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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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