For many teams, the first line of defense against rising infrastructure costs is automation, which reduces the time required to perform manual tasks and incrementally builds a more efficient Kubernetes infrastructure. Teams may also look to new cloud providers or tools to cut costs, but each additional layer adds complexity, leading to more work and unexpected complications down the road.
To reduce costs, teams need to take a closer look at their infrastructure.
This includes tackling:
- Cloud and licensing costs
- Management that demands hours of manual work
- Operational inefficiencies and toil
- Downtime that leads to business loss and added work
Talos Linux and Omni are designed to eliminate waste in your infrastructure, streamlining and simplifying work for your team until your monthly bill is a fraction of what it once was. We’ve seen companies cut costs by 90% by switching to Talos Linux. Here are some of the key ways we reduce your Kubernetes infrastructure costs.
How We Save You Money
Talos Linux and Omni enable teams to build an infrastructure that is inherently efficient, simple, and easy to manage. Talos Linux provides you with a foundation that is free from bloat and complex automation, while Omni is the enterprise-grade Kubernetes management interface that makes your infrastructure as simple as a managed Kubernetes solution, with one-click cluster creation and easy upgrades. Together, they have helped teams across industries build more manageable, more affordable infrastructures. Here’s how.
Reduce Recurring Costs
Sidero was founded on a philosophy of simplicity, and our pricing reflects that. We provide you with affordable access to great infrastructure. Talos Linux is fully open source, and Omni plans cost 75-90% less than popular alternatives.
Plus, we charge on a per-node basis rather than vCPU count or hardware configuration, providing clarity over what you’re paying for. Consider this:
- You have a massive worker node with 192 cores. Your current Kubernetes platform charges based on resources. Your current Kubernetes platform charges based on resources. Because you have a very dense node, they quote you a rate of $45k per node per year just to manage the node. With 10 nodes, that leaves you with a $450k bill.
- With Sidero, one node is always licensed as one node, and the maximum you would ever pay for Omni is $1k per year per node. For 10 nodes, you would pay a maximum of $12k per year.
Per-node pricing provides our users with clarity over their software licensing costs. There’s no need to get out a calculator or memorize tables about what costs what. You pay per node, every time.
These savings continue at the edge. Edge runs on light resources, and our edge licensing model has been tailored to benefit low-resource machines. Talos Linux is able to run on systems with as little as 1-2GB of memory and 10GB of disk space, compared to other solutions that can require 8GB+ of memory and 120GB+ of disk space. These differences can make a noticeable impact on your hardware costs.
Toil Less with SaaS-Simple Management
Kubernetes cluster management can be exhausting. We understand how easy it is to get burnt out as unnecessary toil is demotivating, tiring, and time-consuming. On top of this, personnel costs are often the most expensive part of a tech team, and every hour a technologist spends on upgrades and cluster management is time not spent on work that could be creating value. For a Kubernetes developer earning $150k per year, five hours per week on Kubernetes maintenance will cost nearly $19k. That’s one developer’s worth of work.
Omni provides the “it just works” Kubernetes management experience, enabling enterprise Kubernetes across infrastructures of all sizes and giving time back to your team.
“Omni has made it simple for us to deploy new clusters, scale up or down, and lets us focus on our applications–not on Kubernetes.”
Gwendolyn James, Staff DevOps Engineer, Ursa Major
Omni eliminates repetitive tasks by providing a centralized UI for upgrades, package management, and service orchestration. We believe in simple automation, and that’s why Omni is designed to make daily work easy. It isn’t made to dazzle with complex features. You simply define the target state of your cluster, and Omni makes it happen securely and automatically. No need to SSH into hundreds of machines to run commands, then manually verify, reprovision, and address breaks. It reduces the workload of keeping infrastructure up and running, so your team can focus on the important things like product development.
Streamline Operations and Reduce Downtime
Complex operations make for complex work as teams must stay on top of tangled processes, leading to more work and increasing the possibility of errors. We put a stop to this by making your operations efficient and reliable from the ground up. Talos Linux and Omni make infrastructure management easy, reducing maintenance time by up to 66% and giving time back to technologists.
Talos Linux is immutable, with no SSH or shell. This minimizes configuration drift, encourages standardization, and reduces the chance for human error. It leads teams to build infrastructure rooted in efficiency rather than intricate automations. Talos Linux’s exceptionally small size also provides it with exceptional speed. While updating and validating Ubuntu with Kubernetes can take 30 minutes per node, updates with Talos Linux take one minute or less, so you get more done, faster. From initial deployment to reprovisioning, your team can move quickly. Talos Linux further increases reliability through its unique use of predictable read-only root filesystems, API for management, and controller-based internal system management. These reduce faults and increase availability, so you avoid losing business and working hours due to downtime.
Omni further extends the benefits of Talos Linux and changes the way your team manages Kubernetes. Omni replaces long, multi-step operations with an enterprise-grade interface. Now, processes that were once demanding and time-consuming, such as cluster setup, deployment, and management, are transformed into few-click processes. Simply define the target state of your clusters and Talos Linux and Omni make it happen.
“With just three developers, we built our API on top of Omni and had the operational cluster up and running quickly. If we had not used Omni, it would have delayed our platform by a year,” says a team member at Ubisoft.
Stay Flexible and Avoid Cloud Provider Lock-In
Cloud has become so expensive that it is often the second-highest infrastructure cost. Efforts to control these costs may start with vendor comparison, but they are most successful when the infrastructure and its management are fully modernized.
Talos Linux and Omni are not cloud-first. Instead, they’re built for flexible, hybrid environments, supporting infrastructure that spans cloud providers, bare metal, edge, and data centers as well as clusters split across environments. This flexibility provides the foundation to transform the way your infrastructure runs and replace “cloud-first” with fully hybrid. We’re strong believers in the power of hybrid and have seen clients across numerous industries cut costs by embracing multi-location setups. Running on bare metal and bursting to cloud is a popular option that provides a positive Return on Investment within months or quarters.