Chapter 1. Creating a Microsoft Azure integration

In cost management:

1. Click Settings Menu > Integrations.
2. In the Cloud tab, click Add integration.
3. In the Add a cloud integration wizard, select Microsoft Azure and click Next.
4. Enter a name for your integration and click Next.
5. In the Select application step, select Hybrid committed spend and click Next.

6. In the Specify cost export scope step, select I am OK with sending the default data to Cost Management.

   • If you are registering RHEL usage billing, select Include RHEL usage. Otherwise, proceed to the next step.
7. Select the scope of your cost data export from the menu. You can export data at the subscription level or by other scopes in your subscription.
8. Copy the command that is generated.

In your Microsoft Azure account:

9. Click Cloud Shell and run the command that you copied from cost management. Copy the returned value.

In cost management:

10. In the Specify cost export scope step, paste the value that you copied from Microsoft Azure into Cost export scope.
11. Click Next.

In your Microsoft Azure account:

1. In the search bar, enter "storage" and click Storage accounts.
2. On the Storage accounts page, click Create.
3. In the Resource Group field, click Create new. Enter a name and click OK. In this example, use cost-data-group.
4. In the Instance details section, enter a name in the Storage account name field. For example, use costdata.
5. Copy the names of the resource group and storage account so you can add them to the Add a cloud integration wizard in Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console and click Review.
6. Review the storage account and click Create.

In cost management:

8. In the Add a cloud integration wizard, paste the resource group and storage account names that you copied into Resource group name and Storage account name.

In your Microsoft Azure account:

1. In the search bar, enter "cost exports" and click the result.
2. Click Create.
3. In Select a template, click Cost and usage (actual) to export your standard usage and purchase charges.

4. Follow the steps in the Azure wizard:

   • You can either create a new resource group and storage account or select existing ones. In this example, we use billingexportdata for the storage account and billinggroup for the resource group.
   • You must set Format to CSV.
   • Set Compression type to None or Gzip.
5. Review the information and click Create.

In cost management:

6. Return to the Add a cloud integration wizard and complete the steps in Daily export
7. Click Next.

In your Microsoft Azure account:

1. Click Cloud Shell.

2. Enter the following command to get your Subscription ID:

   az account show --query "{subscription_id: id }"

3. Copy the value that is generated for subscription_id.

   Example response

   {
       "subscription_id": 00000000-0000-0000-000000000000
       }

In cost management:

4. In the Subscription ID field of the Add a cloud integration wizard, paste the value that you copied in the previous step.
5. Click Next.

Procedure

1. In the Add a cloud integration wizard, on the Roles step, copy the generated az ad sp create-for-rbac command from the wizard to create a service principal with the Cost Management Storage Account Contributor role.
2. In your Microsoft Azure account, click Cloud Shell.
3. Paste the command you copied in the earlier step in the cloud shell prompt.
4. Copy the Tenant (Directory) ID, Client (Application) ID, and Client secret values and paste them into the Roles step of the Add a cloud integration wizard.
5. Copy the second generated az role assignment create command from the wizard and paste it in the cloud shell prompt to create a Cost Management Reader role.
6. In the Add a cloud integration wizard, click Next.
7. Review the information you provided in the wizard and click Add.