---
title: "Cost Management"
description: "Policies for controlling Kubernetes resource costs. Enforce resource requests and limits, restrict expensive instance types, prevent runaway scaling, and block unnecessary services."
diataxis: reference
applies_to:
  product: "kyverno"
audience: ["platform-engineer","devsecops"]
last_updated: 2026-03-25
url: https://docs.nirmata.io/docs/policy-sets/cost-management/
---


Kyverno policies for controlling cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure costs.

## What's Covered

- **Resource quotas** — Require CPU and memory requests/limits on all workloads
- **Instance type restrictions** — Block expensive GPU or high-memory node selectors
- **HPA guardrails** — Cap maximum replica counts to prevent runaway scaling
- **Service restrictions** — Disallow LoadBalancer services without approval
- **Namespace budgets** — Enforce LimitRange and ResourceQuota on namespaces

All cost management policies are available in the [Nirmata policy library on GitHub](https://github.com/nirmata/kyverno-policies/tree/main/cost-management).