Draft: Design doc: Cloud Cost Attribution

Andreas Brandlrequested to merge
ab/cloud-cost-attribution into main

Why is this change being made?

This design doc describes how we attribute cloud spend to stage groups. It is meant to act as a starting point for a more detailed discussion and to solicit feedback on the technical direction.

This is largely based on assumptions I made - please don't take anything for granted just yet. It'll help explore what we're after.

Read this in conjunction with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/finops/team/-/issues/292.

Preview rendered page: https://gitlab-com.gitlab.io/content-sites/handbook/mr16649/handbook/engineering/architecture/design-documents/cloud_cost_attribution/

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  • First iteration on cloud cost attribution
Edited by Andreas Brandl

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