When your infrastructure is effectively infinite, you may have to keep an eye on your credit card. Webb Brown started a project that does exactly that - Kubecost, which aims to reduce spend and prevent resource-based outages. He talks to Craig and Adam about the project and the company behind it.
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Kiwis abroad: please meddle in the election

Clarke Gayford tweet


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News of the week

VMworld announcements

Bryan Liles’ promotion
Episode 54, with Bryan Liles


Pixie Labs

TechCrunch coverage


Cicada, by Jeremy Herzog
Announcing Java support for cdk8s
Good: Envoy on Windows
Not so good: Envoy CVE-2020-25017
Kubenav 3.0.0 announced
Cisco acquires Portshift
Veeam acquires Kasten
Solo.io acquires $23m

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Links from the interview

Kubecost

Kubecost blog
Cluster turndown
Cost model


Spot instances (AWS) and preemptible VMs (Google Cloud)
DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40%
Managing your costs on Kubernetes by Karl Stoney at Autotrader

Episode 52, with Russell Warman and Karl Stoney


FinOps and the FinOps Foundation
Shifting left
Stackwatch
Glacier National Park and Going-to-the-Sun Road
Webb Brown on Twitter