The first open source framework for FinOps best practices

Adopting the finops model for an eco-friendly IT: this open source repository is aimed at all players in the digital world, and more particularly those confronted with pay-per-use and new public cloud practices. Decision-makers, managers, consultants, engineers, sys admins, product owners, business analysts, financial controllers and developers, this is yours!

To optimize your IT consumption, its environmental footprint and the value you get from your cloud services, you will need to adopt a finops approach. This repository is a live repository of good practices and will guide you towards a controlled, economical and sustainable it.

Initiated by

Organization & key roles

The implementation of finops practices in any organization relies on specific roles and competencies.

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The framework

Not all companies are at the same level of cloud adoption. The finops approach is therefore proposed in progressive stages of practice, depending on your current expertise and on your needs.

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FinOps best practices

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Level 1

Launch

Level 2

Foundation

Level 3

Generalization

Build

Expertise

Governance

Optimization

Run

Strategy

Assign the 2 first roles

Setting the tagging policy

Monitoring the effectiveness of the optimizations

Rightsizing instances and storage options Reserving instances Destruction of unused resources

Training and knowledge sharing

Finops model skills management Definition of objectives and kpis

Chargeback Reporting & Billing Definition of common language

SaaS / PaaS / IaaS eligibility process CSP/Regions Eligibility process Rationalizing Shared Services Automated tagging policy management

Anomalies alerting and detection Consumption measurements by application, typology and component Visualization of TCO per application

Stop/start/Destruction of resources Commitment management Storage rightsizing and data lifecycle management Continuous rightsizing

Experimentation, validation and generalization of innovations Studies of new technologies and solutions Identification of refactoring opportunities

Cost-Delay-Quality Decision Scenarios Management of business objectives, critical success factors and KPIs

Goal control Budgeting & Forecasting

Data backup policy Managing the resilience/cost balance Management of templates and architecture best practices

Benchmarking expenses Analysis of trends and variations

Network and flows optimization Supplier price management Overall spend optimization process

Expert community animations

Open Source

FinOps.World is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0.
This license allows you to adapt the framework according to your own experience.
If you want to join the movement and collaborate, please contact us at
contact@finops.world.

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