A curated list of awesome things related to FinOps.
FinOps is shorthand for “Cloud Financial Operations” or “Cloud Financial Management” or “Cloud Cost Management”. It is the practice of bringing financial accountability to the variable spend model of cloud, enabling distributed teams to make business trade-offs between speed, cost, and quality.
- FinOps Foundation - Its goal is to advance the discipline of FinOps and cloud financial management through best practices, education and standards. It is a member of The Linux Foundation.
- Cost Optimization Pillar - AWS Cost Optimization Pillar.
- deloitte.com: Matching cloud costs to need: Using FinOps for more effective cloud governance Using FinOps to more effectively govern cloud usage and match cost to need to value can help organizations avoid potentially costly reactions, such as overprovisioning.
- medium: DevOps, NoOps, and Now FinOps? Why do we need an accountant in IT?
- padok.fr: FinOps, or the Culture of Cloud Cost Optimization
- slideshare: FinOps: A Culture Transformation to Bring DevOps, Finance and the Business Together - AWS Summit Sydney
- aws.amazon.com: Introducing FinOps—Excuse Me, DevSecFinBizOps
- devops.com: FinOps Foundation to Help Rein in Cloud Costs
- infoq.com: Why Every DevOps Team Needs A FinOps Lead
- cncf.io: FinOps for Kubernetes: Insufficient – or nonexistent – Kubernetes cost monitoring is causing overspend
- loft.sh: The Cost of Managed Kubernetes - A Comparison 🌟
- thenewstack.io: 4 Reasons Your Cloud Operations Need a FinOps Team
- FinOps Book - Seminal book by founders of the FinOps Foundation.
- kubecost - Kubecost provides real-time cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes, helping you continuously reduce your cloud costs.
- infracost - Infracost shows cloud cost estimates for infrastructure-as-code projects such as Terraform. It helps DevOps, SRE and developers to quickly see a cost breakdown and compare different options upfront.
- kube-resource-report - Report Kubernetes cluster and pod resource requests vs usage and generate static HTML.
- Cloud Custodian - Cloud Custodian is a rules engine for managing public cloud accounts and resources. It allows users to define policies to enable a well managed cloud infrastructure, that's both secure and cost optimized. It consolidates many of the adhoc scripts organizations have into a lightweight and flexible tool, with unified metrics and reporting.
- kube-opex-analytics - kube-opex-analytics is a tool to help organizations track the resources being consumed by their Kubernetes clusters to prevent overpaying.