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Team,
We have a service hosted as a container inside AKS and it is accessible only through my organization. Now there are multiple teams of different verticals are using that API to get some data.
Whenever we make a call from my organization network to the AKS then ingress(nginx) logs only common organisation IP in every request. This is obvious because every organization has NAT registered in such a way.
Due to this issue, I'm unable to trace that which client is consuming how many resources hence difficulty in making a final cost balance sheet per client. The amount of key vault or container registry can still be considered as fixed. In addition, it could have been possible for azure bandwidth as well because I know the size of my payload but problem again arise while tracing the count of calls made by a specific client. So, confusion is there while calculating the chargeback for RAM or CPU consumed in AKS, Standard load balancer and Azure bandwidth.
Can you suggest few approaches using which I can setup the service in such a way that I can calculate the cost per client consuming the resources.
I would really appreciate if you share your valuable suggestion on the same.
Thank you
@Tanul Firstly, apologies for the delay in responding on this and any inconvenience this issue may have caused.
I am checking into it internally and will keep you posted on thread.
Thanks
@prmanhas-MSFT , Hey preeti, hope you're doing well. If you get chance requesting you to evaluate this kubecost application posted as the answer here. Does microsoft offer any functionality like this. If available, please share the link.
Thank you. Tk cr.
@Tanul The below recommendation is by one of my colleague who is from our internal team I reached out to.
You can go as per his recommendation and can make use of the tool for cost analysis.
Hope it helps :) !!!
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@prmanhas-MSFT , @Michael , Thanks preeti and michael for helping here. I’m only left with segregating the cost of load balancer and azure bandwidth. I’ll do one thing, on the basis of cost calculated from namespaces I’ll calculate the chargeback like on pro data basis w.r.t. bandwidth and LB.
THANKS A LOT FOR HELPING 😊
@Tanul Glad that we were of help to yo :)
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The common tool customers use right now is https://github.com/kubecost. That will allow you to segment cost from E2E within a Kubernetes Cluster.
@Michael , Hello, thanks for sharing this. I have checked kubecost videos on youtube and found it nice as it is giving cost per namespace. So for each client I can make a separate namespace.
But, is this software production ready and can be used in large size organization?
Is there anyway to calculate such segregated cost of azure bandwidth and load balancer?