Have you ever felt that the costs of all available managed services or third party setups exceed what you were prepared to spend? Or that you were given a budget that leaves little room for playing around?

At Skira, all statements above appealed to us. To solve these issues we’ve done 4 things: spent time analyzing the billing section, optimized our choice of namespaces, set resource limits, and made use of Helm deployments, all of which have substantially reduced our GCP expenses. I want to share these 4 tips on how to be smarter with your infrastructure choices to avoid the unpleasant bills at the end of the month.

This article specifically targets GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) instances and deployments. The article assumes you have set up a project in GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and have CLI access to your cluster via kubectl. If not, read this article about clustering with kubectl and this article about setting up Google cloud projects and come back!

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