Tencent Cloud, together with China Academy of Information and Communications Technology & Operation Gang, first released the "Source of Cost Reduction-Cloud Native Cost Management White Paper"

At the 2021 Tencent Digital Ecology Conference Cloud Native Session held on November 4, Tencent Cloud, together with China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and Job Gang, took the lead in releasing the "Source of Cost Reduction-Cloud Native Cost Management White Paper" (referred to as the white paper) in China. Based on Tencent Cloud’s largest Kubernetes practice experience in the industry, it systematically presents cloud native cost optimization methodology and best practice paths.

Zou Hui, General Manager of Tencent Cloud Container Products, said: “Kubernetes is the core of the cloud native technology stack. Tencent Cloud Native has entered a very mature stage after years of technology accumulation and many complex internal and external business tests of Tencent. TKE currently has the largest scale in China. Kubernetes cluster and the best Kubernetes cost optimization practice in the industry; TKE currently runs 9 million+ Pods and manages tens of millions of CPU cores; at the same time, we have applied cost optimization technology and CPU utilization in Tencent’s internal core business on a large scale. The highest increase was 3 times; outside of Tencent, 80% of Xiaohongshu's business was run on TKE, and the cost was reduced by 40%."

Dong Xiaocong, the person in charge of operation support infrastructure, said that cloud-native technologies such as containers and kubernetes have brought an opportunity for enterprises to reshape technology. Together with Tencent Cloud, we are working on performance optimization, scheduling enhancements, offline mixing, serverless kubernetes, and other aspects. After a lot of exploration and practice, we finally achieved good results. The benefits of containerization were significant. Before and after the containerization of the business, the cost dropped by 43%, the stability increased to 99.995%, and the interface response increased by 10%. Effectively supports the rapid iteration of homework assistance business.

Currently, more and more companies are embracing cloud computing, but as the use of cloud deepens, the problem of cloud resource waste has become more and more obvious. The white paper pointed out that elastic on-demand is the advantage of cloud native resource utilization, but if the resource allocation strategy is set unreasonably, resources may be wasted. In addition, if the measurement method of cloud-native resource utilization is not flexible enough, it will make it difficult for enterprises to accurately control the cost of using the cloud. Therefore, after applying the cloud-native architecture, enterprises need to consider how to manage, optimize and use cloud-native services to further enhance the digitalization of their business. Transformation effect.

Based on rich experience in mass application services, Tencent Cloud Native has mature resource optimization methodology both internally and externally. Internally, Tencent Cloud adopts a resource utilization maturity model to containerize the business through four stages, and finally achieve a utilization rate of 60 to 70%. Externally, Tencent Cloud has launched a container product "Cost Master" to assist companies in better cost management from three levels: cost insight, cost optimization, and cost operation.

According to reports, Cost Master has full link cost optimization capabilities, can accurately and intelligently conduct cost insights, discover resource waste in one minute, and provide 8 flexible strategy combinations to meet the flexible needs of any scenario, and the full-frame hybrid department is the industry The first hybrid product that supports CPU/GPU on the cloud, covering Tencent's tens of millions of core resources. The core capability, qGPU, is a GPU virtualization technology with strong isolation. This technology realizes the strong isolation of GPU computing power, video memory and faults for the first time in the industry. It supports fine segmentation and sharing of computing power and multi-priority mixing, and the GPU utilization rate is the highest. An increase of 230%.

"The Source of Cost Reduction-Cloud Native Cost Management White Paper" is based on the best practices of internal and external cloud native cost management, and combined with industry excellent cases, Tencent put forward a systematic cloud native cost optimization methodology and best practice path. It aims to help enterprises improve the cost of using cloud and give full play to the efficiency and value of cloud native.

In addition, in the white paper, through detailed interviews with dozens of customers, Tencent Cloud learned about the key issues in the actual cost management of the company, and based on the status and challenges of resource utilization, sorted out the "cost insights" used by the company. , "Cost optimization", "Cost operation" three-stage cloud native cost management model.

Cost insight means that the team needs to define consistent tags and namespaces to improve allocation. Visual analysis of resources and costs based on multiple dimensions (such as cloud products, environment, business lines) can help the team effectively establish a corresponding accountability mechanism. And quickly formulate optimization plans and measures based on the real-time data obtained.

Cost optimization is the adjustment of the specifications and quantity of cloud resources. It also includes the optimization of the business structure and the improvement of resource utilization by means such as flexibility and resource mixing. The main solutions include: setting appropriate resource requests, solving the problem of resource fragmentation through dynamic scheduling, and increasing the packing rate. Use elasticity and mixing to achieve on-demand use; for fixed resource pools, mix online applications and offline applications with peak load at different periods of time to achieve time-sharing multiplexing; for GPU resources, achieve resource pooling and shared.

Cost operation is to encourage companies to build a cost operation system in terms of organization, culture, process, etc., and continuously adjust and optimize them according to their goals. Specific plans include: establishing a cost optimization team, promoting cost optimization awareness, data-driven cost optimization, investigating costs in the process, and quantifying the business value of cost optimization delivery.

The white paper revolves around this model and provides best practices for cost management based on the actual landing situation of enterprises, helping enterprises to take into account cost optimization when they go to the cloud and cloud-native transformation, and help digital transformation.

In addition, the white paper also included more than 10 corporate cost reduction practices within and outside Tencent. The cost challenges and cost reduction practices encountered by enterprises or businesses such as Jobbank, Yunji, QQ Browser, and Tencent Advertising will be presented in an all-round way, providing a detailed reference for other enterprises to reduce the burden of operation and maintenance.

In addition to the "Cloud Native Cost Management White Paper", in response to the security problems of containers, Tencent Cloud Container Service TKE also jointly released the "Tencent Cloud Container Security White Paper" in conjunction with Tencent Security Cloud Ding Lab. The white paper conducted in-depth investigations and visits to Tencent Cloud container users, combined with long-term container security operation practices, combed and analyzed the security threats and challenges faced by the container environment in detail, and introduced Tencent Cloud's cloud-native container security construction The above ideas, solutions, and practices hope to jointly promote the development of cloud-native security in this way. This is also the first large-scale analysis and summary of the current situation of container environment security in China.

According to reports, Tencent Cloud has been committed to providing users with more comprehensive, stable and secure cloud-native services in the cloud-native field. At the beginning of the design and implementation of cloud-native products, security design and considerations are fully integrated, so that cloud-native systems naturally have security features, making security a basic capability like computing, storage, and networking, and helping users realize application systems The cloud is native and continues to ensure its safe and stable operation.

For more details, please click on the [Tencent Cloud Native] official account to reply to the "White Paper" and download the "Source of Cost Reduction-Cloud Native Cost Management White Paper" for understanding.

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