Optimizing Kubernetes cloud costs for your organization is not just the responsibility of the platform or FinOps teams but falls on every team and individual working on the Kubernetes infrastructure. A robust process has to be set up so enterprises always right-size clusters and maintain traceability of resources created. You can standardize clusters across the organization, share best practices and seamlessly provision clusters that are ready for deployment using Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform.

Standardization via Rafay’s Cluster Templates helps keep the K8s costs in check for newly created clusters. But it is important to continually track these clusters to ensure that clusters are being utilized appropriately. Rafay’s Kubernetes Cost Management Service ensures that cost metrics are available to all stakeholders with access to metrics controlled by role-based access control (RBAC). To ensure accountability, it is best practice to implement a chargeback mechanism. We discussed various strategies to achieve chargeback at length in our previous blog. With Rafay’s K8s Cost Management Service, implementing these strategies is now straightforward.

Kubegrade’s AI agents help to automate the ongoing process of monitoring, predicting, and adjusting resource allocations. The platform proactively suggests and can even implement optimizations such as adjusting resource limits, scaling policies, or workload placements, ensuring your clusters remain cost-efficient as workloads and business needs evolve.