FinOps?! But I just learnt DevOps! Or, Kost Management With FinOps
Submitted to Dutch VMUG UserCon 2024 (Den Bosch). Rejected .
- Level
- All
- Length
- Talk, 30-45 minutes
- Tags
- kubernetes FinOps cloud cost
Elevator pitch
You care about cloud costs. Your boss does, at least. This is especially true with containerized apps and Kubernetes. The new FinOps discipline is developing using standards to help. This talk covers what’s different, common practices and tools, and a plan to start kost kontrol kosts with FinOps.
Abstract
Cost is one of the most important concerns in move to cloud. This is especially true with cloud native apps that are running on Kubernetes. What and how you pay for resources is different. The design of apps can be opaque and yet driving most of your costs. The practice of FinOps is solving this problem and, thankfully, it’s being done in the open and with standards. This talk will cover what’s different, common FinOps practices and tools, and give you a plan to start kontrolling kosts with FinOps.
Text taken from Coté's PaperCall talk record on 2026-08-10, not captured at submission time. PaperCall keeps one record per talk and reuses it across events, so this is the talk's text as it stands now - it may have been edited since this particular submission. (PaperCall shuts down on 2026-08-31.)
Notes to the CFP reviewers
Not part of the public abstract - this is what the program committee saw and the audience never does.
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