IBM Kubecost’s Kai Wombacher on Shifting FinOps Left to Control Kubernetes Costs

Guests: Kai Wombacher

Hosts: Mike Vizard

Category: Interviews

Date: September 10, 2025

Kai Wombacher, product manager for IBM Kubecost, explains why responsibility for FinOps needs to be shifted further left toward application developers and software engineers to have a meaningful impact on containing Kubernetes costs.

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