FinOps
Cost as an engineering problem: per-namespace allocation with OpenCost, the three levers on cluster spend, unit economics instead of absolute totals. FinOps here is not about cutting budgets but about knowing what a decision costs before it ships.
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OpenCost: Kubernetes cost allocation by namespace and pod
The cloud bill knows the price of an instance, not the price of a service. OpenCost (CNCF Incubating) splits cluster spend by namespace and pod: the engine and its pitfalls, OpenCost vs Kubecost vs AWS SCAD, idle cost and the path to unit economics.
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Three levers against Kubernetes overspend: idle, scale-to-zero, right-sizing
The average cluster runs at 20–30% utilization. You pay for the rest. Three levers that recover the money without rewriting your architecture.
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FinOps Is Rationality, Not Cost-Cutting
Cloud overspend isn’t negligence — it’s the sum of locally rational decisions. Change the information environment, not the people.