Kubernetes is awesome, I think this is obvious if you have more than a handful of services to manage. If you use cloud, either VM or container-based runtime, it would provide you a dashboard to see the metrics. But what about kubernetes? Since you would have multiple services inside a single cluster, in which it’s backed by VMs, at best you would only see into your VMs’ metrics, but doesn’t provide separate metrics per each service....
Congratulations, you managed to successfully deployed a few services on kubernetes! But this is not the end 👀. Unfortunately money doesn’t grow on trees, and if you can’t justify your infra expenses, finance department won’t be happy. If you’re using Terraform, you can use Infracost to create a cost report. Pretty nifty. But what about kubernetes? Given cost reporting is a basic feature, kubernetes is no exception. Enters OpenCost, a vendor-neutral open source project for measuring and allocating infrastructure and container costs in real time....