Koku Helm Chart Deployment

About Koku

Koku is a cloud-native application designed to simplify cost management and monitoring in Kubernetes environments. It provides insights into resource utilization, helping organizations optimize their cloud spending efficiently. Koku integrates seamlessly with AWS and Kubernetes, enabling real-time cost tracking and analysis.

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed before proceeding:

• Helm
• Kubernetes cluster configured
• AWS credentials
• Database Setup

Note

Create two new users, named postgres and hive, and assign secure passwords to each. Configure the necessary permissions, as below. Then, create two databases: koku for the postgres user and hive for the hive user.

Installation Steps

1. Add Koku Helm Repository

helm repo add koku https://skyu-io.github.io/koku-helm-chart

2. Update Helm Repositories

helm repo update

3. Install Koku

Replace the following values with your actual values.

helm install koku koku/koku \
  --set credentials.awsAccessKeyId="<your-aws-access-key-id>" \
  --set credentials.awsSecretAccessKey="<your-aws-secret-access-key>" \
  --set database.postgresSQLServiceHost="<your-postgres-host>" \
  --set database.databaseName="<your-database-name>" \
  --set database.databaseUser="<your-database-user-name>" \
  --set database.databaseAdmin="<your-database-admin-user-name>" \
  --set database.databasePassword="<your-database-password>" \
  --set database.hiveDatabaseName="<your-hive-database-name>" \
  --set database.hiveDatabaseUser="<your-hive-database-user-name>" \
  --set database.hiveDatabasePassword="<your-hive-database-password>" \
  --namespace koku --create-namespace

Verification

After installation, check if the deployment was successful:

kubectl get pods -n koku

You should see running pods associated with Koku.

Uninstalling Koku

To uninstall Koku and remove all associated resources, run:

helm uninstall koku -n koku

Port-forwarding the Koku server

kubectl port-forward svc/koku-server -n koku 8000