Your Kubernetes clusters are running fine — but is your cloud bill?

As organizations adopt Kubernetes for its scalability and flexibility, cloud costs can often escalate before anyone realizes. Despite the availability of numerous cost-saving strategies, many fail to deliver meaningful impact without extensive architectural or tooling changes.

In this talk, I’ll walk you through three practical strategies that significantly reduced cloud spend in our Kubernetes/OpenShift environment — without sacrificing performance or stability. These approaches are grounded in real-world implementation and are designed to bring measurable benefits with minimal disruption.

We’ll explore:

• The core principles behind each strategy
• The prerequisites to consider before implementation
• The types of workloads best suited for each approach

To broaden your toolkit, the session will also include a curated list of industry-recognized cost optimization techniques, helping you determine which methods are most applicable to your infrastructure and business model.

Whether you're a platform engineer, SRE, or DevOps professional, you'll leave this session with actionable insights and a framework to make smarter, cost-conscious decisions for managing Kubernetes at scale.

⚡ Takeaways:
- Proven, field-tested cost optimization strategies
- Insight into workload-specific tuning
- Broader awareness of cost control techniques used across the industry