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Framework Overview

The FinOps Framework provides the operating model for how to establish and excel in the practice of FinOps. Like FinOps, the Framework is evolving and informed by community experiences, contributions, and conversations. It’s built by the community, for the community.

FinOps Domains

FinOps Domains represent a sphere of activities that every organization will perform during their FinOps journey. They are not exclusive to one another or represent process steps. In fact, multiple Domains may be pursued during any phase of an organization’s FinOps practice. Taken together, the FinOps Domains represent the Capabilities an organization must perform in the practice of FinOps.

FinOps Capabilities

Capabilities are the building blocks of a FinOps practice; you can combine as many or as few as needed depending on where you are in our FinOps journey and the needs of your organization. Individually, they represent functional areas of activity involving FinOps personas, tasks and/or processes you implement iteratively to meet your FinOps challenges.

FinOps Maturity Model

The FinOps Maturity Model designations are intended to identify where practitioners are currently operating across various concepts - without judgment - and empower practitioners to seek out opportunities for areas of potential investment. They're also used to give practitioners a sense of a benchmark for their performance as they grow their practices.

FinOps Personas

Implementing the FinOps Framework requires you to work together with the FinOps Personas in your organization. Operating within the FinOps Framework requires finding allies in times of change, defining a common language, building enablement strategies to elevate, and developing communication programs.

FinOps Phases

The FinOps Phases are: Inform, Optimize, and Operate. The Inform phase gives you the visibility for creating shared accountability. The Optimize phase is intended to identify efficiency opportunities and determine their value. The Operate phase defines and implements processes that achieve the goals of technology, finance, and business.

FinOps Principles

FinOps Principles are north stars that guide the activities of your FinOps practice. They’re developed by FinOps Foundation members, and honed through experience. Embracing these principles will help you to establish a self-governing, cost-conscious culture within your organization.

How to contribute

The open source FinOps Framework updates its definitions, guidance, and information based on the collective experience of  FinOps practitioners. These improvements come from Working Group outputs, Special Interest Group work, community discussions, and more.

Check out some of our Contribution Guidelines to learn how to tell your story or present FinOps best practices. You can also see active Working Groups, which are small groups that meet regularly to create and iterate on new best practices and guidance for FinOps practitioners.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I submit changes to the FinOps Framework?

If you see something that needs to be updated, augmented, or removed, we want to hear about it. This project is by the community and for the community and your voice matters.

There are multiple ways to submit changes:

  • Submit an update or let us know of an error via the "Make Suggestion" button (top-right corner of Framework pages)
  • Reach out to the members and team in the #framework slack channel

What is the review process?

Changes to each respective section of this site will be reviewed during FinOps Foundation team meetings, or meetings with the Technical Advisory Council. During these council meetings, commits and Pull Requests can be reviewed and voted upon to be merged.

The FinOps Foundation team uses automation tools to rebuild the site multiple times a week to capture the latest changes or to make small updates to maintain the site.

What are the review cycles and timings?

The FinOps Foundation’s core operating members maintain the organization as a business. Its technical components, however, must be reviewed and voted upon by a greater group of community members. These meetings are scheduled throughout the month and the timeliness of reviewing commits and changes will vary depending on when these meetings occur.

Issues and small changes like link fixes and typos might occur immediately, as those don’t require a significant amount of code review, voting, and/or approval.

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