Raksha Rajashekar
Hi, I’m Raksha, a Tech Lead and Senior Software Engineer passionate about observability, cloud sustainability, and developer platforms. I work on building scalable monitoring and telemetry solutions for cloud-native pipelines, with a strong focus on improving performance, cost visibility, and energy efficiency. I enjoy mentoring engineers and exploring ways to make cloud infrastructure more sustainable and efficient.
Red Hat
Senior Software Engineer
Session
Managing 13 OpenShift clusters and 437 namespaces without a cost strategy made our cloud bill a "black box." This talk details our 2-quarter journey to deploy the Red Hat Cost Management Operator at scale. We’ll explore why manual labeling failed (31% compliance, "000" default cost-centers) and how we architected Policy-as-Code with Kyverno(100% compliance for new namespaces, existing ones remain a challenge), and multi-cluster deployment patterns using ArgoCD ApplicationSets.
You'll learn:
About hidden complexity of authentication strategies why the Cost Explorer UI became a bottleneck and the ongoing migration of 300+ manually-created namespaces to GitOps.
Using ApplicationSets to deploy operators across 10+ clusters with unique configs.
Designing Kyverno policies that ensure attribution without breaking existing pods.
Attendees will gain practical patterns for multi-cluster cost observability and learn how to automate financial accountability without hindering developer velocity.