GKE Cost Optimization best practices

[dheerajpanyam]

Achieving GKE Cost Optimization AFAIK is tricky. Any tutorials or documentation on how to interpret and optimize costs using the Cost optimization dashboard inside GKE?

[Piyaphart90]

GKE AFAIK

[garisingh]

This video might be helpful!

[dheerajpanyam]

Thanks @garisingh 

[dheerajpanyam]

Some of these look good on video but hard to implement

[ShifaliG · Accepted solution]

Hi @Dheeraj,  below is the documentation link for the cost optimization in GKE.

https://cloud.google.com/architecture/best-practices-for-running-cost-effective-kubernetes-applicati... 

I hope it helps!

[dheerajpanyam]

Hi @ShifaliG thanks so much. I remember going through the link you sent.  I am more interested in the Cost Optimization dashboard that comes out of box with GKE. I am not sure how to interpret  the metrics and fine tune the workloads (app right sizing + bin packing)

[ShifaliG]

Hi @dheerajpanyam , below is the documentation link metrics understanding.

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/planning-large-workloads

I hope it helps!

[dheerajpanyam]

Hi @ShifaliG This has more to do with quotas and so far we have never felt the need to handle quotas but nevertheless useful article  thank you.