Before you beginYou need the cluck CLI, a Pollosoft account, and a coop to work in. No prior experience required. Curiosity and a mild fondness for chickens are helpful.
Overview
Understand your bill and set up budgets that alert before the surprise. The whole thing takes about 8 minutes, and the commands below are the ones you will use along the way.
$ cluck count --period month
$ cluck budget set 5000 --alert 80
$ cluck count --by serviceSteps
- Read the bill. cluck count shows usage by service, coop, and tag. Most surprises come from forgotten staging environments.
- Set budgets. Set a monthly budget with alerts at 50%, 80%, and 100%. We will crow at each threshold.
- Tag everything. Add team and project tags. Untagged resources are the stray chickens of your coop.
- Clean up. Schedule Incubator environments to expire after a week. You will save more than you would believe.
Commands used
Keep going
- Building dashboards in Yolkboard (9 min)
- Multi-coop replication (16 min)
- Free-range functions: cold starts and warm eggs (11 min)
Stuck? Check the error codes, the FAQ, or the glossary.