On March 5, 2026, we’re updating the OpenCost community meeting schedule so that contributors and users in the Americas, Europe/Middle East/Asia (EMEA) , and Asia-Pacific (APAC) can all join at a reasonable time. Here’s what’s changing and how to join.
The OpenCost project has had a fruitful year in terms of releases, our wonderful mentees and contributors, and fun gatherings at KubeCons.
The OpenCost team will be at KubeCon Atlanta 2025 with talks and activities November 10-13, 2025!
The OpenCost project proudly announces that we’ve reached CNCF Incubating status! This milestone in our journey underscores the significant dedication the project has received from the community that contributes to OpenCost. We’d like to thank the developers, Kubernetes practitioners, and FinOps teams from organizations across the globe that continue to make this project meaningful.
Reposted from the Headlamp blog post: Streamlining Kubernetes Cost Management with the New OpenCost Plugin for Headlamp, by Santhosh Nagaraj
Headlamp is an open source Kubernetes UI that focuses on usability and can be extended via plugins. It is available as a web or desktop application. Learn more about it at headlamp.dev.
OpenCost is one of CNCF's leading open-source projects that offers real-time native cost monitoring for Kubernetes environments, providing visibility to developers and companies on the costs linked to their cloud-native applications. With OpenCost, one can trace the costs of single workloads, namespaces, and even particular labels in your Kubernetes cluster. The continuous granular cost visibility that OpenCost provides help in effectual usage of resources and better budgeting.
Reposted from the Oracle Developers series by Ali Mukadam: Announcing OpenCost support for OCI
It’s a fact now that Kubernetes has won the container wars. It has fought off Docker, Mesos, OpenStack and a number of other clustering and orchestration technologies to become the de-facto Cloud Operating System. Heck, Kubernetes has even made it to F-16s. You say Maverick is an ace? He’s got nothing on those F-16s pilots who are able to fly a cloud within clouds at Mach 2. I’m jealous of those pilots.
The CNCF OpenCost project is increasing its scope to help environmental sustainability within the tech industry by introducing carbon cost emissions tracking across Kubernetes and cloud spend. This initiative comes as a response to the recognition of the growing environmental impact associated with cloud computing. By integrating carbon cost tracking into its framework, OpenCost aims to empower organizations to make informed decisions about their technology usage, taking into account not only the financial expenses but also the environmental impact.
Kubecost joined efforts with ThoughtWorks and their open source Cloud Carbon Footprint tool to bring resource-level carbon footprint monitoring data into OpenCost.
KubeCon Europe 2024 is coming up next week in Paris March 19-22 and we're looking forward to all the OpenCost news and events!
Reposted from the Port blog: Port & OpenCost: Bringing open source cost monitoring for cloud native environments to developers
Port officially integrates with OpenCost. This brings together OpenCost data and Port’s internal developer portal, providing developers with the autonomy to understand and manage the cost associated with their work as well as providing managers with alerts, scorecards and initiatives that make it much easier to control costs.
OpenCost 1.109.0 is now available and has a host of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. This release has over 200 commits from 24 individuals and 8 of them are from first-time contributors. This is also the first release with a non-Kubecost Maintainer. Highlights from the release include:
There were many more community-provided enhancements, fixes, and additional tests that were added to continue improving OpenCost. Please join us in the OpenCost community and help build our next great release!
