We are excited to announce that Cloudability’s Container Cost Insights have been extended to support ROSA. For several years Apptio customers have used these capabilities to map all of their Kubernetes (K8s) clusters across AWS, Azure, and GCP and to break apart the associated costs by Namespaces and Labels so that they can be charged back to the business. This full set of capabilities is now available for ROSA customers including:

•       The Container Cost Allocation feature to explore all clusters and visualise their costs across Namespaces and Labels.
•       Using Business Mapping to allocate and categorize these containerized costs alongside regular cloud costs.
•       Cluster Name, Namespace and Label dimensions are available in core reporting (reports/dashboards/TrueCost Explorer)
•       Rightsizing recommendations that can reduce waste and costs by setting the request and limit values to match the requirements of the underlying workload.

How to get started

The setup process for ingesting ROSA data into Cloudability follows the same basic steps as setting up K8s – you download a cloudability agent YAML file, which is then used within your cluster to provision the metrics agent.

Figure 1: Generating the YAML file with relevant OpenShift settings

Accessing the insights

The easiest way to start using the insights is within the Container Cost Allocation feature itself. Here you can list out your ROSA clusters alongside your Kubernetes clusters, gauge how much each one is costing and split these costs by Namespace or Label.

Figure 2: Exploring OpenShift cluster costs alongside Kubernetes costs

To integrate this information into your core cloud cost reporting why not try using the Cluster Name, Namespace and Label reporting dimensions in your favourite dashboard. Note that Labels need to first be mapped within Tag & Label mapping by a Cloudability admin.