Kubernetes adoption is accelerating, making cost challenges more prevalent. Last year, Kubernetes-related costs surged for 68% of businesses, according to a survey by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

The concern with this increase has given room to the growth of companies such as Kubecost, focused on monitoring and reducing expenses with Kubernetes. Its business has exploded over the past two years, according to Webb Brown (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of Kubecost.

“We have grown the team about five times, so like right around 20 people today,” he said. “We now have thousands of mostly medium- and large-sized enterprises using the product — that’s worth a 10 times growth since we launched, just before the KubeCon San Diego,” he said. “Now [we are] managing billions of dollars of spin, and I feel like we’re just getting started.”

Brown spoke with Lisa Martin and David Nicholson, co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. They discussed the performance of Kubecost following the spread of the use of Kubernetes, what the company prepares for the future and market trends. (* Disclosure below.)

Insights cover all parts of the environment

The entire cost management process provided by Kubecost starts with increasing visibility and monitoring of the Kubernetes environment. Then the company provides insights and drive optimization and governance, Brown explained.

The insights cover all parts of the environment, including the infrastructure layer, the Kubernetes orchestration layer, all the way to the application layer, with all of this being purpose-built for cloud native spaces. It is common for savings to be around 30%, reaching up to 70%, of the businesses’ expenses with Kubernetes, according to Brown.

“The way we work is you deploy our product in your environment anywhere you’re running Kubernetes 1.11 or above, we will run and we’re going to start dynamically generating these insights in minutes. And they’re real time … they scale to the largest Kubernetes clusters in the world,” Brown said.

After raising $5.5 million in a first round of financing, Kubecost is expanding its products. One of the news is its first software-as-a-service solution. The idea is to give IT teams the option of either controlling data on their own with Kubecost’s deployed product or opting for Kubecost managing that data, according to Brown.

“And [there is] just a lot more coming with visibility … like GPU insights metrics coming quickly, a lot more with automation coming, and then more integrations for governance,” he concluded.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. (* Disclosure: This is an unsponsored editorial segment. However, theCUBE is a paid media partner for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021. Red Hat, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and other sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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