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IT Outposts: Your Path to Kubernetes Cost Savings
Kubernetes provides an isolated environment where you allocate precise resources so you know exactly what they’ll cost. As you need to scale up or down, you can forecast the cost impact since you know the spending range for adding or removing resources. Yet, resource visibility is just the starting point. You need to align your Kubernetes setup with your actual business workflows and budgets to achieve cost savings.
We focus on Kubernetes cost optimization from the start. We don’t over-provision resources needlessly. Instead, our team analyzes historical usage and future goal data and right-sizes the infrastructure to minimize excess spending.
IT Outposts will help you continuously control your budget using Kubernetes’ transparent resourcing as the foundation.
Signs Your Kubernetes Needs Cost Controllability
You want to minimize scaling cost
Adding cloud resources to support increased traffic can result in extremely high costs if not optimized properly. You must provision enough capacity for performance while not overspending on the excess you don't require.
You want to improve operational efficiency
As infrastructure grows, manually tracking spending across all your Kubernetes environments is difficult. With more apps and teams, optimizing resource allocation will become more time-intensive. Your team will have to constantly monitor usage, analyze cost drivers, and resize resources, carefully avoiding over-provisioning or under-provisioning issues. It's an operational burden prone to human errors and oversight.
You need robust cost governance and compliance
As your Kubernetes usage expands across environments and teams, adherence to budgets becomes paramount. Left unchecked, decentralized scaling decisions by different app owners can cause spending to spiral out of control, going against your company policies and budgetary constraints.
Maximize Your ROI with Kubernetes
Constant monitoring and analytics
Cost controllability starts with data. We integrate analytics tools to continuously analyze cluster metrics and resource usage patterns. Our team also leverages AI/ML to forecast demands and model the cost impact of different scaling scenarios.
Aligning with the DevOps philosophy of tight Dev and Ops collaboration, we also work closely with your development teams to define and track custom metrics tied to your applications. The analytics extend across cluster health, performance, reliability — any data source that gives insight into your overall cost profile.
Capacity planning
Capacity planning is essential for Kubernetes cost reduction to avoid overprovisioning resources you don’t need or underprovisioning and facing performance issues. On the development side, we collaborate with your engineering teams to understand any updates that could impact future resource demands.
In parallel, we engage with business stakeholders to capture growth forecasts and budgetary limits. As business priorities evolve, we adjust the capacity plan to cost-efficiently scale your Kubernetes alongside changing needs.
Flexible scaling
Once we understand your cyclical needs, burstable workloads, and any seasonal fluctuations you experience, our team can configure holistic autoscaling policies across all resources. IT Outposts also focuses on proactive scaling to trigger scaling actions ahead of impending demand spikes or lulls.
Scheduling is another cost-saving technique we employ. For example, some testing clusters may only need full capacity during working hours. We can schedule them to downscale overnight to minimal resources when not in active use.
The scheduling is customized based on your development cycles and customer demand patterns. If your applications see peak loads around lunch, we can predictively scale up capacity ahead of time for a smooth user experience.
Managing the cost of Kubernetes across environments
You maintain multiple Kubernetes environments — dev, staging, and production. We tailor Kubernetes cost optimization strategies for each environment based on its resource demands, too.
For dev clusters used in active coding and testing, we allocate fewer resources since maximum availability isn’t critical. It’s a scaled-down replica. Staging requires more capacity since it’s closer to production, but we still find optimization opportunities as it’s not under full load yet. In production, we ensure cost-effective resourcing to reliably handle live user traffic.
IT Outposts also caters to temporary needs like feature branching. When your developers need to quickly spin up a cluster to test a new feature, we can provision it on-demand and then deprovision the cluster to avoid wasteful costs.
Hybrid setup approach
When architecting your Kubernetes setup, we combine cloud-native services with third-party open-source tools — whichever mix delivers the most cost-effective solution.
While cloud services are convenient, they can be overly expensive for non-core needs like monitoring, logging, caching, and more. Third-party monitoring tools, like Prometheus and Grafana, provide similar functionality at a lower cost, especially when deployed directly on your Kubernetes cluster. You can save up to 30% by using open-source monitoring solutions.
Evaluating cloud offerings for cost-saving measures
Cloud providers regularly release new services, pricing plans, and discounts. Some of these may relate to Kubernetes cost reduction. When they do, our team evaluates whether new offerings are suitable for your environment. If we identify ways they could save you costs, we’ll implement these services to maximize your organization’s benefits.
Our Data Management Consulting Stages
Assessment
Our first step is to assess your current digital infrastructure and operations to identify any areas that need improvement. This includes evaluating software and whole network systems, as well as reviewing current processes and procedures.
Planning
Based on the results of the assessment, we develop a comprehensive plan for improving operations that take place in data center you choose. This includes identifying areas for optimization, recommending new technologies and tools, and developing a roadmap for implementation.
Implementation
At this stage, we implement the plan and make any necessary changes to your IT infrastructure and operations. This includes installing new software, as well as configuring and integrating existing systems.
Our Approach to Managing Kubernetes Expenses
Monitoring and reporting
Throughout the process, our team will set up monitoring and reporting to track resource usage, cost trends, and the impact of our optimizations. This will allow us to continuously refine our Kubernetes cost-saving approach and ensure long-term cost efficiency.
Cost analysis
Once our team has a clear picture of your setup, we'll break down your current cost into categories like compute instances, storage, and networking. Cost analysis will let us identify areas where you might be spending more than necessary.
Right-sizing
One of the most important steps is right-sizing your resources to match your actual usage patterns. Our team will study how much compute power, memory, and storage your workloads are truly consuming and then create and implement strategies to adjust your resource requests and limits accordingly.
Infrastructure assessment
First, we'll analyze your cluster configurations, determine your resource capacity use, and understand the different types of workloads you're running.
Ongoing support
IT Outposts will continuously monitor your Kubernetes spending trends, watching for any sudden spikes. If we identify any concerning trends, our team will investigate the root causes to course-correct.
Make Every Dollar Count
Container orchestration opens up many automation possibilities, but it's easy to overspend without the right Kubernetes cost-saving approach. Align your infrastructure with your actual needs. Running cost-optimized Kubernetes, you can confidently invest in the latest tech while keeping your operations resilient.
Our Clients’ Feedback
Petr Kirillov
CTO, C Teleport
“They're great experts that we can trust! Simple and complex solutions were discussed and deployed on time. Another aspect that excited us the most is the fast incident response time. Overall, they’re experienced engineers with great project management.”
Egor Prihodko
CEO, OneDayBundle
"Cooperation with IT Outposts has revolutionized our company. We needed to obtain certification with Amazon's strict security and operational guidelines so we could connect our services with the Amazon marketplace. I'm excited to say we now have access to Amazon's Selling Partner API."
Benjamin Theobald
COO, Maxxer
“The deliverables of our partnership with IT Outposts are outstanding. Their experts devised the most convenient CI/CD flow, taking into account the unique requirements of more than 30 microservices. IT Outposts has been able to minimize the human factor and the risks associated with production issues, which is yet another fantastic result.”
Konstantin Suhinin
Delivery Director, Dinarys Gmbh
“IT Outposts created a comprehensive monitoring dashboard for our development team, made sure the project scales smoothly, and performed high availability optimization. The communication and workflow were also excellent.”
Philipp Nacht
CTO, Financial Services Company
“IT Outpost approached our project with great responsibility. Their team has performed as promised, on time. They created a migration plan and secured the transfer of infrastructure. Correctly calculated the migration budget in accordance with our specifications.”
Alexander Konovalov
Founder, CEO, Vidby AG
“IT Outposts and our core project team members hit it off right from the start. The cooperation is successful! The most impressive factor is their degree of accountability and dedication to the project's goals. Their experts provide superior DevOps consulting on critical architectural solutions and consistently strive to find the best approach to any issue.”
Igor Churilov
BDM, Steelkiwi Inc.
“We were able to automate and streamline the product deployment process with the assistance of IT Outposts professionals. They thoroughly examined the product and always offered the most beneficial solutions. Also, I would like to admit the high level of communication and prompt handling of any requests.”
Daniel Scott
CTO, Beta Trader
"We were able to build a strong rapport with the IT Outpost team; they operated in a proactive mode and so gave excellent communication, which streamlined our workflows. Our cooperation has been absolutely successful.”
Kostyantyn Tolstopyat
CEO, AKMCreator
“We have achieved deployment automation, and the IT Outpost team has created a comprehensive plan to reduce DevOps and developers’ time by 30 to 50% in the future. Thanks to the infrastructure agility, project development will progress more quickly.”
Philipp Werner
Director, Robotics Lab
“The IT Outposts specialists successfully optimized an internal project while delivering top-notch performance for the existing users and removing the dev team headaches. As a result, the internal infrastructure budget was cut by 40%, routine tasks were automated from start to finish, and SLA was put in place with thorough project monitoring.”
Oleksandr Popov
CEO, Mriyar
“IT Outposts experts have successfully adjusted the detailed monitoring of over 35 servers and 7 services, allowing them to clearly define an infrastructure and underlying process optimization plan. It’s anticipated that the infrastructure budget will be optimized by about 40%.”
Chloe Morrisonn
Chief Product Owner, RECUR
“What stands out the most is their extensive background, responsibility, and perfectly established workflow. They are always in touch and ready to address any problems that may come up. IT Outposts team has in-depth expertise in all DevOps aspects, providing high-level consulting regarding key software architecture solutions.”
Dmytro Dobrytskyi
CEO, Mind Studios
“IT Outposts helped us optimize and scale our software infrastructure. They also provided thorough technical documentation along with guidance on how to maintain our new infrastructure in the future. Their team was highly accessible throughout our collaboration and promptly and professionally handled all of our questions.”
Why Choose IT Outposts?
Your IT needs will fluctuate as your business grows or seasons change. Our team provides a flexible model to easily scale resources up or down without being trapped by the fixed costs of in-house teams. It’s yet another avenue to optimize your spending. Keep Kubernetes costs under control with IT Outposts.
FAQ
How do I reduce Kubernetes costs?
The key to reducing your Kubernetes costs is optimizing your setup to only pay for the resources you actually need. But this isn’t a straightforward process — it requires specialized expertise to analyze your resource usage patterns and make the right adjustments.
What kind of cost savings can I expect?
The amount of cost savings will vary depending on your specific Kubernetes setup and usage patterns. During the consultation, we’ll provide an estimate based on your environment to give you an idea of the potential savings.
Will the Kubernetes cost optimization impact my application's performance or availability?
Absolutely not. Our primary goal is to optimize costs without compromising availability. IT Outposts carefully analyzes your workload requirements and ensures any resource adjustments or configuration changes maintain the necessary levels of performance and uptime for your applications.
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