From Idle Infrastructure to Elastic Capacity: Rethinking Kubernetes Scaling

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Most platform engineers are kept awake at night with some form of the same common complaint: the infrastructure bill does not align with what the infrastructure is really doing.

For example, a GPU node pool provisioned for a monthly batch job might sit idle, burning budget for 20+ days out of 30. Or perhaps a business builds a standby data center designed specifically to account for a potential major outage, but that sits idle doing nothing every other day. CI/CD runners wait listlessly for the next pipeline trigger: fully provisioned, fully billed, but mostly idle.