A report on Kubernetes expenditure from the Finops Foundation, in association with CNCF, shows that costs are rising and companies struggle to predict

Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend, according to new report

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2021-06-29 17:00:11

A report on Kubernetes expenditure from the Finops Foundation, in association with CNCF, shows that costs are rising and companies struggle to predict them accurately.

The new report is based on a survey of the CNCF and Finops Foundation communities and although it had only 195 respondents, there was a "strong enterprise representation".

Spending on Kubernetes was up, according to the survey, with 67 per cent reporting an increase of 20 per cent or more over the last 12 months, and 10 per cent spending more than $1m per month on their deployments.

Kubernetes, as Reg readers know, is a means of orchestrating containerised applications, so its actual cost is mainly that of the resources it consumes: over 80 per cent compute (such as VMs on AWS, GCP or Azure) and a bit on memory, storage, networking and so on.

In 2020 it became part of the Linux Foundation, alongside Kubernetes overseer Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and aims to "advance the discipline of cloud financial management." Sponsors include Aptio, Atlassian, VMware and Google Cloud.

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