Charge Back The Cost Of OpenShift Virtualization With Red Hat Insights Cost Management
Red Hat News, Thursday, March 6th, 2025
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, included in Red Hat OpenShift, provides a modern platform for you to run and deploy your new and existing virtual machine (VM) workloads. You may run Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and other third-party operating system guests on OpenShift Virtualization.
In layman's terms, OpenShift Virtualization runs VMs inside of pods on a namespace on a cluster. Since VMs will be running on a multitenant platform (Red Hat OpenShift), you may want to take advantage of showback and chargeback capabilities of OpenShift Virtualization VMs.
The cost management service in Red Hat Insights has recently gained support for tracking OpenShift Virtualization, giving customers the ability to track costs directly associated with virtual machines running within their OpenShift clusters. Cost management will now gather information specifically for each VM running in Red Hat OpenShift and associate related costs to it at a monthly aggregate level.