Azure Integration

Cost Management needs access to the Microsoft Azure Billing Rate Card API to access accurate pricing data for your Kubernetes resources.

Users must perform the below steps and complete a few setups to create a Cost profile in the controller.

Step 1: Custom Azure Role Creation

• Create an Azure role definition. Below is an example file, in which the user must replace YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_ID with the Subscription ID where your Kubernetes Clusters are running:

    {
        "Name": "CostmanagementRole",
        "IsCustom": true,
        "Description": "Rate Card query role",
        "Actions": [
            "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/vmSizes/read",
            "Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/locations/read",
            "Microsoft.Resources/providers/read",
            "Microsoft.ContainerService/containerServices/read",
            "Microsoft.Commerce/RateCard/read"
        ],
        "AssignableScopes": [
            "/subscriptions/YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_ID"
        ]
    }
    ```

- Save this file with a preferred name, for example, **_myazurerole.json_**

- Run the below command to register that role with Azure

```bash
    az role definition create --verbose --role-definition @myazurerole.json
    ```

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## Step 2: Create an Azure Service Principal

- Run the below command to create an Azure Service Principal

```bash
    az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "<display_name>" --role "CostmanagementRole" --scope "/subscriptions/YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_ID" --output json
    ```

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## Step 3: Azure Service Principal details to Cost Management

### Supplying through Cloud Credentials

Create a cloud credentials of type **Cost Management** and provider **Azure**. Enter all the parameters

If selecting 'Cluster Provisioning Credentials', update the Cost Management role to include the Enterprise Application used for Cluster Provisioning, and skip Step 2 and Step 3.

Refer [Cloud credentials](https://docs.rafay.co/cost_management/cloud_credentials/) for more details.

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## Step 4: Cost Profile

Create a custom role, enable **Custom Pricing** and provide **Cloud credentials**

This Custom Cost Profile can be applied to clusters via blueprints.

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