From Cloud Bills to GitOps: Our FinOps Journey with Kubernetes
Bringing FinOps into Kubernetes with cost visibility, GitOps workflows, and shared ownership of cloud spending. With Nuno Guedes at KCD Porto 2025.
Presented with Nuno Guedes at KCD Porto 2025, 3 November 2025.
Cloud spending is an engineering concern as well as a finance concern. In this session, we shared our experience introducing FinOps into Kubernetes and using GitOps to make costs easier to understand and control.
We covered cost visibility, financial accountability, and the cultural and technical work needed for teams to take ownership of their cloud usage. The focus was on practical lessons: what helped, what failed, and how to improve spending without slowing delivery.