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The Guide to Kubernetes Labels

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Re: The Guide to Kubernetes Labels

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Post by AjayTripathy »

raitom wrote: post #20

Funny. I'm working on a specific issue with GCP GKE Autopilot. I'm running a bunch of workloads every day with 1 pod per client. Each pod has various running time and I wanted to know the pod cost per client. I tried to use Kubecost but could not find any option at all to do what I wanted. My labels never appeared on the Kubecost UI. It's funny now to see an article about labels knowing that Kubecost itself doesn't s…

Kubecost fully supports labels by default-- however until recent versions we relied on kube-state-metrics for that data, which requires users to whitelist the labels they want to see. If you upgrade to our latest version, I'd be surprised if this still wasn't working for you. Once you've upgraded, you can reach out to support@kubecost.com if labels still aren't appearing or me personally ajay@kubecost.com and I'd be happy to help troubleshoot.

Re: The Guide to Kubernetes Labels

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Post by stumarkin »

alexjplant wrote: post #6

Uhhh... > Instead, Kubernetes annotations are meant for sharing information with other colleagues. For example, you may use an annotation to record the phone number of the person responsible for a pod ...wat? The k8s docs say > You can use Kubernetes annotations to attach arbitrary non-identifying metadata to objects. Clients such as tools and libraries can retrieve this metadata. I've only ever seen them used in thi…

We discussed and agree, PR just merged to update this reference: https://github.com/kubecost/blog/pull/26

Re: The Guide to Kubernetes Labels

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Post by reilly3000 »

Labeling is incredibly useful but there is such a thing as overuse of them. One time I encountered a particularly fanatical user of labels and it made all of the logs difficult to view, index, and query. Also it can be oenerous to set all of those labels on every resource according to each key’s conventions. 3-5 taxonomies are great, 20 not so much.

Re: The Guide to Kubernetes Labels

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Post by raitom »

AjayTripathy wrote: post #21
raitom wrote: post #20

Funny. I'm working on a specific issue with GCP GKE Autopilot. I'm running a bunch of workloads every day with 1 pod per client. Each pod has various running time and I wanted to know the pod cost per client. I tried to use Kubecost but could not find any option at all to do what I wanted. My labels never appeared on the Kubecost UI. It's funny now to see an article about labels knowing that Kubecost itself doesn't s…

Kubecost fully supports labels by default-- however until recent versions we relied on kube-state-metrics for that data, which requires users to whitelist the labels they want to see. If you upgrade to our latest version, I'd be surprised if this still wasn't working for you. Once you've upgraded, you can reach out to support@kubecost.com if labels still aren't appearing or me personally ajay@kubecost.com and I'd be…

Ok my bad then. Thanks! I will take a look and see if it works for me.

Re: The Guide to Kubernetes Labels

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Post by AjayTripathy »

raitom wrote: post #25
AjayTripathy wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kubecost fully supports labels by default-- however until recent versions we relied on kube-state-metrics for that data, which requires users to whitelist the labels they want to see. If you upgrade to our latest version, I'd be surprised if this still wasn't working for you. Once you've upgraded, you can reach out to support@kubecost.com if labels still aren't appearing or me personally ajay@kubecost.com and I'd be…

Ok my bad then. Thanks! I will take a look and see if it works for me.

No problem! Please let me know how we can help.
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