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DevOps Cost Discipline

Bridge DevOps and FinOps.

Tier
Engineer
Modules
7
Lessons
33
Time
~5 hours
Your progress
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7 modules. 33 lessons.

M5.1

Tagging strategy that survives reorgs

Tagging strategy that survives reorgs

5lessons ·~45 min
L1 Tags as organizational debt L2 Minimum viable tag set (MVT) L3 Inheritance, propagation, defaults L4 Drift detection + remediation L5 Reorg-proof tagging Open module overview →
M5.2

Schedule design patterns

Schedule design patterns

5lessons ·~45 min
L1 Four envs: dev / test / stage / prod L2 Scale-to-one weekend pattern L3 Rolling test environment L4 Freeze windows L5 Demo / prod-like environments Open module overview →
M5.3

K8s cost discipline

K8s cost discipline

6lessons ·~54 min
L1 Requests and limits: the math behind the bill L2 HPA: the signal it gives you L3 The seven idle workload shapes L4 Single-replica deployments: reliability vs cost L5 Security signals: privileged, root, host network L6 Orphan PVCs and released PVs Open module overview →
M5.4

Multi-account architecture for cost isolation

Multi-account architecture for cost isolation

5lessons ·~45 min
L1 Per-team vs per-env accounts L2 Shared services accounts L3 Network architecture and egress cost L4 Cross-account scheduling concerns L5 Consolidate vs split Open module overview →
M5.5

Reliability vs cost

Reliability vs cost

4lessons ·~36 min
L1 The line: what's worth the cost L2 Backup retention as cost L3 DR: RTO/RPO costs L4 Reliability theatre anti-pattern Open module overview →
M5.6

IaC + cost

IaC + cost

4lessons ·~36 min
L1 Tag enforcement in Terraform / CDK / Pulumi L2 IaC drift detection L3 Pre-merge cost estimation L4 Blast radius: import / move / destroy Open module overview →
M5.7

Incident response when cost is the incident

Incident response when cost is the incident

4lessons ·~36 min
L1 When cost becomes a SEV L2 Cost incident commander L3 Communication patterns L4 Cost-aware action items Open module overview →

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