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FinOps and Kubernetes guides

Practical guides to size your workloads, choose your commitments and install the Onicost agent.

Kubernetes requests and limits

Understand Kubernetes requests, limits and usage. Right-size CPU and memory with meaningful metrics and connect freed capacity to your node costs.

Karpenter vs Cluster Autoscaler

Karpenter vs Cluster Autoscaler: how each one adds and removes nodes, where each one falls short, and how to choose and migrate for your cluster.

Savings Plans vs Reserved Instances

Savings Plans vs Reserved Instances on AWS: how each commitment works, its limits, what it covers on Kubernetes and how to size it without overbuying.

What is FinOps?

What is FinOps? The definition, principles and phases of the practice, and how to apply them to Kubernetes, where a cloud bill hides who spends what.

Install the Onicost agent

Install the Onicost agent with Helm: prerequisites, token, checks, proxy, network policy, upgrade and uninstall, with every command you need to run.