Kubernetes cost governance policies are the guardrails that stop waste before it reaches production: ResourceQuotas cap what a namespace can consume, LimitRanges set sane defaults, and admission policies (OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno) block configurations that would over-provision. They turn cost discipline from a cleanup job into a prevention layer. The post Kubernetes Cost Governance: Policies That Stop Waste Before It Ships appeared first on Cast AI .