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Nutanix NKP and Densify Kubex: AI-Driven K8s Resource Optimization

Cost-effective Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes infrastructure

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Challenges

Kubernetes has transformed cloud-native infrastructure, enabling enterprises to build scalable, agile environments. But despite its benefits, Kubernetes has become more and more difficult to optimize resources, resulting in higher operational costs.

Excess spend is common and is caused by incorrectly specified container resources, which strands tremendous amounts of resources and introduces significant operational risk. Unfortunately, existing cloud management tooling is incapable of fixing it.

Solution

The Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) simplifies platform engineering by reducing operational complexity and establishing consistency across any environment. When combined with Kubex from Densify, you gain the benefits of AI-driven resource optimization and control. Kubex applies automation, governance and risk mitigation for the best possible performance at lower cost.

Utilizing the proper requests and limits and implementing that to fully automate whenever a container has been built and deployed has been a game changer for us.

Vladimir Remenar, Director of IT Operations, Raiffeisen Bank

Use Cases

Solution

Benefits

Cost Optimization

Automatically determine the best resource specifications for every container, then optimize the type and size of every node and scale group.

Safely reduce the cost of Kubernetes infrastructure from 30-60%.

Improve the performance and reliability of Kubernetes environments.

Risk Reduction

While optimizing, detect unseen risk and instability like out-of-memory (OOM) kills and other undetected resource-related problems.

Improve the performance and reliability of Kubernetes Infrastructure.

Automated Capacity Control

Automate the analytics and optimization changes that keep environments running cost effectively.

Reduce the time and attention required to maintain a healthy cost-effective infrastructure.

Precise Recommendations
Node Balance and Saturation Analytics
Sharable Container “Home Page”

How it Works

Kubex sifts through mountains of data to uncover and address Kubernetes inefficiencies while delivering analytics and actionable recommendations. Key features include:

  • Enhanced analysis: Gain deep insights into resource risks, inefficiencies and waste across nodes, containers and scale groups.
  • Cost transparency: Quantify the fiscal impact of optimization actions with integrated cloud billing data.
  • Intuitive user experience: Navigate recommendations, validate changes and prioritize optimizations in just a few clicks.

At the heart of these capabilities is the ability to identify realizable gains and actions that improve efficiency, performance and stability without negatively impacting other components.

By identifying actions that should be avoided and removing them from the prioritized recommendations, organizations can avoid costly mistakes and stop wasting time on changes that have no real impact.

For example, Kubex performs constant analysis of node utilization to identify saturation points, imbalances and resource constraints that can cause risk. This enables it to de-prioritize any actions that could worsen that risk or are simply a waste of time.

By cutting through the complexity, Kubex empowers teams to focus on what truly matters. Kubex is SaaS-based and requires only a Prometheus-based forwarder to enable its advanced analytics.

Ready to activate your content?

Identify the potential opportunities for improvement in your infrastructure with a free Kubex test trial. Assisted by a Densify expert, your trial is a rapid, no impact, read-only approach to assessing the current state of your infrastructure and quantifies the advantages of taking its recommended actions.

Request your free trial today at https://www.densify.com/product/trial/

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