What is OpenCost?
OpenCost models give teams visibility into current and historical Kubernetes spending and resource allocation. These models provide cost transparency in Kubernetes environments that support multiple applications, teams, departments, etc.
OpenCost is a tool in the Container Registry category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Real-time cost allocation by Kubernetes service, deployment, namespace, label, statefulset, daemonset, pod, and containerDynamic asset pricing enabled by integrations with AWS, Azure, and GCP billing APIsSupports on-prem k8s clusters with custom pricing sheetsAllocation for in-cluster resources like CPU, GPU, memory, and persistent volumesAllocation for AWS & GCP out-of-cluster resources like RDS instances and S3 buckets with key (optional)Easily export pricing data to Prometheus with /metrics endpoint (learn more)Free and open source distribution
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OpenCost Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to OpenCost?
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Docker Compose
With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
