Virtana announced a new Kubernetes strategy that will deliver container support across the full portfolio of Virtana Platform solutions.

This strategy will deliver actionable infrastructure insights for optimal performance, cost, and capacity of business applications.

The first deliverable of this strategy is a rightsizing feature for container environments through Virtana Platform's cloud cost optimization solution. With this capability, Virtana Platform users will have access to container rightsizing recommendations alongside ones for traditional compute — all within the Costs Savings Opportunities dashboard of Virtana Platform.

"There is a huge opportunity to unlock development speed, flexibility, and operational efficiency through container usage," said Jon Cyr, Head of Product for Virtana. "Yet many enterprises leveraging containers forget the basics of rightsizing and monitoring before and during development, leading to huge end of month bills and unnecessary cloud spend."

He continued: "Virtana's strategy is to address the challenges that arise through a customer's cloud native journey. We offer the unique ability to trace the entire data path from container to compute, network, and storage."

Virtana collects performance metrics from customers' container environments through the use of Prometheus, the leading open source monitoring tool for Kubernetes. Through Virtana Platform, the company then analyzes the metrics to provide insight and deliver prescriptive rightsizing recommendations for Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) containers. From these recommendations, users can tailor the default rightsizing based on constraints for CPU and memory, to meet specific business requirements and risk tolerance.

Key benefits of Virtana's cloud cost optimization Kubernetes feature:

- Rightsizes traditional compute and containers across multiple clouds in one tool

- Tune sizing based on organization's risk tolerance with what-if analysis that includes CPU and memory

- Automatically optimize instances with rightsizing recommendations

- Adjust to real-time changes in cloud service provider offerings to optimize cost structures

- Analyzes performance metrics using open source collection

This new Kubernetes optimization feature will be available for all Virtana Platform customers with a Pro license, with additional configuration.

Companies can try Virtana Platform's cloud cost management and optimization for free. Free trial accounts are able to access this Kubernetes feature and view a limited number of recommendations.