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# Connectors For K8s and CACM K8s

Automatically create Harness connectors that are required to get K8s costs into CACM

The process below defines how to provision Harness connectors to get K8s costs into CACM.

## Permissions <a href="#permissions" id="permissions"></a>

You will need access to create CACM connectors in Harness. When running the Terraform code, two variables need to be defined:

`HARNESS_ACCOUNT_ID` = (Your Harness Account ID)

`HARNESS_PLATFORM_API_KEY` = Created via a [service account](https://developer.harness.io/harness-ai/use-harness-platform/platform-access-control/add-and-manage-service-account) with connector and CACM admin permissions across all resources.

## Setup Providers <a href="#setup-providers" id="setup-providers"></a>

We need to leverage the Harness Terraform provider. We will use this provider to create two connectors for each cluster. We will also define all of our cluster names within Terraform `locals` block. The cluster names will be used to create the connectors.

```
terraform {
  required_providers {
    harness = {
      source = "harness/harness"
    }
  }
}

provider "harness" {}

locals {
    cluster_names = toset(["cluster-a", "cluster-b", "cluster-c"])
}
```

## Create A K8s Connector For Each Cluster <a href="#create-a-k8s-connector-for-each-cluster" id="create-a-k8s-connector-for-each-cluster"></a>

This is the first connector we need to provision. It addresses the question: "How do I connect to the delegate in the cluster"?

```
resource "harness_platform_connector_kubernetes" "cluster-connector" {
  for_each = local.cluster_names
  identifier  = replace(each.value, "-", "_")
  name        = replace(each.value, "_", "-")

  inherit_from_delegate {
    delegate_selectors = [each.value]
  }
}
```

## Create A CACM K8s Connector For Each Cluster <a href="#create-a-cacm-k8s-connector-for-each-cluster" id="create-a-cacm-k8s-connector-for-each-cluster"></a>

This connector can only be provisioned after the K8s connector. It's in charge of letting the process know we need to start gathering metrics for CACM.

```
resource "harness_platform_connector_kubernetes_cloud_cost" "ccm-cluster-connector" {
  for_each = local.cluster_names
  identifier  = "${replace(each.value, "-", "_")}_ccm"
  name        = "${replace(each.value, "_", "-")}-ccm"

  features_enabled = ["VISIBILITY", "OPTIMIZATION"]
  connector_ref    = harness_platform_connector_kubernetes.cluster-connector[each.key].id
}
```

## Conclusion <a href="#conclusion" id="conclusion"></a>

This is a general example of taking a list of clusters and creating the two necessary connectors to get K8s costs into CACM. Before you create these connectors, you need to be sure you have a delegate running in the cluster. If the EKS clusters are running in AWS, the metrics server also needs to be enabled in each cluster.

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