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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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Chatter of the week

• Kiwis abroad: please meddle in the election
  • Clarke Gayford tweet
• Killer Queen Black
  • Killer Queen

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
  • Episode 55, with Idit Levine

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