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Build Cost Awareness Into Your Kubernetes IDP

How platform teams can make cost efficiency a natural outcome of following the golden path — not a billing surprise discovered three weeks after deployment ...

Sandeep Bharadwaj Mannapur | March 27, 2026 | Cost Visibility, FinOps, Golden Path, internal developer platform, kubernetes, platform engineering, shift-left

KubeCon, cloud native, ai, cloud-native,

Pod Requests Are the Input to Every Kubernetes Cost Control Loop

Pod CPU and memory requests drive Kubernetes scheduling, autoscaling and cost allocation. Learn why rightsizing them improves cost control ...

Rafael Brito | March 17, 2026 | cloud native, Cost Optimization, FinOps, kubernetes, platform engineering

SRE, autoscaling, Tailscale, Kubernetes, argo cd, Kubernetes v1.33, AI, Nelm, Kubernetes, architecture, , architecture, Rackspace, GPUs, Kubernetes, Solo.io Kubernetes cloud foundry keptn cloud-native automation

The Efficiency Era: How Kubernetes v1.35 Finally Solves the “Restart” Headache

Kubernetes v1.35 introduces in-place resource resizing, revolutionizing how stateful workloads are managed. Discover the benefits of dynamic resource allocation, traffic distribution, and the improvements that enhance operational efficiency for platform engineers ...

Pavan Madduri | March 3, 2026 | AI/ML workloads, cloud costs, Dynamic Resource Allocation, efficiency era, FinOps, immutability, Kubernetes architecture, Kubernetes enhancements, Kubernetes v1.35, Openshift, operational efficiency, resource resizing, self-healing infrastructure, Stateful Workloads, system performance, traffic distribution, vertical scaling

IBM, kubernetes, finops, costs, Finout FinOps financial services Kublr

Cost Control for Kubernetes: Monitor, Right-Size, Govern

As Kubernetes moves from testbeds to production, managers are getting sticker shock from the bills a K8s deployment can incur. Whether hosted in-house or on a cloud provider, who knew cloud nativity ...

Joab Jackson | February 20, 2026 | cost control, devops, FinOps, kubernetes

CloudBolt, StormForge, automation, Solo.io eBPF Automation in Microservices Security

Machine Learning in Kubernetes: Why Trust, Not Tech, is Your Biggest Hurdle

Explore why trust—not technology—is the real barrier to ML-driven Kubernetes optimization and how intelligent automation builds confidence at scale ...

DoiT Acquires PerfectScale to Manage Kubernetes Platforms

DoiT this week revealed it has acquired PerfectScale to add an ability to govern and optimize deployments of Kubernetes environments ...

Mike Vizard | February 7, 2025 | FinOps, IT, kubernetes, SaaS

Best of 2024: Rising Kubernetes Costs Highlight the Need for Better Monitoring and FinOps Optimization

The CNCF’s latest report suggests good news: Effective cost visibility tooling and FinOps practices do lead to cloud cost optimization ...

Ajay Tripathy | December 26, 2024 | cloud native, cncf, container costs, containers, FinOps, kubernetes, Kubernetes costs

IBM Acquires Kubecost to Bring FinOps to Kubernetes Environments

IBM this week revealed it has acquired Kubecost, a provider of a cost monitoring and optimization platform designed specifically for Kubernetes environments ...

Mike Vizard | September 19, 2024 | costs, FinOps, kubernetes

NTT Data VP: Cloud-Native Adoption Starts at the Top

It's a good idea to approach cloud adoption and modernization as a strategic business enabler, rather than a technological or cost reduction asset. ...

Adrian Bridgwater | June 7, 2024 | application architecture, cloud strategy, FinOps, NTT Data