:
Continuously auto-scale cloud/Kubernetes resources to match workload requirements
Improve cloud cost tracking (project attribution)
Automate cloud/IT manual processes
With KAOPS' auto-scale and optimized resources utilization, you can:
Observe and attribute cloud costs to a specific project (and budget)
Reduce cloud infrastructure bill by 60%
Reduce cloud OpEx by 60%
Explore how Nethopper KAOPS can help you.
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Solution Details
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There are several proven ways to lower cloud costs, and even improve quality and performance at the same time:
Auto-Scale Cloud/Kubernetes Resources
Modern workloads run as containers, and containers best run in Kubernetes. Most Kubernetes operators make an educated guess at the size of those Kubernetes clusters, and apply a static set of resources (compute, storage, and network), at a static cost.
When the workloads change over time, the resources remain unchanged. This results in under-utilized resources which creates higher-then-necessary cloud bills, or over-utilized resources which results in under performing applications.
Kubernetes knows how much resource is needed at all points in time to run its workloads correctly. You just need to monitor Kubernetes and adjust resources when workloads change.
But, if you do it manually with IT staff, you’ll spend all your cloud bill saving on OpEx.
KAOPS can automate this, and right-size your Kubernetes at all times, to make sure you only pay for what you need, and return all the savings on your bottom line.
Improve Cloud Cost Tracking
Before you can lower costs, you need to know exactly where you are spending your money. Your cloud bill is pretty detailed, but it won’t tell you exactly who is spending how much, on which projects. Especially when shared resources are involved, like Kubernetes running multiple workloads.
With better cost monitoring, you can observe and attribute cloud costs to specific prospects and staff.
KAOPS does this advanced cost monitoring across all your Kubernetes clusters by including the best open source cost monitoring tool, OpenCost.
Automate Cloud/IT Manual Efforts
You went to the cloud to outsource your IT, but see that it had the opposite effect. Now, you require even more IT staff, with more specialized skills, to operate the cloud, Kubernetes and the workloads running there. Whether in private datacenters or public cloud, the only way to reduce operating costs is to automate the many required manual tasks.
One key challenge to automation is integrating all the systems necessary to achieve any task.
KAOPS integrates several systems including infrastructure management, Kubernetes, workload deployment, upgrades, monitoring, security, networking, etc. and automates IT tasks across these domains. We can even integrate into your existing ITSM and ITOC systems.
How KAOPS does It
Nethopper KAOPS is an open-source cloud management platform that works with any cloud and Kubernetes, which uses GitOps blueprints to simplify cloud operations and deploy container workloads and cloud native tools.
KAOPS has a blueprint for deploying and configuring open source tools that can automate, observe and right-size Kubernetes resources, including OpenCost and Karpenter.