Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:44:52 +0000
<p>When your infrastructure is effectively infinite, you may have to keep an eye on your credit card. <a href="https://twitter.com/webb_brown">Webb Brown</a> started a project that does exactly that - Kubecost, which aims to reduce spend and prevent resource-based outages. He talks to <a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/about">Craig and Adam</a> about the project and the company behind it.</p> <p>Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:</p> <ul> <li>web: <a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com">kubernetespodcast.com</a></li> <li>mail: <a href="mailto:kubernetespodcast@google.com">kubernetespodcast@google.com</a></li> <li>twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kubernetespod">@kubernetespod</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="chatter-of-the-week">Chatter of the week</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://youtu.be/8UCoxthkc5s">Kiwis abroad: please meddle in the election</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/NZClarke/status/1311920133690986496">Clarke Gayford tweet</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/663670/Killer_Queen_Black/">Killer Queen Black</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZBtPf7FOoM">Killer Queen</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3 id="news-of-the-week">News of the week</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.vmware.com/company/news/updates/2020/vmworld-2020-news-announcement-summary.html"> VMworld announcements</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/bryanl/status/1311375649920241664">Bryan Liles’ promotion</a></li> <li><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/054-tech-life-and-kubecon-eu/"> Episode 54, with Bryan Liles</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://pixielabs.ai/">Pixie Labs</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/01/pixie-labs-raises-9-15m-series-a-round-for-its-kubernetes-observability-platform/"> TechCrunch coverage</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@jeremyaherzog/cicada-an-integration-testing-framework-for-docker-and-kubernetes-7eee5624cc55"> Cicada</a>, by Jeremy Herzog</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/announcing-java-support-for-cdk8s/"> Announcing Java support for cdk8s</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.envoyproxy.io/announcing-alpha-support-for-envoy-on-windows-d2c53c51de7b"> Good: Envoy on Windows</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-2v25-cjjq-5f4w"> Not so good: Envoy CVE-2020-25017</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/j1yy07/kubenav_3_a_mobile_dekstop_and_web_app_for/"> Kubenav 3.0.0 announced</a></li> <li><a href="https://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-announces-corporate-news-october-1-2020"> Cisco acquires Portshift</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/data/veeam-acquires-kasten-for-kubernetes-backup.html"> Veeam acquires Kasten</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/10/01/2102230/0/en/Solo-io-Bolsters-Company-Product-and-Cloud-Native-Community-Innovation-with-New-Funding-Round.html"> Solo.io acquires $23m</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/055-solo-io/">Episode 55, with Idit Levine</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3 id="links-from-the-interview">Links from the interview</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://kubecost.com/">Kubecost</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://medium.com/kubecost">Kubecost blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/kubecost/cluster-turndown">Cluster turndown</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/kubecost/cost-model">Cost model</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/">Spot instances</a> (AWS) and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms">preemptible VMs</a> (Google Cloud)</li> <li><a href="https://deepmind.com/blog/article/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-centre-cooling-bill-40"> DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40%</a></li> <li><a href="https://karlstoney.com/2018/07/07/managing-your-costs-on-kubernetes/"> Managing your costs on Kubernetes</a> by Karl Stoney at Autotrader <ul> <li><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/052-autotrader/">Episode 52, with Russell Warman and Karl Stoney</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://www.finops.org/what-is-finops/">FinOps</a> and <a href="https://www.finops.org/">the FinOps Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift-left_testing">Shifting left</a></li> <li><a href="https://angel.co/company/stackwatch-1">Stackwatch</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.nps.gov/glac/index.htm">Glacier National Park</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going-to-the-Sun_Road">Going-to-the-Sun Road</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/webb_brown">Webb Brown</a> on Twitter</li> </ul>
