Making Cost Information Available for Environments That Are Not Currently Integrated with RealTheory

RealTheory is currently integrated with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Service (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform to provide an accurate cost analysis for your Kubernetes implementation in those environments. If your Kubernetes implementation is not hosted by these cloud providers, RealTheory can still provide cost information if you configure and assign a custom rate card to each cluster.

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

1. Login in to your RealTheory account as a user with either the sys_admin or rate_card_admin role.

2. Navigate to Settings > Cost > Rate Cards.

3. Click Create New.

4. Select Custom.

5. Click Next.

6. Provide a unique name for the new rate card.

7. Add a description that will help you remember the purpose and scope of the new rate card.

8. Enable each section that you want to provide cost information for.

9. Within each section, provide cost information for each sub-option that you want to provide cost information for.

   Note: If you do not want to provide cost information for a sub-option, click the sub-option toggle control to disable that sub-option.

10. 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 11.
    • 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).

11. In the Assign rate card to clusters view, select the clusters that should use the new rate card.

12. Click Update.

    The new rate card will be assigned to the selected clusters. As cost data is collected, it will be made available in the Cost perspective of the Visualization views.