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Optimization is Everything!
Increasing the value of Cloud Cost optimization through Parking actions. Beginning the journey of Kubernetes parking with the Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
Feature Goal: Releasing the feature for Private Preview from IBM Turbonomic version 8.16.4 and obtain feedback, ideas on its usability, value proposition
How to avail this Feature, for Private Preview
IBM Turbonomic users could avail this feature for Private Preview from 8.16.4
Register for the private preview here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/marketingstaticlanding-pages/turbonomic-private-previews
Please reach out to your respective IBM Representatives to know the feature enablement process
Kubernetes in the Public Cloud
The world accelerating towards powerful computing with growing resources and infrastructure needs, Kubernetes are getting more popular among larger organizations to startups.
Applications with built-in scalability, faster development cycles and high security are preferably deployed in Kubernetes to achieve best in class performance and security.
What Turbonomic Parking does with Azure Kubernetes Service
Expanding the opportunity for cost savings$ through AKS Cluster Parking actions based on the Cloud resources Power state (Running, Stopped), that is leveraged in AKS
Parking actions are executed at the AKS Cluster level , that paves the way for the Turbonomic cloud users to operationalize their Parking actions at scale
Why we begin with AKS
With the driving market share and the adoption of Public cloud Kubernetes services across Turbonomic’s Customer segmentation, the parking journey begins with Azure that will be followed by the other popular Public Cloud, Hybrid & On-Prem variants
Alike any other Public cloud services, Parking action could be executed on the AKS Clusters to realize value in terms of cost savings & usage optimization
What can you do with Kubernetes services using Turbonomic now?
IBM Turbonomic user journey towards continuous costs optimization and performance improvement of their Kubernetes workloads across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, extending its ”Cost Optimization” arm with Parking capabilities on Azure Kubernetes Services at Cluster level
How Parking AKS is done in Turbonomic?
AKS Clusters in Scope - After the discovery of Azure Kubernetes Service resources from their Azure cloud subscriptions, displaying it over the Parking UI as AKS Cluster workloads where Parking actions are allowed to be executed on them
AKS Cluster workloads could be Parked manually (Toggle action, Parking Schedule) and using Parking policies where the actions could be automated at scale
Key Outcome: Ensure Cost Savings over VM Compute while Parking AKS Cluster workloads
Benefits from Parking AKS Cluster: Cost Optimization
Primary Cost Savings (Realized$) – Stopping a Cluster
VM Compute costs (Underlying Nodes in the Cluster) -- $ depends on the total# of nodes, family size…
Costs$ that continue
Managed Volumes/Disks
Network IP
Control Plane
Navigate to realize cost$ Savings
Users could use the "Cumulative Realized Savings" widget to verify the outcome of Parking AKS cluster workloads, alike any other Parkable workloads like VMs, Database...
Cloud Widget: Cumulative Savings scoped on the workloads, time period
Group by action type, provides the parking driven savings (Action type: Suspend (includes Node & VM Suspend actions from Turbonomic Action Center as well)
Download the report to validate the savings by individual Parking specific actions
Scope: To be changes to workloads specific to your environment (say, Groups, Entity Types..)
Timeframe: Specific time period where the Parking actions were taken
Action Type: Grouping by "Suspend" action type
How to avail this Feature
Please reach out to your respective IBM Representatives to know the feature enablement process
What's Next
With your feedback & ideas on this Preview version, improvements will be done and the feature will be released for GA (General Availability)
GA will enable this feature by default to all IBM Turbonomic customers, who will be upgraded to the latest version by the time of release
For more feedback/Add Ideas..
https://ideas.ibm.com
Watch out this Turbonomic Kubernetes parking space… More to come…
Managed Kubernetes Service
Try Turbonomic: For your organization to optimize performance and cloud costs to drive value https://www.ibm.com/products/turbonomic
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