DOP 163: What Is Kubecost?

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 15, 2022

Show Notes

#163: When you first start out with Kubernetes, probably the last thing on your mind is how much it costs. So how does one figure out what a Kubernetes cluster costs?

In this episode, we speak with Webb Brown from Kubecost about the tradeoffs between hard cost, optimization and efficiency.

Guests

Webb Brown

Webb Brown

Webb Brown is Co-founder & CEO at Kubecost. He is a former PM at Google where he led teams building monitoring and performance tools. He lives in San Francisco.

Hosts

Darin Pope

Darin Pope

Darin Pope is a developer advocate for CloudBees.

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic is a member of the Google Developer Experts and Docker Captains groups, and published author.

His big passions are DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences (latest can be found here).

He has published The DevOps Toolkit Series, DevOps Paradox and Test-Driven Java Development.

His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog TechnologyConversations.com.

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