Container Service for Kubernetes:Enable the cost analysis feature

Cost dimensions

After you enable cost insights, you can analyze costs by:

• Cluster

• Namespace

• Node pool

• Application (Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet, Job, CronJob)

Billing

Enable cost insights

1. Log on to the Container Service Management Console . In the navigation pane on the left, click Clusters.

2. On the Clusters page, click the name of your cluster. In the navigation pane on the left, click Cost Suite > Cost Insights.

3. Authorize your cluster to access billing data.

   The authorization process differs by cluster type:

   1. Grant permission to access billing data

      • ACK managed clusters

        The system automatically grants the required permissions and creates the AliyunCSManagedCostRole Resource Access Management (RAM) role. Managed Service for Prometheus assumes this role to access your billing data in Expenses and Costs.

        Alternatively, authorize directly from the RAM Quick Authorization page.

      • ACK dedicated clusters

        Manually add billing permissions to the worker role policy:

        View the authorization steps

        1. On the Cost Insights page, click KubernetesWorkerRole-***.

        2. On the Permissions tab, click k8sWorkerRole**** in the Policy column.

        3. On the Policy Document tab, click Edit Policy Document.

        4. Add the following statements to the Statement array, then click OK.

           {
               "Action": [
                   "bssapi:QueryInstanceBill",
                   "bssapi:DescribeInstanceBill"
               ],
               "Resource": "*",
               "Effect": "Allow"
           },
           {
               "Action": [
                   "ecs:DescribeDisks",
                   "ecs:DescribeSpotPriceHistory",
                   "ecs:DescribeInstances",
                   "ecs:DescribePrice"
               ],
               "Resource": "*",
               "Effect": "Allow"
           },
           {
               "Action": [
                   "eci:DescribeContainerGroupPrice"
               ],
               "Resource": "*",
               "Effect": "Allow"
           }

           Note

           Separate each statement with a comma when adding multiple entries.

   2. Install the ack-cost-exporter component by following the on-screen instructions.

      After installation, the page redirects to Cost Insights automatically.

Disable cost insights

To stop collecting cost metrics, uninstall the ack-cost-exporter component:

1. Log on to the Container Service Management Console . In the navigation pane on the left, click Clusters.

2. On the Clusters page, click the name of your cluster. In the navigation pane on the left, click Add-ons.

3. On the Add-ons page, find ack-cost-exporter and click Uninstall. In the confirmation dialog, click OK.

FAQ

# Delete the Deployment and Services
kubectl delete deployment ack-cost-exporter -n kube-system
kubectl delete service alibaba-cloud-price-exporter -n kube-system
kubectl delete service alibaba-cloud-billing-exporter -n kube-system
kubectl delete service alibaba-cloud-cost-exporter -n kube-system

# Delete ServiceMonitors
kubectl delete ServiceMonitor alibaba-cloud-price-exporter -n kube-system
kubectl delete ServiceMonitor alibaba-cloud-billing-exporter -n kube-system
kubectl delete ServiceMonitor alibaba-cloud-cost-exporter -n kube-system

# Delete RBAC resources
kubectl delete ClusterRoleBinding ack-cost-exporter-cluster-role-binding
kubectl delete ClusterRoleBinding ack-cost-exporter-cluster-role-binding-v1
kubectl delete ServiceAccount ack-cost-exporter -n kube-system
kubectl delete ClusterRole ack-cost-exporter-cluster-role