Kubernetes Cost Clinic

Bring a real cluster bill, anonymised if you like, and leave with three changes you can make next week.

The clinic runs like a doctor’s surgery. A short opening talk covers the usual suspects: over-requested CPU, idle namespaces, storage nobody remembers creating and autoscalers that only scale up. Then the room splits into small groups, each with a platform engineer who has cut a large bill in half and lived to tell the tale.

Groups look at real numbers on the screen, argue about requests and limits and write their own short list of fixes. Nothing is recorded and nothing leaves the room. Thirty places in Room B, included with the pass. Bring a laptop if you want to look at your own dashboards.