In an attempt to further its presence in the FinOps market, IBM is purchasing Kubecost, a prominent provider of Kubernetes cost optimization and optimization software.

According to the firm, the integration of Kubecost into IBM's FinOps solutions strengthens IBM's support for DevOps teams, FinOps teams, and the open-source community.

Kubecost gives the IBM FinOps Suite best-in-class container cost management, which comes after IBM's recent acquisition of Apptio in 2023.

No matter where their workloads are hosted, teams can inform, optimize, and manage their cloud investments with IBM's FinOps suite, which combines IBM Cloudability's FinOps capabilities with IBM Turbonomic's AI-automated Hybrid cloud performance enhancement integrations into a single solution.

In order to intelligently minimize spending and prevent over-provisioning in Kubernetes environments, as well as to comprehend infrastructure expenditure, Kubecost provides real-time price visibility and insights. FinOps teams can minimize cloud spend and avoid resource-based outages by getting an in-depth understanding of their workloads with integrated features into the Kubernetes & cloud billing APIs. Kubecost makes it simpler to get a deeper understanding of Kubernetes workload efficiency.

Kubecost is a San Francisco, California-based company that was founded in 2019. Webb Brown, the CEO, and Ajay Tripathy, the CTO, are the other co-founders.