Enabling Kompass insights and solutions

This topic explains how Kompass insights, Spot management, and Headroom reduction are enabled in your K8s environment.

Enabling is a 2-step process:

1. Enable visibility with the Kompass Insights agent

   When the Insights agent is installed, Kompass shows K8s cluster and workload insights: costs, scaling performance, workload usage, and pattern history. In addition, Kompass can make recommendations for your environment.

   • Grant Zesty IAM access with read-only permissions.

   • Create a Kompass-compatible CUR and integrate it with Zesty

     This is optional, but without a CUR, the cost and saving data presented will be estimated.

   • Install the Insights agent in the cluster.

     These steps are done during the user onboarding. For more information, contact your Zesty representative.
     After the Insights agent is installed, Kompass insights and recommendations are displayed immediately. For more meaningful data, the Insights agent needs to collect data for 7+ days.

2. Enable automation with the Kompass Compute agent

   The Compute agent enables HiberScale, the power behind the Spot management and Headroom reduction solutions.

   The Insights agent must be installed in the cluster before installing the Compute agent.

   The Compute agent is installed using the qubexctl utility.

   • To install the Kompass Compute agent, see Install the Kompass Compute agent.

The Kompass agents are installed in each cluster that you want to optimize.