Ingress Examples

Enabling external access to the Kubecost UI requires exposing access to port 9090 on the kubecost-cost-analyzer service. There are multiple ways to do this, including Ingress or port-forwarding.

As of Kubecost 2.2, the frontend has an option for haMode which changes the service name that the ingress needs to target. When using the helm ingress template, the correct service is automatically set based on this flag.

Please exercise caution when exposing Kubecost via an ingress controller especially if there is no authentication in use. Consult your organization's internal security practices.

Common samples below and others can be found on our GitHub repository.

Helm ingress template

This is recommended unless you have specific needs that a typical ingress template do not address. The advantage to this method is that the service name is automatically configured.

An example of using the Helm ingress using cert-manager:

ingress:
  annotations:
    cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: letsencrypt-http
  className: nginx
  enabled: true
  hosts:
  - kubecost.your.com
  tls:
  - hosts:
    - kubecost.your.com
    # letsencrypt automatically creates the secret, just need to give it a name:
    secretName: kubecost-tls

NGINX Ingress Controller examples

The following example definitions use the NGINX Ingress Controller.

Basic auth example

# https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/examples/auth/basic/
apiVersion: v1
data:
  auth: Zm9vOiRhcHIxJE9GRzNYeWJwJGNrTDBGSERBa29YWUlsSDkuY3lzVDAK
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: basic-auth
  namespace: default
type: Opaque
---
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: kubecost-ingress-tls
  annotations:
    # type of authentication
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type: basic
    # name of the secret that contains the user/password definitions
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-secret: basic-auth
    # message to display with an appropriate context why the authentication is required
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-realm: 'Authentication Required - kubecost'
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  rules:
  - host: kubecost.your.com
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: kubecost-cost-analyzer
            port:
              number: 9090
  tls:
  - hosts:
      - kubecost.your.com
    secretName: kubecost-tls
    # Use any cert tool/cert-manager or create manually: kubectl create secret tls kubecost-tls --cert /etc/letsencrypt/live/kubecost.your.com/fullchain.pem --key /etc/letsencrypt/live/kubecost.your.com/privkey.pem

Here is a second basic auth example that uses a Kubernetes Secret.

Non-root path example

When deploying Grafana on a non-root URL, you also need to update your grafana.ini to reflect this. More info can be found in values.yaml.

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: kubecost-ingress
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/enable-cors: "true"
    # remove path prefix from requests before sending to kubecost-frontend
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$2
    # add trailing slash to requests of index
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/configuration-snippet: |
      rewrite ^(/kubecost)$ $1/ permanent;
spec:
  rules:
  - host: demo.kubecost.io
    http:
      paths:
      # serve kubecost from demo.kubecost.io/kubecost/
      - path: /kubecost(/|$)(.*)
        pathType: ImplementationSpecific
        backend:
          service:
            name: kubecost-cost-analyzer # should be configured if another helm name or service address is used
            port:
              number: 9090

ALB Example

Once an AWS Load Balancer (ALB) Controller is installed, you can use the following Ingress resource manifest pointed at the Kubecost cost-analyzer service:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: kubecost-alb-ingress
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: alb
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-type: ip
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/scheme: internet-facing
spec:
  rules:
    - http:
        paths:
        - path: /
          pathType: Prefix
          backend:
            service:
              name: kubecost-cost-analyzer
              port:
                number: 9090