Installing Kubecost on Alibaba
Kubecost installation is the same as other cloud providers with Helm v3.1+:
helm install kubecost/cost-analyzer -n kubecost -f values.yamlYour values.yaml files must contain the below parameters:
prometheus:
server:
global:
external_labels:
cluster_id: aliyun-ali-test-1 # Each cluster should have a unique ID
kubecostProductConfigs:
clusterName: "aliyun-ali-test-" # used for display in Kubecost UI
serviceKeySecretName: "alibaba-service-key"
The
alibaba-service-key can be created using the following command:kubectl create secret generic alibaba-service-key -n kubecost –from-file=./example_path
Your path needs a file having Alibaba Cloud secrets. Alibaba secrets can be passed in a JSON file with the file in the format:
{
"alibaba_access_key_id": “XXX”
"alibaba_secret_access_key": “XXX"
}
These two can be generated in the Alibaba Cloud portal. Hover over your user account icon, then select AccessKey Management. A new window opens. Select Create AccessKey to generate a unique access token that will be used for all activities related to Kubecost.
While getting all the available Storage Classes that the Alibaba K8s cluster comes with, there may not be a default storage class. Kubecost installation may fail as the cost-model pod and Prometheus server pod would be in a status pending state.
To fix this issue, make any of the Storage Classes in the Alibaba K8s cluster as Default using the below command:
kubectl patch storageclass alicloud-disk-available -p '{"metadata": {"annotations":{"storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class":"true"}}}'
Following this, installation should proceed as normal.
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