January 26, 2023 OpenCost Working Group Notes

[Matt Ray]

Agenda

• OpenCost Helm Chart merged and updates pending

• Updates on OpenAPI docs – Matt Ray 

• opencost/docs repository?

• SCALE talk & sponsorship secured 

• CNCF Webinar – Feb 2nd

• External cloud costs (cloud assets, network traffic, monitoring)

  • Working group? 

    • Yes! Collaborate #wg-finops-open-cost-and-usage-standard

    • Should we go real-time? 

  • Prometheus? Yes! Export the cost of a bucket, same way we export the cost of the bucket.. region, etc. Usage + storage costs 

• Contribute OpenCost to https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts

• OpenCost.io blog posts welcome!

  • FinOps certification 

• Reviewers needed!

  • https://github.com/opencost/opencost

  • https://github.com/opencost/opencost-website

  • https://github.com/opencost/opencost-helm-chart

• CNCF incubation review: https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/process/graduation_criteria.md#incubating-stage

• Idle definition – David to refine, Niko, Kai, and Webb potentially

  • Active discussion here

  • https://github.com/opencost/opencost/issues/1379

•  OpenCost release cadence

  • Follows https://docs.kubecost.com/architecture/release-process(First Tuesday of the month)

 Attendees

• Webb Brown
• Mark Poko
• Matt Ray
  

Notes

• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cloud-native-predictions-2023-chris-aniszczyk/

• Opencost-helm-chart needs new issue for configuring Prometheus

  • https://github.com/opencost/opencost-helm-chart/issues/8

• Share new swagger docs with those that expressed interest! 

• Should we move to spec / docs to OpenCost repo?

  • Probably not for now

• Open Source Summit – CFP ends Feb 5 (Vancouver May 10-12)

• Kubecon Day – Kubecost + Grafana to explore… 

  • Webb Brown and mark...@grafana.com to explore

• Cloud cost interest

  • Form working group, check in with FinOps Foundation

  • Matt Ray Webb Brown to share updates

• Update documentation to reference release schedule!

  • Production releases are scheduled for the first Tuesday of every month.

  • https://github.com/opencost/opencost-website/issues/73 

• Incubation review

  • https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/process/graduation_criteria.md

  • Rich feedback: review documents beforehand

  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QQ3K9fOp-84UyX7OZbIndrIZs6HqF60k5DamKv9y8tM/edit#heading=h.oi0g60hewt3y  

The OpenCost Working Group meeting notes for this (and future and previous) meeting are available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JFB_-sjF8F9UWet1c-dWixdMZY4hri23UlQG5FX5xfY/edit#heading=h.shpe8c3bu23m

If you're interested in continuing the conversation, feel free to respond or join us in the #opencost channel of CNCF Slack. The next session is February 9, 2023.

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Senior Community Manager for OpenCost - Kubecost
mat...@kubecost.com