Creating a Discount Rate Card

Discount rate cards allow you to specify a discount on the on-demand pricing plan for the appropriate integrated cloud provider. You can specify a single discount rate or itemized discount rates for components of the Kubernetes infrastructure such as nodes, storage, networking, load balancers, etc. to best reflect your effective cost.

See Rate Cards Explained for more information about rate cards.

Prerequisite

To manage rate cards, you must have one of the following roles assigned to your user account:

• sys_admin
• rate_card_admin

Procedure

1. As a user with either the sys_admin or rate_card_admin role, navigate to Settings > Cost > Rate Cards.
2. Click Create New.
3. Select Discount Rate Card.
4. Click Next.
5. Provide a unique name for the new rate card.
6. Add a description that will help you remember the purpose and scope of the new rate card.
7. If your effective pricing plan can be reflected in a single discount rate on pay-as-you-go pricing, select All Kubernetes infrastructure and enter the discount rate.
8. If your effective pricing plan is best reflected in custom discount rates on pay-as-you-go pricing for components of the Kubernetes infrastructure, select Selected Kubernetes infrastructure and enter the discount rate for each component.
   Note: If you do not want to specify a discount for a particular component, click the component toggle control to disable that option.
9. After you have provided all the discount rates you want used for cost analysis, do one of the following: