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Calculators, checklists, an e-book and open source CLIs built from real production projects. Use them, adapt them to your runbook and share them with your team.
Free toolKubernetes savings calculatorEstimate your monthly savings with Karpenter, Spot, off-hours shutdown and Graviton. Free toolKubernetes Spot cost estimatorSee what Spot really saves, after On-Demand fallback and Savings Plans. Free toolEKS hidden costs calculatorEstimate what you pay and what you can recover on NAT Gateway, cross-AZ traffic and forgotten EBS volumes. Free toolSavings Plans estimator for KubernetesHow much to commit, what it saves and how far usage can fall before it loses money. Free toolKubernetes manifest checkerPaste your manifests and see what is missing on requests, probes, PDB and spreading. Runs in your browser. Free toolKubernetes and FinOps maturity quiz8 questions to find your level in cost, platform, reliability and delivery. Free toolKarpenter NodePool generatorGenerate Karpenter v1 NodePool and EC2NodeClass YAML with Spot, Graviton and consolidation. Open sourcespot-readiness: which workloads run on SpotOpen source CLI that checks whether your Kubernetes workloads tolerate Spot interruptions. Open sourcegraviton-readiness: which workloads run on GravitonOpen source CLI that checks manifests and images to find which Kubernetes workloads can run on arm64. Open sourcerightsizing-check: inflated Kubernetes requestsOpen source CLI that compares CPU and memory requests with observed usage (files or Prometheus) and tells you what to set. Free e-book · PDFKarpenter on Kubernetes e-bookHow to cut cost and improve node scaling with Karpenter. Free e-book · PDFHidden EKS costs e-bookNAT Gateway, cross-AZ traffic and EBS volumes: where the cost hides and what to fix first. Free checklist · PDFKubernetes FinOps checklistRight-size, scale on demand and use Spot safely. Free checklist · PDFAmazon EKS upgrade checklistPreflight, bake period, node and add-on order and safe rollback.
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