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DevOps Cost Discipline

Bridge DevOps and FinOps.

Tier
Engineer
Modules
9
Lessons
41
Quizzes
9
Time
~7 hours
Your progress
0 of 41 lessons complete0%

9 modules. 41 lessons. 9 quizzes.

M5.1

Tagging strategy that survives reorgs

Build a tagging scheme that survives a reorganisation, inherits rather than repeats, and is checked for drift.

5lessons ·1quiz ·~45 min
Q

Tagging strategy that survives reorgs: module quiz

M5.2

Schedule design patterns

Build the schedule pattern each environment needs, including the ones that cannot simply be switched off.

5lessons ·1quiz ·~45 min
Q

Schedule design patterns: module quiz

M5.3

K8s cost discipline

Get Kubernetes cost under control, from requests and limits to autoscaler history, idle workloads and orphaned storage.

6lessons ·1quiz ·~54 min
Q

K8s cost discipline: module quiz

M5.4

Multi-account architecture for cost isolation

Use cloud accounts as a cost boundary. How to divide them, what to share, and what the network between them costs.

5lessons ·1quiz ·~45 min
Q

Multi-account architecture for cost isolation: module quiz

M5.5

Reliability vs cost

Decide what reliability is worth per workload, and recognise the spending that protects nothing.

4lessons ·1quiz ·~36 min
Q

Reliability vs cost: module quiz

M5.6

IaC + cost

Catch cost and tagging problems in the pull request, and detect the drift that opens after it.

4lessons ·1quiz ·~36 min
Q

IaC + cost: module quiz

M5.7

Incident response when cost is the incident

Handle the day cost becomes an emergency. What counts, who runs it, who hears what, and what changes afterwards.

4lessons ·1quiz ·~36 min
Q

Incident response when cost is the incident: module quiz

M5.8

IaC governance

Gate your own Terraform and OpenTofu changes against a policy engine that decides but never enforces, including priced cost guardrails in the pull request.

4lessons ·1quiz ·~36 min
Q

IaC governance: module quiz

M5.9

Cost work in the ticket system

Connect Jira, open tickets from recommendations manually or by policy, and keep recommendation status and ticket status in agreement without a polling cron.

4lessons ·1quiz ·~36 min
Q

Cost work in the ticket system: module quiz

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Foundations takes about five hours. The first lesson is nine minutes.

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