Conclusion
We showed how to use the Cost Management service for OpenShift to track the real platform costs incurred by business departments across a hypothetical enterprise, and download reports that can be used by a platform or accounting team, perhaps to recover costs.
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Cost Tracking Across Differing Infrastructures
Some of Red Hat’s customers, particularly those who operate in regulated industries, run several OCP clusters across several providers: e.g.
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or on-premises.
They need to have a unified way of measuring usage and cost, whilst still taking into consideration any individual platform’s charging rates when building the.
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How do I set up cost management?
To set up Cost Management, the platform administrator will install the Cost Management operator on his cluster (s).
After that, the cluster will show up in the Red Hat cloud console.
The Red Hat cloud console has a web interface, and also an API to allow access to raw numbers and reports.
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How Does Cost Management Address Our Use Cases?
Each cluster is assigned a cost model to map metrics and bill information to costs.
By default the software extracts information from the underlying cloud providers’ costs.
For on-premises systems, custom cost models can be created, based on factors such as CPU and memory.
These models can be augmented with custom markups for any overhead (for exam.
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Next Steps
Setting up Cost Management for Red Hat OpenShift is a simple operation, requiring minimal information.
We suggest that you start with a simple use case - by building a small proof of concept, you can see the sorts of information that the system can reflect, and what sort of granularity this can be provided at.
Once that’s done, you can build a taxo.
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OpenShift Environment Setup
We’ve set up an example cluster to report data to the Cost Management service for Red Hat OpenShift.
We followed the instructions in the product documentation here:.
1) Adding an OpenShift Container Platform source to cost management.
2) Setting up a cost model for the Cost Management Service We’ve created two projects to demonstrate per-department b.
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Per-Department Billing
OpenShift clusters are generally multi-tenant - that is, they host multiple applications from multiple teams.
That makes sense, as this really is one of the sweet spots of containers and container orchestration.
As clusters are scaled up, we find that our customers often consolidate applications from lots of different locations into these clusters..
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What is cost management for Red Hat OpenShift?
Cost management for Red Hat OpenShift provides IT and financial stakeholders a unique view into the costs associated with applications running on Red Hat OpenShift on-premise, or on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform public clouds.
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What Is The Cost Management Service For Red Hat Openshift?
The Cost Management service for Red Hat OpenShift (henceforth referred to as Cost Management) allows monitoring of workloads on cloud providers.
It is based on the open source Project Koku, and supports, among other capabilities, breaking down the costs of running a container platform, and the workload upon it.
This is provided as a software as a s.
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What is the difference between OCP and OpenShift?
Cross-cloud provider billing:
some enterprises run multiple OCP clusters across cloud providers so varied cost models are needed along with the ability to combine information sources into a single view.
OpenShift clusters are generally multi-tenant - that is, they host multiple applications from multiple teams. ,
Why do customers use OpenShift?
This allows them to distribute those costs accurately and fairly.
Customers who are adopting OpenShift will frequently run software on their clusters that has commercial terms attached.
