Automated Provisioning,
Management & Cost Control
for Kubernetes Clusters
In partnership with:

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Andrew Dawson
Solutions Engineer
Kubecost
Andrew, a Solutions Engineer at Kubecost brings years
of industry knowledge specializing in Cloud Cost
Optimization, Cloud Solutions Engineering and
Customer Solutions Engineering. He currently works in
a pre-sales role tackling customer engagements head
on while finding creative and intuitive solutions to
better the Kubecost customer adoption experience.
Leo Murillo
Principal Solutions Architect
Weaveworks
Leo brings wide-ranging industry perspective, with
over 20 years of experience building technology and
leading teams all the way from Startups to Fortune
500s. He is passionate about cloud native
technologies, organizational transformation and the
open source community. As Principal Partner
Solutions Architect at Weaveworks, he focuses on
helping solve application and infrastructure delivery
challenges on Kubernetes at scale.
Speaker introductions

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● Why you should pay close attention to FinOps
● Weave GitOps Enterprise - Cluster Management and Templating Capabilities
● KubeCost - Kubernetes Native FinOps for the Cloud
● Streamlined and Ensured GitOps + FinOps Demo!
Agenda for today

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Trends:
- A growing number of clusters.
Team and tenancy isolation via individual clusters, multi stage
cluster delivery and cluster fleets are just a few of the reasons
behind Enterprises having to provision and deploy an ever
increasing number of clusters.
- Developer Platforms for self service
Accelerating access to infrastructure and services is key to developer
experience and to reduce the burden on infrastructure, platform and
DevOps teams.
FinOps with a growing number of clusters
How do we accomplish
these while keeping
visibility and control of
costs?

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A Kubernetes Native Platform for delivery, policy
and lifecycle management of clusters and cloud
native applications applying the GitOps
Operating Model
What is Weave GitOps Enterprise?

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Today we’re going to focus on two features
Templates
A GitOpsTemplate bundles any
number of Kubernetes resources
under a single object. These
resources can be customized
during deployment using
Parameters, Variables, Conditions
and Metadata.
GitOpsTemplates are a great tool for teams
building platforms where opinionated stacks are
made available to teams.

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Today we’re going to focus on two features
Clusters
A Cluster is a… well… Cluster.
Clusters are centrally managed and observable
in the Weave GitOps Enterprise UI, and the
desired state for all clusters is kept in Git.
Clusters can be provisioned in any
infrastructure for which a CAPI provide exists.
We will use a GitOpsTemplate to provision a
Cluster, automatically provisioned with KubeCost
and preconfigured to be federated against our
management cluster.

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Let’s talk real quick about
GitOps and the Weave GitOps
Enterprise Architecture

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App
Team
workspaces
App
Management Cluster
App
Leaf Cluster
Profile Policy
Management
Management
UI
Weave GitOps Enterprise
Kubernetes
Cluster Management UI
Management UI
Multi Cluster Installer (CAPI)
Weave GitOps Enterprise
Kubernetes
Weave GitOps Enterprise

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Desired State
Store all code and
configuration
Actual State
Runtime
environment
Automation
Single interface
to operations
App
Runtime Env
App

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Revert Any change
● Any change to the system will diverge the
‘desired state’ from the actual state
● We can always return to our previous known
good value - every change is automic
kubectl apply
Prod Cluster
Automatic or Manual
Response App App

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Manual
Approval
Repository
Move fast and don’t break things
● Represents the entire state of the system - platform, services
and applications
● We can easily inspect changes ensuring they meet standards
● We can over-ride and put in guard rails to protect the system
● Revert changes to return to an earlier known good state
Control
Locked
parts
Alert
Pull
Request
Inspect
Audit Manage
App
Prod Cluster
App

Who is Kubecost?
• Founded in 2019 by ex- product
manager and engineer.
• Open Source + Enterprise model.
• Purpose-built for Kubernetes

Challenges Kubernetes Users Face:
Visibility Optimization Governance
What’s been
charged so far?
How do make the
infrastructure more
cost efficient?
Ensure ongoing
costs are tracked
and reported

How Kubecost helps:
Cloud Services
In-Cluster Shared Costs
1. CPU
2. Memory
3. Storage
4. GPU
5. Network
For example, RDS,
S3, BigQuery,
AzureSQL
Shared overhead,
software, logging,
monitoring, etc.

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Demo

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Q&A
(Please use the Q&A panel to submit a question)

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Whitepaper: Trusted Application Delivery
https://bit.ly/3A0JMOe
Learn more about Weave GitOps
www.weave.works/enterprise and a 5 min demo
https://youtu.be/aqJaHNCz2lM
Request a personal demo
www.weave.works/contact
Thank You

More Information:
https://www.kubecost.com/
Documentation:
https://docs.kubecost.com/
View our GitHub projects:
https://github.com/kubecost
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