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The Hidden Costs of Kubernetes
Bridget Lane Marcelo Mandolesi
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Bridget Lane
Software Developer Platform Engineering
Marcelo Mandolesi
Software Developer API Services
The Hidden Costs of Kubernetes Bridget Lane Marcelo Mandolesi - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Hidden Costs of Kubernetes Bridget Lane Marcelo Mandolesi - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Hidden Costs of Kubernetes Bridget Lane Marcelo Mandolesi @bridgetnomnom @mand0 Bridget Lane Marcelo Mandolesi Software Developer Software Developer Platform Engineering API Services @bridgetnomnom @mand0 11.6 MM 2,000+
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Previous: 3-4 Hours Now: 10 Minutes
Previous: $800/Day Now: $400/Day Cost Failover Deployment Time Previous: 2 Hours Now: 15 Minutes Developer Time
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Previous: Dependent
- n Platform team
Now: Totally self dependent
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Deploys + CI
From:
- Custom API for deploys
- Totally different CI per team
To:
- Helm
- CI as a service
- Shared DSLs
CI hosting cost Developer time
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Terraform gains Sumo Logic cost
From:
- Manual creation of monitoring
- Logs only in cluster
To:
- Terraform
- Sumo Logic
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Monitoring + Logging
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Secrets + Configs
Management Audit blast radius Infrastructure
From:
- K8 secrets
- K8 configmaps
To:
- Hashicorp Vault
- Hashicorp Consul
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Saved dev time Infrastructure
Dedicated GKE team From:
- Unclear SLA’s and responsibilities
- Volatile upgrades
To:
- Cluster operations team
- Smoother upgrades
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Maintenance
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Billback + Showback
- Cost tracking
- Scalr (CMP) per-team
allocation
- Shared GKE labels and
namespaces
“Undefined” resources
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Right sizing
- VM to containers 1-1 match
- Load testing
- Hidden bottlenecks
- Over provisioning VS
rearchitecting
- Architecture Council
Cost-conscious design
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Documentation
- Pre-planning
- Defining standards
- Strategy
Adoption rate
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Employee Happiness
- Re-tasking employees
- Job changes
- Ripple effect
- Shared, cross-team problem
- Migrating culture
Employee morale Employee burnout
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Cost of Not Migrating?
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