Implementing Platform Cost Management with OpenCost
Deploy OpenCost in a Kubernetes cluster and gain visibility into workload costs across namespaces and teams.
Lab Overview
This hands-on lab teaches you to implement cost management and visibility for your Kubernetes platform using OpenCost.
You'll learn to:
- Deploy OpenCost using Helm in a Kubernetes cluster with Prometheus
- Configure cost allocation by namespace and custom labels for team attribution
- Analyze workload costs using the OpenCost API and CLI
- Create cost visibility dashboards in Grafana for platform stakeholders
- Understand cost optimization opportunities through resource analysis
Cost visibility is essential for platform engineering teams to provide chargeback/showback capabilities and optimize resource usage across the organization.
What You'll Learn
Deploy OpenCost with Prometheus integration
Configure cost allocation using namespaces and labels
Query cost data using OpenCost API
Build cost visibility dashboards in Grafana
Prerequisites
kubernetes-fundamentals
prometheus-basics
helm-basics
Technologies Covered
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This lab is part of the Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineer (CNPE) course
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