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Blog PostUpdated Aug 20, 2026

EKS Pricing Components, Hidden Costs, and 6 Ways to Optimize

A practical breakdown of Amazon EKS pricing components, often-overlooked add-on costs, and six actionable strategies to reduce your EKS bill.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 5, 2026

Kubernetes Performance: 10 Key Metrics & Tuning Guide

Kubernetes performance is defined by the efficiency, reliability, and speed of your cluster. Key areas include pod startup times, API server responsiveness, and resource consumption. Optimizing it requires fine-tuning resource allocations, avoiding CPU throttling, and using tools like ClusterLoader2

Blog PostUpdated Aug 5, 2026

Managed Kubernetes Pricing: Cost Factors & Optimization

Kubernetes is free, but running it isn't. Break down control plane fees, worker node, storage, and networking costs across EKS, GKE, AKS, and DOKS, plus five optimization strategies.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 5, 2026

Horizontal vs Vertical scaling

Learn about the pros and cons of horizontal and vertical scaling to optimize your system's performance.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 5, 2026

Kubernetes 1.37 Release: New Features, Beta & Stable Changes

Kubernetes v1.37 releases Aug 26, 2026. Get a breakdown of the biggest stable, beta, and alpha changes — Metrics API GA, pod-level resources, DRA device ta

Blog PostUpdated Aug 4, 2026

How to Talk to Your Kubernetes Cluster Using AI (Yes, Really)

Explore how AI tools like K8sGPT, Botkube, and KoPylot simplify Kubernetes management through automation, diagnostics, and natural language interfaces.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 3, 2026

Kubernetes Scheduling: How It Works and Key Influencing Factors

Discover how Kubernetes scheduling works, assigning pods to nodes while ensuring balanced, resilient workloads. Learn key factors ischeduling decisions.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 29, 2026

Guide to KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaler) with an example

Find out what is KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaler), and take a look at an example of using KEDA for Cron-based scaling.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 28, 2026

Kubernetes Node Not Ready: Troubleshoot Common Causes & Best Practices

Learn what is Kubernetes Node NotReady, the causes of the status, troubleshooting, and methods to prevent the Node Not Ready status.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 27, 2026

How Much AWS Savings Plans Commitment Is Right? The Sizing Problem, and How to Stop Guessing

The 'right' Savings Plans commitment isn't a number you find once—it's a moving target. Here's why sizing it is so hard, and how to stop guessing.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 22, 2026

Understanding Kubernetes Secrets: A Comprehensive Guide

Learn everything about Kubernetes Secrets: types, how to create and manage them, best practices, and secure alternatives. A complete guide!

Blog PostUpdated Jul 20, 2026

Kubernetes Cost Optimization Tools: Top 8 in 2026

Top Kubernetes cost optimization tools include PerfectScale, Cast AI, and ScaleOps, which are useful for detailed, granular cost allocation and monitoring.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 15, 2026

Your Kubernetes node pool strategy was stale before you saved the file

Your Kubernetes node pool strategy goes stale the moment you save the file. Here's why manual planning fails and what continuous optimization looks like.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 13, 2026

Kubernetes Monitoring: Metrics, Technologies, and Tips for Success

Kubernetes (K8s) monitoring is the essential process of collecting metrics, logs, and events from clusters, nodes, and pods to ensure stability, performance, and resource optimization. It involves tracking CPU/memory usage, pod uptime, and application health, crucial for managing the dynamic and ephemeral nature of containerized environments.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 25, 2026

Fine-Grained Pod-Scaling in Kubernetes: Beyond HPA and VPA

Standard HPA and VPA fall short for complex workloads. Discover how multi-layered telemetry and in-place pod resizing enable precise, workload-aware Kubernetes autoscaling.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 12, 2026

Kubernetes Logs: Types, Commands & 6 Best Practices

In Kubernetes, logs provide the primary means of observing application behavior and troubleshooting cluster issues. Because pods are ephemeral, Kubernetes manages logs by capturing stdout and stderr streams from containers and storing them as temporary files on the node.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 11, 2026

Kubernetes Events: How to View, Filter & Troubleshoot Them

Kubernetes Events are real-time, short-lived API resources generated whenever a state change, error, or meaningful activity occurs within your cluster. They are useful for debugging issues and auditing cluster health.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 8, 2026

Kubernetes Architecture: 7 Layers Every Engineer Must Know

A layer-by-layer mental model of Kubernetes, from nodes and networking to orchestration and autoscaling, so you can debug cluster issues at the root instead of chasing symptoms.

Blog PostUpdated May 27, 2026

PerfectScale by DoiT: Spring 2025 Releases Recap

Customized optimization policy, enhanced automation flexibility, Windows containers support, advanced workload insights, and more are available at PerfectScale.

Blog PostUpdated May 26, 2026

The Table You Actually Want

A tables engine refactor gave us the chance to ship what users kept asking for: customizable columns, saved per user. Here are the design calls we made along the way.

Blog PostUpdated May 22, 2026

Ultimate Guide to Automated Kubernetes Cost Optimization

A practical guide to automated Kubernetes cost optimization: identifying inefficiencies, implementing automation, and comparing tools like PerfectScale, Densify, and Kubecost.

Blog PostUpdated May 21, 2026

Why Kubernetes Optimization Still Leaves Savings Behind

Rightsizing pods and nodes can leave savings on the table if cloud commitments stay unchanged. Here's why FinOps and DevOps must align commitment management with Kubernetes optimization.

Blog PostUpdated May 11, 2026

Maximizing Cost Savings with Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

Discover how to maximize cost savings with Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances in this comprehensive article.

Blog PostUpdated May 11, 2026

ECS vs EKS vs Fargate: Comparing Container Orchestration Services

ECS vs EKS vs Fargate: an in-depth comparison, helping you make an informed decision for your infrastructure needs.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 30, 2026

Kubernetes 1.36 Release: New Features, Stable APIs & Breaking Changes

Kubernetes 1.36 "Haru" ships 70 enhancements: HPA scale-to-zero, OCI volumes, user namespaces GA, gang scheduling & breaking changes. Full technical breakdown.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 27, 2026

AI on Kubernetes and the (Dis)Economies of Scale

66% of organizations hosting generative AI models have fully integrated their inference workloads into K8s clusters. Manual optimization doesn’t cut it anymore.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 22, 2026

Kubernetes JobSet Explained: Features, Setup, and Examples (2026)

JobSet lets you manage multiple Kubernetes Jobs as one unit. Learn its core features, how it differs from plain Jobs, and how to get started.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 14, 2026

Kubernetes 1.36 Release: New Features, Beta & Stable Changes (April 2026)

Kubernetes 1.36 releases April 22, 2026 with 80 enhancements. Covers stable user namespaces, OCI volumes, HPA scale-to-zero, and 26 new alpha features.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 7, 2026

Recap: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026

KubeCon Amsterdam 2026 recap covering key trends in Cloud Native, AI, and Platform Engineering.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 16, 2026

2025 year in review

How PerfectScale’s product direction turns Kubernetes cost and efficiency trends into product execution.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 13, 2026

Your Kubernetes Resource Limits Are Breaking Your JVM

Kubernetes memory limits silently misconfigure JVM heap sizing, triggering OOM crashes and GC thrashing. Here's why it happens and how to fix it across your Java workloads.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 11, 2026

PerfectScale by DoiT Achieves ISO 27001 Certification

PerfectScale by DoiT's security program and infrastructure earned ISO 27001 certification, covering access control, data protection, incident response, and risk management.

Blog PostUpdated Jan 27, 2026

Cloud Cost Optimization: Best Practices to Reduce Your Bill

Cloud cost optimization best practices to reduce your bill, improve efficiency, and control cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and GCP in 2026.

Blog PostUpdated Jan 5, 2026

Kubernetes v1.35: What’s New & Improved?

A breakdown of Kubernetes v1.35 (Timbernetes): 17 stable, 19 beta, and 22 alpha features, including in-place Pod resource updates, gang scheduling, and key deprecations.

Blog PostUpdated Dec 17, 2025

Q4 2025 Releases Recap

Safely cut K8s costs and boost its efficiency and performance with in-place workload rightsizing, Java containers optimization, Argo Rollouts support, and more

Blog PostUpdated Dec 16, 2025

Argo Rollouts

Advanced Argo rollout-aware automation to align K8s optimization with your strategies and operations

Blog PostUpdated Dec 3, 2025

Kubernetes v1.35 Sneak Peek

Explore what's new in Kubernetes v1.35- Pod Certificates, in-place updates, taint operators, OCI volumes, and more.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 24, 2025

AWS Cost Optimization Best Practices and Tools

A practical guide to AWS cost optimization covering pricing models, right-sizing, storage tiering, Graviton4, automation, and native and third-party FinOps tools.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 4, 2025

5 Strategies to Optimize Java in 2026

Boost Kubernetes performance and efficiency with 5 proven Java application optimization strategies

Blog PostUpdated Oct 29, 2025

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

A guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, highlighting five must-see Kubernetes cost optimization sessions and PerfectScale by DoiT at booth 533.

Blog PostUpdated Oct 20, 2025

Top Ten Kubernetes Reliability Risks

Discover the top 10 Kubernetes reliability risks that can impact performance and uptime and learn how to prevent them effectively.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 29, 2025

How to Allocate Kubernetes Resource Ownership

Learn why clear ownership in Kubernetes is critical to avoid chaos, control costs, and secure workloads across teams and environments.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 25, 2025

Summer 2025 Releases Recap

Discover new pricing integrations, top-notch optimization capabilities, enhanced visibility, and administration updates are now available in PerfectScale.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 18, 2025

10 Kubernetes Errors you must know(and How to Fix Them)

CreateContainerConfigError and CreateContainerError getting you down? Get clarity on these error messages' meanings and how to troubleshoot them with examples.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 18, 2025

PerfectScale Introduces In-Place K8s Workload Right-sizing

PerfectScale introduces in-place Kubernetes pod right-sizing, adjusting CPU and memory without restarts to cut waste while keeping clusters stable and consistent.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 18, 2025

10 Kubernetes Errors you must know(and How to Fix Them)

Discover 10 common Kubernetes errors like CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackOff, and OOMKilled, and learn how to fix them quickly.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 11, 2025

Checklist for Building Resilient Kubernetes Applications

A checklist for Kubernetes reliability; learn best practices to build resilient, highly available apps that withstand failures in production.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 2, 2025

Kubernetes v1.34: What's New and Improved?

Kubernetes v1.34: 'Of Wind & Will' sets sail with 58 enhancements; advancing scaling, security, device management, tracing, and more.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 26, 2025

Kubernetes Cost Reduction in 5 Steps

Learn 5 proven steps for Kubernetes cost reduction, from rightsizing and autoscaling to FinOps, and cut cloud spend without hurting performance.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 18, 2025

Kubernetes v1.34 Sneak Peek

Kubernetes v1.34 sneak peek: new features like DRA, KYAML, tracing, smarter traffic routing & autoscaling for a more secure, efficient cluster.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 13, 2025

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 Highlights

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 in Hyderabad: Keynotes, AI in Kubernetes, observability, scaling, and PerfectScale by DoiT highlights

Blog PostUpdated Aug 12, 2025

How to Avoid These 6 Common Kubernetes Implementation Mistake

Learn 6 common Kubernetes mistakes and how to avoid them to boost performance, cut costs, and keep your clusters secure and reliable.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 29, 2025

KubeCon +CloudNativeCon India 2025

Don’t miss these 5 must-attend talks at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025, plus meet the PerfectScale team at Booth S12 in Hyderabad!

Blog PostUpdated Jul 23, 2025

Kubernetes Cost Optimization

Master Kubernetes cost optimization with 10 proven tactics. Rightsize, autoscale, cut idle waste, and keep reliability high. Step-by-step guide inside.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 30, 2025

GPU Optimization with Exceptional PerfectScale Visibility

PerfectScale's new GPU Visibility feature reveals GPU utilization across Kubernetes clusters, helping teams right-size instances, apply MIG splitting, and use KAI Scheduler to reduce waste.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 26, 2025

Manage & Scale GenAI on Kubernetes

Check out a deep dive into managing and scaling Generative AI on Kubernetes.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 25, 2025

GCP Cloud Billing with PerfectScale

PerfectScale now integrates with GCP Cloud Billing, bringing real-time GKE cost data into the platform for granular visibility, precise optimization, and impact-aware decisions.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 13, 2025

Troubleshooting Kubernetes with AI - Part Two: Using the K8s MCP server

Explore how to troubleshoot Kubernetes with AI using the MCP server, agentic frameworks, and multiple LLM providers for smarter, scalable automation.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 11, 2025

FinOps in 2025: Automate or Burn Out

Explore the six stages of FinOps maturity from observation to automation and learn why the future of cloud cost optimization is continuous and automated.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 10, 2025

Kubectl Cheat Sheet

Essential kubectl cheat sheet with top commands & flags to manage Kubernetes clusters—quick reference for pods, deployments, services, namespaces, and more.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 10, 2025

Precise K8s node optimization with PerfectScale by DoiT

PerfectScale introduces comprehensive node utilization visibility and data-driven insights to drive precise optimization of your underlying K8s infrastructure.

Blog PostUpdated May 21, 2025

Understanding Cost Seasonality in Kubernetes

Discover why Kubernetes costs fluctuate with seasons and learn smart strategies to manage them using tools like HPA, KEDA, Karpenter, and PerfectScale.

Blog PostUpdated May 16, 2025

Top Kubernetes Cluster Management Tools in 2025

A guide to the top Kubernetes cluster management tools in 2025, covering key benefits, selection criteria, and comparisons of PerfectScale, Kubernetes Dashboard, Rancher, GKE, AKS, and EKS.

Blog PostUpdated May 13, 2025

Cut GKE Node Costs with NAP and PerfectScale

Learn how GKE Node Auto-Provisioning and PerfectScale optimize Kubernetes scaling, reduce costs, and simplify workload management

Blog PostUpdated May 9, 2025

GKE Cost Optimization Best Practices

Learn what is GKE, understand the GKE pricing and what are the best practices for GKE cost optimization

Blog PostUpdated Apr 29, 2025

Kubernetes v1.33: What's New and Improved?

The artcile highlights v1.33's major updates, including 47 enhancements, showcasing advancements in resource management, security, and efficiency.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 25, 2025

Demystifying AI Native Dev and Ops

Join industry pioneer Patrick Debois and PerfectScale’s Chief Storyteller - Ant Weiss to investigate GenAI coding for devs and ops beyond the buzz.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 15, 2025

AKS Cost Optimization Best Practices

Learn what is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), understand the AKS pricing and what the best practices for AKS cost optimization are.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 11, 2025

How to Optimize Karpenter for Efficiency and Cost

A practical guide to tuning Karpenter for efficiency and cost, covering node lifecycle, consolidation policies, and why default best practices sometimes backfire in real environments.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 10, 2025

Karpenter: What is Karpenter and Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Let’s dive deeper into the pitfalls of Karpenter and how you can avoid them to ensure smooth operations in your Kubernetes clusters.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 9, 2025

How to build your own simple AI agent to troubleshoot Kubernetes

Learn how you can build Kubernetes troubleshooting assistant using the recently released AutoGen v0.4 AgentChat functionality

Blog PostUpdated Apr 7, 2025

EKS Split Cost Allocation

Learn how Split Cost Allocation for EKS helps connect spend and services in this blog recap of our Frugal Architect webinar with AWS’s Nataliya Godunok.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 3, 2025

Kubernetes v1.33: Sneak Peek

Kubernetes v1.33 comes with important changes that help streamline operations, improve security, and enhance overall functionality. Here are some of the updates

Blog PostUpdated Apr 1, 2025

Amazon EKS Cost Optimization Best Practices

Learn what is Amazon EKS, understand the EKS pricing and what are the best practices for EKS cost optimization

Blog PostUpdated Mar 25, 2025

ARM Instances Explained with Practical AWS Example

What are arm instances, the benefits, how to set up a ARM based cluster, and how to build and deploy ARM-compatible applications in aws.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 20, 2025

AI & SDLC: How Systems Thinking Impacts Software Delivery

Explore AI’s impact on SDLC, DevOps, and system stability using systems thinking. Learn how AI-native development reshapes speed, testing, and reliability.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 10, 2025

PerfectScale by DoiT: Winter 2025 Releases Recap

Discover enhanced automation, advanced alerting, upgraded visibility, and expanded Kubernetes cost control with the latest PerfectScale by DoiT updates.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 9, 2025

Product Video - Advanced Workload Visibility

PerfectScale by DoiT introduces an upgraded workload view that enhances visibility for straightforward workload management and analysis.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 6, 2025

[LIVE] Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA): Q&A

Check out Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) LIVE with Zbynek Roubalik, CTO of Kedify & KEDA maintainer—top questions answered!

Blog PostUpdated Mar 6, 2025

Meet PerfectScale at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon London 2025

Your guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon London 2025: networking tips, swag strategy, and where to find PerfectScale by DoiT—booth S583 for live K8s optimization demos.

Blog PostUpdated Feb 27, 2025

Hands-on Guide on Kubernetes Resource Quotas & Limit Ranges

Kubernetes Resource Quotas & Limit Ranges Explained – With Practical Examples

Blog PostUpdated Feb 25, 2025

Future of DevOps Automation

Learn from industry expert Adam Jacob, co-creator of Chef and CEO of System Initiative, about the future of Infrastructure-as-code (IAC).

Blog PostUpdated Feb 24, 2025

Financial Alerts with PerfectScale by DoiT

Financial alerts enable proactive cost monitoring and optimization, helping to stay within budget, prevent overspending, and maximize Kubernetes efficiency

Blog PostUpdated Feb 18, 2025

Azure Cost Management with PerfectScale

Azure Cost Management integration gives exceptional Kubernetes cost visibility and control, enhancing your optimization strategy with data-driven recommendation

Blog PostUpdated Feb 12, 2025

Autonomous Ephemeral Workload Optimization from PerfectScale by DoiT

PerfectScale offers autonomous right-sizing for ephemeral workloads like Airflow, Spark Jobs, and others, ensuring seamless optimization for dynamic environment

Blog PostUpdated Feb 10, 2025

Kubernetes GPU Resource Management Best Practices

Learn best practices for Kubernetes GPU management to optimize costs, enhance performance, and ensure scalable, reliable clusters for smooth GPU workloads.

Blog PostUpdated Feb 4, 2025

DoiT + PerfectScale: Paving the Future for K8s Optimization

Learn more about DoiT's acquisition of PerfectScale and what this means for the future of FinOps and K8s Optimization

Blog PostUpdated Feb 4, 2025

Press Release: DoiT Acquires PerfectScale

DoiT announces the acquisition of PerfectScale, an automated Kubernetes optimization and governance platform, expanding DoiT Cloud Intelligence for containerized workloads at scale.

Blog PostUpdated Jan 8, 2025

Kubernetes Node: Huge Nodes vs. Small Nodes

Learn how to optimize your Kubernetes cluster by choosing the right node size for performance and cost efficiency.

Blog PostUpdated Dec 31, 2024

Kubernetes v1.32: What's New and Improved?

The article highlights Kubernetes v1.32's major updates, including 44 enhancements, showcasing advancements in resource management, security, and efficiency.

Blog PostUpdated Dec 23, 2024

PerfectScale Highlights of 2024

A glimpse into an extraordinary year for PerfectScale!

Blog PostUpdated Dec 19, 2024

KubeCon India 2024 Highlights

PerfectScale joined the first-ever KubeCon India 2024! Explore key highlights, insights, and what’s next in our journey to optimize Kubernetes worldwide.

Blog PostUpdated Dec 16, 2024

PerfectScale: Q3 2024 Releases Recap

Uncover the progress PerfectScale made in the last quarter in automation, enhanced KPI visibility, greater extensibility, and much more.

Blog PostUpdated Dec 6, 2024

EKS Auto Mode

AWS announced the general availability of EKS Auto Mode. Learn what EKS Auto Mode is and how to optimize Kubernetes clusters.

Blog PostUpdated Dec 5, 2024

Handling Karpenter Consolidation and Spot Instance Termination

Best practices for managing Karpenter's spot instance termination notifications and strategies for effective Karpenter consolidations.

Blog PostUpdated Dec 4, 2024

PerfectScale: Strategic Partner for Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes

PerfectScale, an Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes partner, optimizes Kubernetes workloads seamlessly across cloud and on-premises environments.

Blog PostUpdated Dec 2, 2024

Nodepool Selection Strategies: Performance vs. Cost

Strategic Nodepool Selection: Exploring decisions around resource sets and family types to optimize performance and cost.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 28, 2024

Top K8s tools community is thankful for this Thanksgiving

Discover the best tools favored by the Kubernetes community for managing clusters this Thanksgiving!

Blog PostUpdated Nov 27, 2024

Serving Large Language Models on Kubernetes without GPU

Ready to delve into the world of AI/ML but don’t have GPUs? Ollama with the qwen2.5 family of models has got you covered. Inference on Kubernetes made easy.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 13, 2024

Karpenter: The Ultimate Guide

Learn how to implement Karpenter in Kubernetes for cost-effective node provisioning, understand best practices, and optimize your EKS workloads.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 12, 2024

PerfectScale Unveils GPU Support and Node-Level Optimization

PerfectScale announces InfraFit node-level optimization and upcoming GPU support, giving teams data-driven insights to cut Kubernetes waste and cloud costs across the full stack.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 6, 2024

Why the etcd Database Size Should Not Exceed 8GB?

etcd community strongly recommends that the database size should not exceed 8GB. Delve into the implications of exceeding the 8GB limit for etcd database.

Blog PostUpdated Oct 29, 2024

Build Like The Frugal Architect

Join Nataliya Godunok to explore AWS Well-Architected best practices and optimize your container infrastructure for peak efficiency.

Blog PostUpdated Oct 28, 2024

Meet PerfectScale at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024

PerfectScale by DoiT is heading to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 in Salt Lake City. Find us at booth T37 and check out our team's top session picks for the conference.

Blog PostUpdated Oct 24, 2024

Kubernetes CPU Limits: Best Practices for Optimal Performance

Avoid unnecessary Kubernetes CPU limits for smoother workload operation.. Check out this guide with these Kubernetes CPU limit best practices.

Blog PostUpdated Oct 16, 2024

Kubernetes Health Checks: Ensure Performance and Availability

Keep your applications running smoothly with K8s health check. Learn the types of probes, types of health checks, how to troubleshoot, and best practices.

Blog PostUpdated Oct 1, 2024

Karpenter vs Cluster Autoscaler: The Ultimate Guide

Discover the pros and cons of Karpenter vs Cluster Autoscaler, and learn which tool can best handle your dynamic resource requirements.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 25, 2024

Scaling Out GenAI with Message Queues on Kubernetes

Discover how message queues can overcome the challenges of managing GenAI workloads efficiently.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 25, 2024

Taints and Tolerations in Kubernetes

Boost resource use by 30% and cut costs by 20% with Kubernetes taints and tolerations.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 11, 2024

Kubernetes CPU Limits - To Set or not to Set

Setting Kubernetes CPU limits may do more harm than good. Learn how leading companies achieved significant performance improvements by removing CPU limits.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 6, 2024

Kubernetes Resource Limits vs Requests: Ultimate Guide

Discover how Kubernetes resource requests vs limits can help you prevent resource contention, evictions, and ensure your pods get the resources they need.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 4, 2024

The Problem with Generic Observability Tools: Why We're Paying Too Much

Stop paying the high price for generic observability tools - take control of your infrastructure costs today!

Blog PostUpdated Aug 30, 2024

Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler

Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler Guide: Learn how it works, implement in EKS, troubleshoot issues, and deploy via Helm.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 28, 2024

Summer 2024 Releases Recap

Discover the latest updates in infrastructure visibility, automation, and trend enhancements, as well as other releases you should know about.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 20, 2024

Kubernetes v1.31: What's New and Improved?

The Kubernetes 1.31 "Elli" update is here. Explore the 45 standout enhancements, including stability upgrades and new resource management capabilities.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 14, 2024

Preemptible Pods

Learn how preemptible pods prioritize critical workloads, optimize node utilization, set up PriorityClasses, and implement pod preemption.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 13, 2024

Kubernetes Version Support Across Major Cloud Providers

Navigating Kubernetes version upgrades? Understand the support policies of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to make informed decisions.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 12, 2024

Kubernetes Vertical Pod Autoscaler

VPA automatically adjusts CPU and memory for your pods. Learn how VPA works, how it relates to HPA, and best practices for optimizing your resource management.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 8, 2024

We Can Resize Pods without Restarts! Or Can't We?

Resize pod CPU and memory on the fly with K8s v1.27! Dynamically adjust resource allocations without disrupting workloads.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 7, 2024

9 Ways to Spin Up an EKS Cluster: Part 4 - CloudFormation

In part 4 of our series 9 Ways Spin Up an AWS Cluster, we show you how create an EKS Cluster with CloudFormation

Blog PostUpdated Jul 29, 2024

Kubernetes v1.30: What's New and Improved?

This article highlights key enhancements and updates introduced in Kubernetes v1.30.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 23, 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Your Kubernetes Clusters Lean

Follow these best practises to improve Kubernetes ROI, improve workload performance, and save time spent on maintenance and troubleshooting.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 22, 2024

Gartner's 2024 Perspective on Container Management

A look into Gartner’s research on Kubernetes adoption and the challenges DevOps and FinOps teams face in managing and governing containerized environments.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 22, 2024

Optimize Node Configurations with LearnK8s & PerfectScale

Discover how to leverage tools like LearnK8s Instance Calculator and PerfectScale to continuously optimize your node configurations for maximum efficiency.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 17, 2024

Continuous Kubernetes Reliability through Automation and Best Practices

Discover the 4 key risk factors and learn how to calculate actual resource usage for reliable, high-performing workloads

Blog PostUpdated Jul 17, 2024

Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)

Mastering Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA): Explore what HPA is, how it works, the implementation of HPA, best practices, and limitations.‍

Blog PostUpdated Jul 16, 2024

PerfectScale Infrafit

Infrafit from PerfectScale empowers you to optimize the underlying infrastructure of your workloads, helping you achieve a fine-tuned K8s environment

Blog PostUpdated Jul 3, 2024

9 Ways to Spin Up an EKS Cluster: Part 3 - eksctl

In part 3 of our series 9 Ways Spin Up an AWS Cluster, we show you how to use eksctl.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 25, 2024

How to fix OOMKilled in Kubernetes

OOMKilled disrupting K8s workloads? Learn root causes and solutions to optimize memory usage and eliminate OOMKilled events.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 19, 2024

Kubernetes alerting for K8s cluster health and performance

A practical guide to the 10 most important Kubernetes alerts, covering OOM events, CPU throttling, evictions, HPA limits, and resource request misconfigurations.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 12, 2024

Scaling Success: The Role of GenAI in Modern DevOps

Join Patrick Debois to learn practical tips on getting started and scalable straightforward strategies to adapt genAI tools into your current workflows

Blog PostUpdated Jun 4, 2024

ImagePullBackOff: Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks

ImagePullBackOff errors slowing you down? Get actionable troubleshooting tips and tricks to fix container image pull issues from registries.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 1, 2024

Kubernetes Alerting: 10 Must-Have Alerts for Proactive Monitoring

Keep your Kubernetes cluster healthy and performing at its best. Discover the top 10 essential alerts to monitor your cluster's health and performance.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 1, 2024

Key Kubernetes Metrics for Optimal Performance Monitoring

Essential Kubernetes metrics to track for optimal cluster management and performance optimization.

Blog PostUpdated May 30, 2024

PerfectScale Datadog Marketplace

Unlock optimization of your Kubernetes clusters to proactively eliminate waste while enhancing stability and performance.

Blog PostUpdated May 24, 2024

PerfectScale: May 2024 Releases Recap

Explore the PerfectScale updates digest for the latest releases, including Automation, Alerts, Grouping, and Administration enhancements.

Blog PostUpdated May 22, 2024

Getting the most out of Karpenter with PerfectScale

Learn how PerfectScale plus Karpenter can provide and additional 30 to 50% in cost reductions on top of what can achieved with Karpenter alone.

Blog PostUpdated May 17, 2024

K8S Sustainability: Optimize Your Clusters to Save the Planet!

Join Pini Reznik to learn the relationship between IT sustainability, cost, and performance in the cloud-native world.

Blog PostUpdated May 9, 2024

Best Kubecost Alternatives

A rundown of 10 Kubecost alternatives, from PerfectScale and Cast.ai to open-source OpenCost, to help you monitor, allocate, and optimize Kubernetes and cloud costs.

Blog PostUpdated May 6, 2024

DXI Market Movers Report Highlights

The DXI Market Movers report recognizes PerfectScale as a Kubernetes-focused optimization and automation platform balancing cost and performance. Here are the highlights.

Blog PostUpdated May 1, 2024

Top 10 Critical Kubernetes Reliability Risks

Discover the top 10 Kubernetes reliability risks causing outages and learn how to identify and mitigate them to boost cluster stability proactively.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 24, 2024

WASM and Kubernetes: A Match Made in Heaven?

Join Saiyam Pathak and Ant Weiss to learn the advantages of WebAssembly for the cloud-native ecosystem and the challenges on the way to its adoption.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 16, 2024

AWS CUR Release Announcement

Get complete control over Kubernetes costs through detailed tracking, optimization insights, and data-driven strategies.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 10, 2024

CrashLoopBackoff Kubernetes: An Ultimate Guide

Kubernetes CrashLoopBackOff errors slowing your deployments? Learn causes, diagnosis commands, and proven fixes.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 3, 2024

WASM on Kubernetes made simple with SpinKube

Fermyon's new SpinKube project allows running lightweight WASM workloads natively on K8s, bridging the gap between cutting-edge WASM and K8s.

Blog PostUpdated Apr 1, 2024

9 Ways to Spin Up an EKS Cluster Part 2 - AWS CLI

In part 2 of our series 9 Ways Spin Up an AWS Cluster, we show you how to use AWS CLI.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 29, 2024

9 Ways to Spin Up an EKS Cluster Part 1: AWS Management Console

Join us as we explore 9 ways to spin up an EKS Cluster, staring with part one: The AWS Management Console.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 27, 2024

cgroups and MemoryQoS w/ Bottlerocket

Understand how Bottlerockets new distribution works for process organization and enforcing resource limits EKS clusters running Kubernetes.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 22, 2024

Exploring Cluster Cost Monitoring Tools

A guide to cluster cost monitoring: why it matters, key features like real-time tracking and alerts, and a rundown of top tools including PerfectScale, Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 20, 2024

InfraFit and AWS CUR Support Release

PerfectScale now provides more accurate and prescriptive insights, empowering organizations to maximize the utilization and cost-effectiveness.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 14, 2024

Who’s Afraid of GitOps?

Join industry expert Ian Miell as he deep dives into GitOps, its challenges, and how to tackle them for large-scale production use.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 14, 2024

How can a devops team take advantage of AI?

AI can automate code generation, incident management, predictive analytics, and resource optimization for DevOps teams. Explore top tools and key challenges like data privacy and integration.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 11, 2024

Is GitOps really the path forward?

Is GitOps the future? Explore how GitOps uses Git workflows to automate infrastructure and app deployment for managing dynamic, automated environments.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 7, 2024

Best Kubernetes Monitoring Tools and Solutions

A guide to top Kubernetes monitoring tools, comparing PerfectScale, Kubernetes Dashboard, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK Stack, Sematext, Jaeger, and New Relic.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 7, 2024

The Best Kubernetes Management Tools

A guide to six Kubernetes management tools, from PerfectScale's autonomous right-sizing and cost optimization to Rancher, Kubernetes Dashboard, GKE, AKS, and EKS.

Blog PostUpdated Feb 29, 2024

Karpenter Monitoring with Prometheus

Optimize Kubernetes autoscaling processes and strengthen your infrastructure with a powerful guide for monitoring Karpenter with Prometheus.

Blog PostUpdated Feb 28, 2024

Eliminating Kubernetes Resiliency Risks with PerfectScale

See how PerfectScale boosts K8s stability and resilience by identifying and resolving issues from under-provisioned resources, ensuring a reliable environment.

Blog PostUpdated Feb 22, 2024

Optimizing Throughout the Platform Engineering Maturity Model

Join Abby Bangser to learn the role of optimization throughout the Platform Engineering Maturity model and the varying impacts at each level of the model.

Blog PostUpdated Feb 19, 2024

[WEBINAR] Fine-tune Your K8s Clusters for Optimal Cost and Performance

Join PerfectScale's Kubernetes optimization experts unveil a strategic approach to fine-tuning your clusters without jeopardizing the app stability.

Blog PostUpdated Feb 16, 2024

Putting K8s Resources to Sleep with KEDA

Learn how to use KEDA with a Cron Scaler for time-based scheduling, Custom Metrics API Scaler, and Network Scaler to down-scale your Kubernetes workloads to 0.

Blog PostUpdated Feb 15, 2024

Application Sustainability in the Kubernetes Era

Understand K8s role in the path to application sustainability and PerfectScales goal to ensure application stability and sustainability can meet seamlessly.

Blog PostUpdated Feb 7, 2024

Jan 2024 Product Releases

Check out PerfectScale's latest innovations including: Node-level Trend Reporting, New Resiliency Risk Indicators, and Alerts Acknowledgements.

Blog PostUpdated Feb 1, 2024

Understanding AWS S3 throttling with Examples

How do you avoid AWS S3 throttling issues? Learn from first hand experience from the PerfectScale team with benchmarks on our finding.

Blog PostUpdated Jan 30, 2024

EKS IAM: OIDC Vs. Pod Identity

Making the Right AWS IAM Choice. We’ll compare the AWS EKS Pod Identity methodology to the OIDC from a practical viewpoint.

Blog PostUpdated Jan 24, 2024

AWS EKS BottleRocket Nodes

Understand the benefits and advantages of AWS BottleRocket and learn how to leverage them with this step-by-step installation guide.

Blog PostUpdated Dec 1, 2023

Highlights of 2023: The Year Of Growth For PerfectScale

A look back at PerfectScale's 2023: $7.1M in funding, major product launches like PodFit and carbon visibility, new clients, industry awards, and a tripled team.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 30, 2023

AWS RI Reselling Ban

A full breakdown of AWS's policy change that bans on reselling discounted Reserved Instance, effective on January 15, 2024.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 29, 2023

PerfectScale achieves AWS SRP Certification

PerfectScale has achieved the prestigious Amazon EKS Service Ready designation, showcasing their commitment to simply Kubernetes optimization for AWS users.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 27, 2023

Automate OSS License Checks

Understand how to set up automated workflows to ensure you are in OSS licensing compliance with this step-by-step guide using GitHub Actions.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 27, 2023

Product Update: Revision Aware Optimization

PerfectScale launches Revision Aware Optimization, adding an additional layer to ensure K8s cost optimization actions are accurate and safe to implement.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 22, 2023

AWS ECS vs EKS: Which One to Choose?

ECS offers simplicity and deep AWS integration with no control plane fee, while EKS delivers Kubernetes flexibility and portability. This guide breaks down the differences to help you choose.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 15, 2023

Best Kubernetes Monitoring Tools in 2025

A guide to Kubernetes monitoring: what it is, key metrics to track, pros and cons, and a comparison of top tools like PerfectScale, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and Jaeger.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 8, 2023

Understand the Carbon Impact of Your Kubernetes Environment

PrefectScale launches Kubernetes Carbon Footprint Visibility for clusters running in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Blog PostUpdated Oct 31, 2023

Partner Program

PerfectScale launches partner program, empowering resellers, MSPs and constancy to optimize their clients K8s environments.

Blog PostUpdated Oct 12, 2023

Platform Engineering vs DevOps vs. SRE

This blog post will explore the concept of Platform Engineering, the reasons for its increasing importance, and how it differs from SRE and DevOps.

Blog PostUpdated Oct 3, 2023

PerfectScale Raises $7.1M to Transform Kubernetes Optimization

PerfectScale secures $7.1M seed funding led by Blumberg Capital, with support from UpWest, Prelude Ventures, and others, totaling nearly $10M since 2022.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 28, 2023

Highlighted talks of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023

PerfectScale engineers handpick the must-see KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 sessions, from Kubernetes cost optimization at Intuit and AWS to batch compute efficiency at Uber.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 22, 2023

PerfectScale Recognized as Gartner Cool Vendor

PerfectScale earns Gartner Cool Vendor recognition in Container Management and unveils its upcoming Automated Scaler for continuous, safe Kubernetes workload right-sizing.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 3, 2023

Invisible Kubernetes

Platform Engineering evolves with IDPs, boosting speed, productivity, and ensuring the health, stability, and cost-effectiveness of environments.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 18, 2023

PerfectScale - AWS Marketplace

Unleashing Next-Gen Kubernetes Resilience and Optimization for Al. Optimize your K8s costs and improve the stability and resilience of your environment.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 11, 2023

451 Research: Initial Coverage - PerfectScale

451 Research – S&P Global Market Intelligence has released initial coverage of PerfectScale, analyzing our Kubernetes optimization platform, market trends, and business model.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 6, 2023

Kubernetes Cost Optimization and SRE Toil

Reducing K8s costs is an important objective for many companies. But can aggressively optimizing increase SRE toil and firefighting scenarios?

Blog PostUpdated Jun 27, 2023

Implementing Autoscaling for Optimal K8s Performance

PerfectScale's CTO, Eli Birger, discusses how properly autoscaling K8s is key to ensuring your enrichment is performing optimally and remaining cost effective.

Blog PostUpdated Jun 12, 2023

Karpenter and AWS Reserved Instances

Step-by-step tutorial how to leverage AWS Reserved Instances with Karpenter can help you maximize savings for your Kubernetes cluster

Blog PostUpdated Jun 6, 2023

Product Announcements : May 2023 Releases

Check out all the details of our latest product releases including the launch of Alerts and integrations with DataDog and Grafana.

Blog PostUpdated May 24, 2023

Unlock the Full Potential of Kubernetes Autoscaling

PerfectScale and Opsfleet will cover key strategies for scaling your Kubernetes clusters and best practices to ensure optimal scaling results.

Blog PostUpdated May 22, 2023

PerfectScale is Officially SOC 2 Compliant

PerfectScale is excited to announce their Kubernetes optimization and governance platform is officially SOC 2 Compliant.

Blog PostUpdated May 16, 2023

Terraform for Loop: Managing Multiple Resources in Terraform

How to use Terraform for Loop and keys to ensure that Terraform does not accidentally destroy your resources.

Blog PostUpdated May 10, 2023

Top DevOps Solution 2023

PerfectScale made CIOReviews list of top DevOps Solutions for 2023 for its Kubernetes continious optimization and governance platform.

Blog PostUpdated May 9, 2023

Monitoring PostgreSQL with Prometheus Operator

Use Prometheus Postgres Exporter to gain deeper insights into the performance, health, and behavior of your PostgreSQL databases.

Blog PostUpdated May 2, 2023

Jira Integration

Streamline how you cut K8s cloud cost and improve cluster performance and resilience with PerfectScale's Jira Integration.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 29, 2023

PodFit Overview

Cut K8s cloud cost while improving system reliability and perfromance with PerfectScale's PodFit solution.

Blog PostUpdated Mar 7, 2023

PerfectScale's SaaS Platform is Now Available

PerfectScale's SaaS Platform is now generally available.

Blog PostUpdated Feb 14, 2023

Kubernetes Cost Optimization - What Could Go Wrong???

Kubernetes cost optimization involves trade-offs between cost and performance. Explore five common pitfalls and a three-stage strategy from visibility to automated rightsizing.

Blog PostUpdated Feb 1, 2023

What’s the Connection Between your Body and your Kubernetes Environment?

Keeping your K8s environment "physically fit" means eliminating unnecessary costs while improving performance and resilience.

Blog PostUpdated Jan 24, 2023

PerfectScale: Filling the Gaps in the Kubernetes Optimization Toolset

Learn the origin story of PerfectScale and about our unique approach to Kubernetes Continuous Optmisation

Blog PostUpdated Jan 16, 2023

How to Avoid These 6 Common Kubernetes Implementation Mistakes

When starting your Kubernetes journey, it is essential to avoid common mistakes that could slow down or derail the implementation process.

Blog PostUpdated Jan 4, 2023

How to Let Your Kubernetes Environment Flourish

Understand how properly configuring Kubernetes resources can improve performance and resilience while lowering your cloud cost.

Blog PostUpdated Dec 6, 2022

Shortage of Kubernetes DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers

Check out these 5 strategies that have proven to help companies successfully combat the challenges associated with the lack of skilled K8s professionals.

Blog PostUpdated Nov 16, 2022

Is your Kubernetes environment ready for Black Friday?

Do your DevOps and SRE teams have the right Kubernetes solutions in place to ensure a successful Black Friday, Cyber Monday and holiday season?

Blog PostUpdated Oct 5, 2022

8 Tips For Rightsizing Your Kubernetes Cluster

8 Kubernetes cluster size best practices to establish and continually maintain the proper Kubernetes requests and limits.

Blog PostUpdated Sep 22, 2022

What is the Carbon Impact of Kubernetes?

Get a deep dive into how Kubernetes affects the environment—and why continuous optimization is the key to sustainable software.

Blog PostUpdated Aug 11, 2022

The Rise of Kubernetes

Understand the struggles of physical servers and the manual steps in configuring OS, networking, monitoring, firewall, basic libraries, and security patches.

Blog PostUpdated Jul 4, 2022

Product Announcement - July Release

Get the details of PerfectScale’s latest PodFit release and see the new capabilities that simplify right-sizing your Kubernetes pods.