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Struggling to understand the true cost of your Kubernetes workloads? With Datadog Cloud Cost Management, you can automatically allocate container costs by team, product, and service down to the pod. Instantly identify idle resources, surface optimization opportunities, and act with confidence. All in one unified platform.

Misconfigured infrastructure resources can be easy to miss, especially in multi-account or multi-cloud environments. From EKS clusters running on deprecated versions to RDS engines on extended support, these issues can disrupt services or drive up costs if left unchecked. In this video, we show you how to: By centralizing policies, you’ll gain a clear view of where to focus your remediation efforts.

In the August edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the version 3.3 release as well as the plan for upcoming features. Finally, we end with a packed Q&A full of great questions.

Check out the full @bindplane community call in August.

Still wasting weeks on complex configs? Meet your new secret weapon — RKE2! Prasun Das from @Infosys reveals how you can go from zero to a hardened Kubernetes cluster in minutes: Upstream Kubernetes, ready for production One-step CIS hardening — no 200-page manuals! Copy. Start. Done. That easy. Why work harder when you can work smarter? Get speed, security & enterprise power without the grind.

Running a startup means every resource counts, especially when it comes to expensive GPUs. In this video, we break down proven GPU hacks to help you get maximum AI performance at minimum cost. Learn how to choose the right hardware, use pre-trained models, leverage quantization, adopt CPU-efficient frameworks, and make the most of affordable GPU providers. Whether you’re prototyping, training, or deploying AI models, these strategies will help you deliver big results without a big budget.

Meet Dustin Kirkland, VP of Engineering at Chainguard. Dustin shares his fascinating 26-year journey in the tech industry, from IBM and two stints at Canonical to roles at Google (working on GKE), Apex, and Goldman Sachs, eventually leading him back to engineering at Chainguard.

Looking to kickstart your journey? Hear from Gunasekhar Matamalam, Senior Engineering Manager at @SUSE about how you can simplify your local development with the extension on Rancher Desktop.

This Product Klip covers Komodor's cost optimization features, highlighting how the platform helps users reduce Kubernetes spending while maintaining operational stability. Key features discussed include: Before activation, Komodor provides simulations of potential savings, and for activated clusters, it shows CPU and memory usage before and after Komodor's bin packing and the resulting dollar savings. Komodor enhances existing autoscalers rather than replacing them, unlocking up to 40% in additional savings.

Learn more about the core components of the OPEA project under @LinuxfoundationOrg with Katherine Druckman.

In this video we’ll demonstrate how to use Splunk’s AlwaysOn Profiler to identify and fix a performance bug in a Java web application running on Kubernetes.

Learn more about Wasm with Caleb Schoepp from Fermyon and other experts in our tailored learning path on Rancher Academy.

Troubleshooting issues in a complex service mesh environment, such as traffic failures or authorization problems, often requires the expertise of an SRE or DevOps professional. However, Komodor simplifies this process. Komodor provides developers with the necessary visibility to diagnose service mesh issues on their own. It helps developers easily identify blocked connections and understand the root cause without having to review logs or configuration files.

Learn more about the OPEA project from @LinuxfoundationOrg with Katherine Druckman from Intel.