Your shared Kubernetes cluster costs $80k/month. Which team owes what? If your answer is 'I don't know,' you have a finops problem that's about to become a political problem.
Here's how to do cost attribution without starting a war.
The levels of attribution
Level 0: No attribution. Infra budget is infrastructure's problem. Teams spend freely. This works at <50 engineers. Above that, waste explodes.
Level 1: Tag everything. Every resource gets a team tag. Sum up monthly spend per tag. Show teams their numbers. No charges yet.
