OpenCost UI

The OpenCost UI is included in the default installation of OpenCost and provides a visualization of the Kubernetes allocations and the related Cloud Costs. This walkthrough highlights some of the components of the OpenCost UI:

kubectl port-forward

Once your OpenCost has been installed, wait for the pod to be ready and port forward with:

kubectl port-forward --namespace opencost service/opencost 9003 9090

To verify that the UI and server are running, you may access the OpenCost UI at http://localhost:9090.

Ingress for OpenCost UI

If you want to open more semi-permanent access to the OpenCost UI you may add an ingress rule.

Save the following to an ingress.yaml and apply it with kubectl apply -f ingress.yaml -n opencost

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: opencost-ingress
  namespace: opencost
  annotations:
    traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.entrypoints: web
spec:
  rules:
    - http:
        paths:
          - path: /
            pathType: Prefix
            backend:
              service:
                name: opencost
                port:
                  name: opencost-ui

This is also supported in the Helm chart, add the following to the relevant section of your local.yaml and apply via Helm.

opencost:
  ui:
    enabled: true
    ingress:
      enabled: true
      hosts:
        - host: HOSTNAME
          paths:
            - /

You should now have access via http://HOSTNAME

UI Development

The source for the OpenCost UI is in https://github.com/opencost/opencost-ui with instructions for developing locally.