// Abstract:

In this meetup, Arie discussed the following:

The importance of cost control while working with the cloud.

K8S, Data & Cost Control.

Hints/Tips around controlling your K8S costs.

// Bio:

Arie is a Cloud Solutions Engineer with over 10 years of experience. He has been a team leader and helped previous companies reduce their cloud costs through optimization strategies.  As a Solution Architect, Arie has been designing solutions which affect different areas like:

- Azure as a Disaster Recovery location

- Azure AD for Identity Management and SSO

- Azure Governance (Cost Control)

- Office 365 Integration

- OKTA Access/Identity Management

- Cloud Automation (IaC)

//Other links you can check Arie on:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/control-costs-your-azure-cloud-environment-save-part-van-den-bos/?trackingId=hfPo7ynCviKUngjsMeabiA%3D%3D

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/control-costs-your-azure-cloud-environment-save-part-van-den-bos-1f/?trackingId=hECZZjKdBa7lmE2rJf5leQ%3D%3D

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/control-costs-your-azure-cloud-environment-save-part-van-den-bos-2f/?trackingId=5xhIm3h2zS5NCtaOuwkApQ%3D%3D

// Final thoughts This will be a Fireside chat all audience can participate and ask questions, and you can also join the conversation beforehand in our slack group: https://go.dok.community/slack

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This meetup is sponsored by MayaData, which helped start the DOK.community and remains an active supporter. MayaData sponsors two Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, OpenEBS (http://www.openEBS.io) - the leading open-source container attached storage solution - and Litmus (https://litmuschaos.io/) - the leading Kubernetes native chaos engineering project, which was recently donated to the CNCF as a Sandbox project. As of August 2020, MayaData is the fifth-largest contributor to CNCF projects. Well-known users of MayaData software include the CNCF itself, Bloomberg, Comcast, Arista, Orange, Intuit, and others. Check out more info at https://mayadata.io/.