Product Manager at Kubecost

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Kubecost Launches Support for Oracle Cloud

We are excited to announce that Kubecost’s 2.4 release contains our beta launch of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cost monitoring — making it easier than ever to monitor, report, and wrangle your Oracle Cloud Kubernetes spend. This is another big step for our users and teams looking to monitor all of their Kubernetes and infrastructure costs in Kubecost.

Kubecost has extended our industry-leading Kubernetes cost monitoring to OKE allowing you to dive deep into your Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) workload and infrastructure costs. To start, the Kubecost ‘Allocations’ page allows you to see the real-time costs associated with all of your Kubernetes workloads - from OKE to EKS and on-prem - on a single pane of glass. Kubecost provides these Kubernetes costs all the way down to the container level enabling you to filter and aggregate your workload costs however you like to build showback or chargeback reports for your business units.

In addition to providing you visibility into your OKE spend, users now have a single pane of glass where they can view their OCI costs right alongside their AWS, GCP, and Azure. This dashboard is free to all users and fully FOCUS specification compliant so you can easily navigate costs across all of your spend with a consistent set of aggregation and filter options - providing a powerful experience for any FinOps user.

Cloud Cost Explorer

And this is all just the start! If you’re ready to move beyond just monitoring your OCI spend, Kubecost has you covered by providing you insights and automation to make your OKE clusters and workloads more efficient to optimize spending and reduce waste. For example, Kubecost provides recommendations for right-sizing your container requests as shown in the image below. Users can choose to update the container requests themselves to save money, or run the Kubecost Action for container right-sizing to automatically right-size your container requests.

Container Right-Sizing Reccomendations

You can also easily set up budgets or alerts to govern spending for a given team or business unit to ensure that your spending remains optimized. These controls are key to wrangling your OCI and OKE spend as it’s critical that you catch any spending overruns or anomalies quickly so that you can remediate them before racking up a large bill.

If you’re trying to monitor or wrangle your Oracle Cloud spend, set up your billing integration to Kubecost today. If you’re new to Kubecost, get started today by simply copying and pasting the helm command below!

helm install kubecost cost-analyzer \
--repo https://kubecost.github.io/cost-analyzer/ \
--namespace kubecost --create-namespace \
--set kubecostToken="c3lsdmlhbWVhdGJhbGxAZ21haWwuY29txm343yadf98"

FAQ

Is this the beta launch of Kubecost’s OCI integration?
Yes, the Kubecost 2.4 release is the ‘beta’ launch of our OCI integration. We expect to have the general availability (GA) launch of our OCI integration in the near future.

Can I try this new OCI functionality out for myself?
Yes! This new functionality is available for free to all users on clusters up to 250 cores. Simply install Kubecost and then configure your OCI billing integration to get started.

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