Federal agencies adopt Kubernetes for agility and scale as they manage containerized applications, but shared, multi-tenant clusters make it hard to see who spent what, and why. And in dynamic clusters, each team’s safety buffer compounds into agency-wide over-allocation and low utilization, driving budget leakage and after-the-fact surprises.

As these patterns play out across shared clusters, another barrier emerges: visibility. Cloud billing typically stops at the cluster or node, and without consistent labeling and ownership, costs become orphaned. That makes it difficult to attribute spend to teams, roll up by mission, program, and task order, or pass audits.

Download this issue brief to learn how federal agencies can regain control of Kubernetes costs – securely and at scale.