bilgepump

Mark/Notify/Sweep cloud cost cleanup tool

• About
• Configuration
• Required Tags
• Logs
• Configuration Options
• Command Line Options

About

Bilge Pump is a tool that crawls your cloud accounts for configurable resources, such as EC2 instanances in amazon and marks them for later cleanup. It is based on using metadata tags to determine if a resource has lived beyond its useful lifetime. That tag, usually ttl is checked and if the asset has exceeded its useful lifetime is deleted.

Current state

• This is the first release to OSS. Certain aspects, particularly the notifications, haven't been tested in a while. It's possibly things may/may not work - please post issues as needed!

Configuration

Bilge Pump is configured via yaml. Eventually the only configuration required will be for objects and filters. An example can be found under this repo in file: config.yml.example

Required Tags

• ttl - the length of time your asset should live. a ttl of 0 is "forever". Uses Go duration format.
• purpose - a short string containing the purpose of the asset. example: "redis for stage spinnaker"
• owner - the owner of the asset in (preferably) email format or their slack username. assets without this tag will instead have a default owner (a slack channel) where notices are sent.

Kubernetes: Required Annotations

Annotations are only required on the namespace. This tool doesn't consider any other k8s objects at this time.

The following example shows the supported annotations:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: <insert-namespace-name-here>
  annotations:
    armory.io/bilge.ttl: "0" # REQUIRED! Go duration format. Ex:  "1w" == 1 week
    armory.io/bilge.owner: "somePerson@company.org" # optional...but you should be setting it.
    armory.io/bilge.purpose: "for testing" # optional

Configuration Options

Global Options:

• redis_host type: string default: 127.0.0.1 --> redis ip or hostname
• redis_port type: uint32 default: 6379 --> redis port
• slack (optional)
  • token type: string --> an application or bot token with enough persmissions to do email lookups
  • default_owner type: string --> if a channel isn't specified, send notifications to this person
  • channel type: string --> channel to notify when objects don't have owners
• aws type: array --> a list of aws accounts to garbage collect
  • name required type: string --> the name of the account to garbage collect
  • max_retries optional type: int --> the number of times to try aws calls (default: 10)
  • region required type: string --> the region to operate in
  • accessKeyId required type: string --> access key id
  • secretAccessKey required type: string --> secret access key
  • candidates required type: array --> a string array of AWS object types to garbage collect. (current possible values: ec2, eks, elb, alb, ebs, sg (securiy groups), ec (elasticache), asg (autoscale groups), lc (launch configs))
  • mark_schedule optional type: cron default: @hourly --> a cron schedule that represents how often you want to mark things for GC. For cron syntax see: https://godoc.org/github.com/robfig/cron
  • sweep_schedule optional type: cron default: @daily --> a cron schedule that represents how often you want to delete things that have been marked. For cron syntax see: https://godoc.org/github.com/robfig/cron
  • notify_schedule optional type: cron default: @every 12h --> a cron schedule that represents how often you want to send notifications. For cron syntax see: https://godoc.org/github.com/robfig/cron
  • delete_enabled optional type: bool default: false --> when false we do not actually delete objects. good for testing.
  • grace_period optional type: duration default: 24h --> how long you want to wait before actually deleting an object. give people time to react to notifications.
  • not_tags optional type: array --> a list of key and value, key_regex or value_regex labels to use to ignore things for delete
    • key required if value is present type: string --> the key to match to ignore something
    • value required if key is present type: string --> the value to match to ignore something
    • key_regex optional type: string --> the Go regular expression pattern used to ignore an asset based on a tag key
    • value_regex optional type: string --> the Go regular expression pattern used to ignore an asset based on a tag value
• kubernetes type: array --> a list of k8s accounts to garbage collect namespaces. note: all scheduling options are the same as the aws mark/sweep
  • kubeconfig type: string --> path to your kubectl compatible configuration. this tool deletes namespaces so it will need admin access to the k8s cluster
  • kubecontext type: string --> if you use a kubeconfig with many cluster definitions, use this to select the context

Required Permissions

AWS

Requires at least PowerUser so bilge can delete resources

Kubernetes

Assuming you have RBAC enabled, the bilge will need cluster-admin

Steps:

Create a service account:

$ kubectl create serviceaccount bilge

Create a cluster role binding:

$ kubectl create clusterrolebinding bilge-cluster-admin-binding --clusterrole=cluster-admin --user=system:serviceaccount:default:bilge

Generate a kubeconfig

$ bin/gen_kubeconfigh.sh $kubeapiserver $token_name $output_file

Command Line Options

Usage:
  bilgepump [flags]
  bilgepump [command]

Available Commands:
  help        Help about any command
  test        Runs a single configuration through a Mark phase test
  version     Prints version information

Flags:
  -c, --config string     config location (default "./config.yml")
  -h, --help              help for bilgepump
  -l, --loglevel string   log level (default "info")

Use "bilgepump [command] --help" for more information about a command.

To test a single account but not record anything in redis:

$ bilgepump --config ./config.yml test aws armory-test