Today, Vantage is announcing support for the Vantage Kubernetes Agent on Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), enabling customers to gain granular visibility into Kubernetes costs running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Customers can now deploy the Vantage Kubernetes Agent via Helm on OKE clusters to automatically collect resource-level cost data and surface it in Vantage alongside other providers.

Previously, customers using OKE on Oracle Cloud had visibility into compute and memory costs by host using the native OCI billing integration, but more granular Kubernetes-level allocation, such as cost by workload, namespace, or label, was not available. This limited FinOps practitioners and platform engineers from fully understanding workload-level cost drivers within OKE.

Now, with support for the Vantage Kubernetes Agent on Oracle Kubernetes workloads, customers can gain cost visibility and efficiency analytics to any OCI Kubernetes workload. Once deployed to each cluster, the agent continuously reports resource utilization and cost allocation data to Vantage, automatically mapping Oracle Cloud compute and storage costs to Kubernetes namespaces, pods, and labels. Vantage customers can then perform deep analysis on compute utilization and spend using Kubernetes Efficiency Reports, or allocate compute and storage costs alongside other provider costs within Cost Reports.

Support for the Vantage Kubernetes Agent on Oracle Kubernetes workloads is available today to all Vantage customers. To get started, install the agent using Helm on your Oracle Kubernetes cluster. For more information, view our Kubernetes Agent documentation.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is being launched today?

Vantage is launching support for the Vantage Kubernetes Agent on Oracle Kubernetes workloads. Customers can now deploy the agent to OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) clusters to collect and visualize Kubernetes-level costs within Vantage.

2. Who is the customer?

Any Vantage customer running Kubernetes workloads on Oracle Cloud infrastructure using OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes can use this integration.

3. How much does this cost?

There is no additional cost to use the Kubernetes Agent on Oracle workloads.

4. How do I install the Vantage Kubernetes Agent on Oracle Kubernetes clusters?

The Vantage Kubernetes Agent is installed via Helm. Customers simply need permissions to install Helm repositories in their Kubernetes environment. Once installed, the agent automatically reports usage and cost data to Vantage. For general installation steps, refer to the Kubernetes Agent documentation.

5. What kind of cost data does the Vantage Kubernetes Agent provide?

The Vantage Kubernetes Agent provides visibility into costs by namespace, label, pod, and service. Data collected from Oracle Kubernetes clusters is unified with existing cloud provider costs to provide a single view of all workloads across EKS, GKE, AKS, and OKE.

6. Do I need to update my existing Oracle integration in order to utilize the Kubernetes Agent reporting?

No, customers who already have a native Oracle Cloud integration can simply install the Kubernetes Agent on their OKE clusters to begin collecting resource-level Kubernetes costs.

7. When viewing my Kubernetes integration and OCI integration together in a Cost Report, how do I ensure costs are not double counted?

When viewing costs from both the Kubernetes agent and OCI together, ensure you remove OKE costs from the native OCI integration for clusters already included in the Kubernetes provider to prevent double-counting costs.

8. What permissions do I need in Oracle Cloud to deploy the agent?

You need permissions to install Helm repositories on your Oracle Kubernetes cluster.

9. What permissions do I need in Vantage to deploy the agent?

Anyone can install the agent onto OKE clusters, even individuals who are not Vantage users. Once deployed, the agent will automatically start sending data to Vantage for users’ consumption.

10. How frequently are metrics collected?

Workload metrics are collected based on your polling period, which is default to every 60 seconds but as low as 5 seconds. These are sent to Vantage on an hourly basis. In the event that your Kubernetes workloads cannot communicate with the Vantage APIs, the Kubernetes Agent’s Data Persistence Recovery will retain the data for up to 96 hours.

11. How frequently are metrics updated in the Vantage console?

Kubernetes costs will be refreshed daily. For more information, see our Provider Data Refresh documentation.

12. Will I receive rightsizing recommendations for OKE Kubernetes workloads?

Yes, Vantage will provide Kubernetes Rightsizing Recommendations for OKE workloads.