FinOps challenges for containerized workloads
In today’s world, it is becoming extremely common to containerize a workload and host it in the cloud using AKS. AKS is a managed service that provides many advanced features and ease of deployment. An organization with a sizable AKS usage may have many clusters for each development, testing, and production environment. Along with the workload clusters, there may exist shared clusters. Shared AKS clusters host workloads from multiple teams and for multiple end customers.
The tagging strategy that works perfectly for all other cloud resources does not effectively work for AKS. The main reason why tagging does not work for AKS is the sheer complexity of abstracting the underlying resources. For example, when you create an AKS cluster, it creates an MC_ management resource group. All the dependent resources, such as virtual machines, storage accounts, and virtual networks, are in a managed resource group. Now, since the single AKS...
