Zesty

10/11/2025

Let's skip the formalities - if you're at KubeCon tomorrow, come see Zesty at booth 1031, talk to us for a few minutes just to score some swag, and maybe inadvertently find a solution to the cost overruns your manager's been bugging you about.

06/11/2025

It's a practice as outdated as this meme template.
Let automation do the heavy lifting for you and ensure your cluster is 100% optimized without breaking a sweat.
https://zesty.co/

05/11/2025

Ever dealt with resources that just won’t die? 🧟‍♂️
Here’s a quick clip from our latest episode — a true DevOps horror story.

🎧 Listen to all the chilling stories in episode 10 of theCronJob:
https://zesty.co/resources/podcasts/

03/11/2025

And there's definitely no need to tell people that we'll be at booth 1031 where they can get our swag.

30/10/2025

Most teams use Karpenter to scale EKS clusters, but very few get the configuration right.
That’s where performance drops and costs climb.

Our latest guide walks through how to configure Karpenter so it actually works for you:
✅ Smarter NodePools and EC2NodeClasses
✅ Spot and On-Demand balance
✅ Consolidation and expiry that cut idle costs

If you’re running Kubernetes on AWS, this is worth a read:
👉 https://zesty.co/finops-academy/kubernetes/how-to-configure-karpenter-for-scalable-cost-efficient-eks-clusters/

Karpenter can save you money — but only if you teach it how.

27/10/2025

Last week, the internet collapsed into chaos when AWS went down. In this week's episode of theCronJob, Omer & Mark break down the implications of the outage and reevaluate the necessity of multicloud configurations.

Listen to the full story in episode 13 - link below:
https://zesty.co/resources/podcasts/

23/10/2025

How Wildflower cut Kubernetes costs by 50% and eliminated performance issues

Wildflower runs critical healthcare systems that have to stay reliable around the clock. For years, Kubernetes made that a challenge.

Without visibility into real workload behavior, pods were running out of memory, jobs were silently stopping for hours, resources were constantly being adjusted manually, and costs kept rising.

With Zesty Pod Rightsizing, Wildflower finally gained real-time and historical visibility into resource usage. CPU and memory requests are adjusted automatically, eliminating the need for guesswork and manual tuning.

Read the full story below to learn how Wildflower achieved:
✅ 50% reduction in Kubernetes costs
✅ No more performance issues
✅ Zero manual resource management

“Pod Rightsizing filled the missing piece that always frustrated me: knowing what resources workloads really need.” - Blake Mitchell, VP of Engineering at Wildflower

https://zesty.co/blog/how-to-cut-kubernetes-costs-with-automated-pod-rightsizing/

22/10/2025

What if AI could build your infrastructure perfectly?
Would it really be the end of cloud engineers?

Listen to the latest episode of theCronJob to hear the full list of Mark's and Omer's DevOps Hot Takes🎙️👇

In this episode of theCronJob podcast, hosts Omer and Mark engage in a lively discussion about various hot takes in the tech industry, focusing on Kubernetes, DevOps, AI, and multi-cloud strategies. They explore the effectiveness of horizontal pod...

30/09/2025

Kubernetes optimization changes all the time.
New technologies break well-established norms and keeping up with them is crucial for your environment's agility and efficiency. And that affects both your performance and your bill.

Listen to the latest episode of theCronJob for more insights:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2519787/episodes/17749794-episode-8-how-to-automate-pod-rightsizing

29/09/2025

When Kubernetes workloads need to connect to cloud services, the old approach was to embed static secrets into pods. That created serious risks and was difficult to manage at scale.

Pod Identity changes this by providing short-lived, automatically rotated credentials directly to pods.

In this article, Ilya Pisatzkov, Solution Architect, explains how Pod Identity works in AWS EKS, the differences between IRSA and the newer EKS Pod Identity.

Read the full article here → https://zesty.co/finops-academy/kubernetes/how-to-secure-kubernetes-workloads-using-pod-identity/

25/09/2025

⚖️ Think your Kubernetes apps are truly rightsized?

Hint: If you’re only tuning CPU with HPA, you’re missing most of the story.

In this guide, we walk through how to rightsize applications step by step:
✅ Set safe minimum replicas
✅ Configure scaling metrics beyond CPU
✅ Tune pod requests and limits
✅ Identify hidden bottlenecks like disk, network, and dependencies

Stop overspending. Start scaling smart.

👉 Read the full guide:
https://zesty.co/finops-academy/kubernetes/how-to-rightsize-applications-on-kubernetes-the-right-way/

23/09/2025

Are your Kubernetes apps really rightsized, or just CPU-tweaked?
Our latest guide walks through a practical step-by-step process to align resources with reality — from minReplicas to scaling policies to pod requests and limits.

Check it out here: https://zesty.co/finops-academy/kubernetes/how-to-rightsize-applications-on-kubernetes-the-right-way/