instance-recommender

Motivation

Most cloud cost calculators online only calculate prices of Virtual Machines provided by the cloud provider.

When microservices are involved, one might need a more granular distribution of resources.

Once a calculation of total resources needed to run a microservices infrastructure is measured, this tool will can be used to calculate an price optimal distribution of EC2 instances needed to run all workloads.

Getting started

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/alexsanjoseph/instance-recommender

With docker

• Build the image

$ docker build -t instance-recommender .

• Run the image

$ docker run -p 8501:8501 instance-recommender

Without Docker

• Optionally create a new virtualenv

python3 -m virtualenv .env
source .env/bin/activate 

• Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run streamlit UI using

 streamlit run streamlit.py

Utils

Refresh inventory

The following script will update the pricing inventory used.

python utils/refresh_instance_list.py

Credits

ec2instances.info for providing a well defined structured inventory of EC2 pricing.