Rancher - Costs & resources optimisation

This Confluence page provides a comprehensive strategy for optimizing costs and resources for Rancher infrastructure. The strategy outlines key areas that can be optimized to improve performance and reduce infrastructure costs, including:

• AWS Availability Zones reduce: By reducing the number of availability zones used, we can lower infrastructure costs while maintaining high availability and fault tolerance.

• AWS EKS instance shapes and node types optimization: By optimizing instance shapes and node types, we can improve performance and reduce infrastructure costs by running workloads on the most efficient and cost-effective resources.

• AWS EKS version upgrade: By upgrading to the latest version of AWS EKS, we can take advantage of new features and enhancements, improve security and reliability, and reduce the overall cost of infrastructure.

• Shared AWS OpenSearch and MSK implementation: By implementing shared AWS OpenSearch and MSK resources, we can consolidate resources, reduce infrastructure costs, and improve performance.

This page serves as a guide for DevOps engineers and infrastructure teams who are looking to implement a comprehensive cost and resource optimization strategy for Rancher infrastructure. It provides an overview of each key area for optimization. By following the recommendations outlined on this page, teams can achieve significant cost savings while ensuring their infrastructure remains performant and secure.

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