Cost Optimization Strategies
Reduce your Kubernetes infrastructure costs with bin-packing, spot instances, autoscaling, and rightsizing techniques.
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This lesson covers K8s cost optimization:
- Cluster Autoscaler: automatically add/remove nodes
- Karpenter: fast, flexible node provisioning (AWS)
- Spot/Preemptible instances: 60–90% savings with proper tolerations
- Node bin-packing: setting accurate resource requests
- KEDA: scale to zero when not in use
- Namespace resource quotas to prevent runaway spending
- Cost visibility tools: OpenCost, Kubecost
- Rightsizing: using VPA recommendations to reduce overprovisioning
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