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Holiday Special|December 25, 2024|8 min read

The 12 Days ofKubernetes Savings

This holiday season, give your cloud bill the gift it really wants: optimization. Unwrap 12 kubectl commands that save real money, from right-sizing pods to spot instances.

0/12 unwrapped
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$0/year
in potential savings
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Day 1
~$200/mo

A Pod With Right-Sized Limits

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Day 2
~$40/mo

Two Terminated LoadBalancers

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Day 3
~$30/mo

Three Freed PVCs

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Day 4
~$100/mo

Four Deleted Namespaces

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Day 5
~$150/mo

Five Golden Replicas (Reduced to Three)

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Day 6
~$300/mo

Six Staging Clusters Sleeping

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Day 7
~$20/mo

Seven Jobs A-Completed

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Day 8
~$250/mo

Eight CPU Cores Reclaimed

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Day 9
~$400/mo

Nine Nodes Right-Sized

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Day 10
~$0/mo

Ten Secrets Not Duplicated

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Day 11
~$500/mo

Eleven Spot Instances Running

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Day 12
Priceless

Twelve Months of Monitoring

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📊Your Holiday Savings Summary

Quick Wins (Days 1-4)
~$370/month
Pod right-sizing, orphaned resources
Infrastructure Wins (Days 5-8)
~$720/month
Replicas, staging, CPU reclamation
Strategic Wins (Days 9-11)
~$900/month
Right-sized nodes, spot instances
Day 12: Continuous Monitoring
Compounds Monthly
Catch waste before it accumulates
Potential Annual Savings
$23,880/year
Time to Implement
4-6 hours
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Bonus Gift: The Automatic Audit

Don't have time to run all 12 commands? Get an instant audit that finds everything on this list (and more) in under 60 seconds.

curl -sL wozz.io/audit.sh | bash

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Wishing you a holiday season full of uptime, merged PRs, and optimized clusters.

Happy holidays from the Wozz team!