Creating a SKU Rate Card

SKU rate cards allow you to associate effective pricing adjustments with known infrastructure SKUs used in your Kubernetes environment—such as node types, storage classes, networking components, load balancers, and Kubernetes management services.

RealTheory applies the pricing adjustments you define for each SKU to provider pricing and uses the resulting effective rates to calculate and report accurate costs across all clusters and workloads.

SKU rate cards are useful when your effective pricing differs from standard cloud provider pricing, such as when negotiated discounts, committed use discounts, or other non-standard pricing agreements apply.

See Rate Cards Explained for more information about rate cards.

Prerequisite

To manage rate cards, you must have one of the following roles assigned to your user account:

*sys_admin
*rate_card_admin

Procedure

As a user with either the sys_admin or rate_card_admin role, navigate to Settings > Cost > Rate Cards.
Click Create New.
Select SKU.
Click Next.
Do one of the following:
- If you are creating a rate card for a cloud provider that is integrated with RealTheory, select the provider from the dropdown.
- If you are creating a rate card for an environment that is not integrated with RealTheory, select For an unsupported cloud provider.
Click Next.
Provide a unique name for the new rate card.
Add a description that will help you remember the purpose and scope of the new rate card.
Enable each section that you want to provide cost information for.
In the first section you want to configure, click Add SKU.
The Add modal will open.
In List of SKU names, enter the SKUs for this resource type using a comma-separated format.
Add a description that will help you remember the purpose and scope of this SKU collection.
In Discount type, do one of the following:
- Select Percentage, and then specify the percentage discount in Value.
  Note: Use the Percentage discount type when your cloud service provider is integrated with RealTheory (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Select Flat rate, and then specify the flat rate cost in Value.
  Note: Use the Flat rate discount type when your Kubernetes is hosted in an environment that is not integrated with RealTheory (for example, OCI, local data center).
Assign the appropriate regions:
- For integrated cloud providers, select individual regions from Available Regions or leave the default setting of All regions
- For non-integrated environments, enter the applicable regions
In Properties, add appropriate key/value pairs.
If the SKUs have date restrictions, specify the Valid From and/or Valid To dates.
Add any comments that might be helpful.
Examples: Why the date restriction was included. Why a particular region is or is not included.
Do one of the following:
- If you need to add another SKU for the same resource, click Save and create next SKU. Repeat Steps 11 - 18.
- If you have no other SKUs for this resource type, click Save.
If you want to set a default discount for this resource type, click Set default discount and specify the Percentage or Flat rate discount.
Note: The default discount will be used for any resource of this type that does not match any of the specified SKUs.
Move to the next section you want to configure and repeat Steps 11 - 19.
After you have provided all the cost information you want used for cost analysis, do one of the following:
- If you are directly assigning the new rate card to the appropriate clusters, click Save and Assign. Go to Step 22.
- If you are using rate card policies to assign rate cards to the appropriate clusters, click Save and then go to Settings > Cost > Rate Card Policies to verify that you have a rate card policy that applies this rate card to the appropriate cluster(s).
In the Assign rate card to clusters view, select the clusters that should use the new rate card.
Click Update.

The new rate card will be assigned to the selected clusters. As cost data is collected, it will be made available.