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Published inMar 2020
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Murat Karslioglu
Murat Karslioglu
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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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Managing the cost of resources using Kubecost

In this section, we will install and configure the open source Kubecost project, which gives you cost-related visibility into your Kubernetes resources. You will learn how to monitor resource costs to reduce spending and potentially prevent resource-based outages.

Getting ready

This recipe requires a functional Kubernetes cluster deployed on AWS or GCP. Currently, other cloud providers are not supported.

Before you can execute the commands in the following recipes, you need to have kubectl and helm installed. You can find the instructions to install Helm in Chapter 2, Operating Applications on Kubernetes, in the Deploying workloads using Helm charts section.

How to do it…

This section is further divided into the following subsections to ease the process:

  • Installing Kubecost
  • Accessing Kubecost dashboard
  • Monitoring Kubernetes resource cost allocation

Installing Kubecost

Kubecost creates Kubernetes resource-granular models of current...

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Published in: Mar 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838828042

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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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