OpenCost: The Ultimate Open Source Cloud Cost Monitoring Tool for Kubernetes
OpenCost: The Ultimate Open Source Cloud Cost Monitoring Tool for Kubernetes & Multi-Cloud Environments OpenCost: The Ultimate Open Source Cloud Cost Monitoring Tool for Kubernetes & Multi-Cloud Environments Cloud cost management is one of the biggest challenges facing DevOps and platform engineering teams today. With workloads spread across AWS, Azure, GCP, and even on-premise hypervisors, understanding where your money goes is nearly impossible without the right tool. OpenCost — a CNCF incubating project — is the leading open-source solution for real-time Kubernetes and cloud cost monitoring. In this blog, we break down how OpenCost works, how it tracks costs across every major cloud provider, how it handles non-popular hypervisors, and how you can try it yourself with a live demo. What is OpenCost? OpenCost is a vendor-neutral, open-source (Apache 2.0) cost monitoring tool originally built by Kubecost and contributed to the CNCF....