Kubecost and Qovery Team up to Offer Cost Monitoring for DevOps Teams
What is Kubecost?
Built on Kubecost’s core open-source technology, Kubecost Enterprise provides real-time cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes while ultimately helping organizations continuously reduce their cloud costs. Kubecost helps break down costs by Kubernetes concepts, including deployment, service, namespace label, and more. An organization’s development team can now view costs across multiple clusters in a single view or through a single API endpoint.
Kubecost equips an organization’s technical team with an on-demand tool for achieving specific cost estimates, investigating workload traffic anomalies, and understanding the behavior of individual services. A user can also leverage Kubecost to export data to a shared, pre-aggregated dashboard to visualize Kubernetes costs and build out reports for the finance team.
Delivered Results: optimized Kubernetes tooling and strategic cost visibility
Kubecost has enabled organizations to easily integrate and optimize its support tools, ingress controller, and Prometheus and Thanos deployments. It also allows a company to achieve Kubernetes cost allocation per service at any level of granularity required, down to the namespace, deployment service, or any other type of construct.
Why Kubecost and Qovery Make a Strong Partnership?
Qovery delivers self-service infrastructure allowing engineering teams to speed up app deployments and software delivery while increasing governance and control. With Qovery, you can deploy dev, test, staging, and production environments on-demand, with repeatable blueprints based on your existing IaC scripts and other infrastructure configurations.
Our partnership with Kubecost, the leading provider of cost monitoring for Kubernetes clusters, takes our offering to the next level. By integrating Kubecost's monitoring capabilities into our platform, we provide customers with the top Kubernetes cost optimization tools on the market. This partnership combines Qovery's streamlined deployment and testing capabilities with Kubecost's cost-monitoring expertise, resulting in immediate and actionable cost-saving recommendations for our customers.
How Can You Benefit from It?
This collaboration marks a new era in efficiency and cost-effectiveness for DevOps teams everywhere. It will empower your organization to take control of its cloud-native infrastructure like never before and revolutionize the way DevOps teams deploy and scale applications. Our partnership with Kubecost takes our offering to the next level by providing immediate and actionable cost-saving recommendations. Take advantage of this exciting opportunity; fill out the Typeform and join us on this journey towards efficiency and cost-effectiveness for DevOps teams everywhere.
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