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Building Open-source cost monitoring for Kubernates

Posted by anuragvishwa on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @02:31AM
from the self-post dept.
We are building open source cost monitoring / visibility for Kubernates on top of Opencost. - It would work for all 3 major clouds (AWS,Azure,GCP). - It would have cost visibility of almost all the types which are required by a team (Namespace, Container, Pods, Network , Cluster level). - It would support multiple clusters. - It would get installed with 1 command. - It would also provide VPA recommendations for cost savings and bin packaging. - It would have alerts generation and connecting to various platform (Slack, email, discord etc.) - It would have feature to generate report and send it to connected platform. - It is a layer built on top of Opencost with near UI/UX for getting cost insights . What would be your suggestions and feedback about this product. It would be open source, would you like to use it.
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Re:Building Open-source cost monitoring for Kubernates by uaas on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @02:53AM (#38779955)
My feedback/suggestions based on this summary: call it Kubernetes, and make it clearer how it is different from existing tools.
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Re:Building Open-source cost monitoring for Kubernates by anuragvishwa on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:06AM (#38780024)
With comparison to say Kubecost , the product will have - - Muticluster visibility in the single dashboard (for Kubecost , muticluster is enterprise ). - The application would also contain apart from monitoring Autoscaling and bin packing ( based on VPA recommendation for each application and providing a window to automatically adjust it). - Smart cost optimization : Tools like Karpenter(AWS) would be used to quickly get the alternatives to On-Demand instances and providing spot instances for them. - Better UX - The UX would be our top priority with 5 min, setup , maybe with a helm package. - Automated rightsizing : Based on the VPA recommendation .

These are the basic points i could ponder on for the application. 1. The monitoring part would be open-source and free for multi clusters. 2. Report generation and alert management to (Slack,email etc) open-source. 2. The autoscaling part/Bin packaging/Node autoscaling/Spot instances would be enterprise features.

Would love to know your insights and feedback . Thanks for going through the context.

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Re:Building Open-source cost monitoring for Kubernates by uaas on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:28AM (#38780119)
I would start with Helm from day 1, given its (and GitOps movement’s) popularity.

I don’t really see any benefit to have a “single command” install in the ops world. The e.g. Helm equivalent is also a one-liner, and most other artisan CLIs and similar solutions are not production ready implementations, which is something I would want from any tool in this space.

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Re:Building Open-source cost monitoring for Kubernates by anuragvishwa on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @05:56AM (#38780820)
Sorry for the confusion, but by single command , i meant to say single Helm command!
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Re:Building Open-source cost monitoring for Kubernates by myid126 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @02:37AM (#38779878)
i'm interested, could you show your project,please.
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Re:Building Open-source cost monitoring for Kubernates by anuragvishwa on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @02:49AM (#38779932)
It is build in progress, wanted to know the feedback/need of the product before launching. Nevertheless, it would get launched by Jan 30th 2024 .

The sample page would look like this - https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

I would keep posting the updates to the project here. Thanks for going through the context.

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Re:Building Open-source cost monitoring for Kubernates by gus_massa on Thursday December 28, 2023 @05:18AM (#38791980)
It's very difficult to get traction here until the project is launched (or at least you have a bunch of screenshots to show).
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Re:Building Open-source cost monitoring for Kubernates by gtirloni on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @05:42AM (#38780774)
That's basically OpenCost Enterprise.

https://www.opencost.io/enterprise

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Re:Building Open-source cost monitoring for Kubernates by anuragvishwa on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @05:56AM (#38780824)
With comparison to say Kubecost , the product will have - - Muticluster visibility in the single dashboard (for Kubecost , muticluster is enterprise ). - The application would also contain apart from monitoring Autoscaling and bin packing ( based on VPA recommendation for each application and providing a window to automatically adjust it). - Smart cost optimization : Tools like Karpenter(AWS) would be used to quickly get the alternatives to On-Demand instances and providing spot instances for them. - Better UX - The UX would be our top priority with 5 min, setup , maybe with a helm package. - Automated rightsizing : Based on the VPA recommendation . These are the basic points i could ponder on for the application. 1. The monitoring part would be open-source and free for multi clusters. 2. Report generation and alert management to (Slack,email etc) open-source. 2. The autoscaling part/Bin packaging/Node autoscaling/Spot instances would be enterprise features. Would love to know your insights and feedback . Thanks for going through the context
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