Azure Subscription Cost Management

A Blazor-based dashboard for reviewing Azure subscription Actual Cost and managing budgets according to each signed-in user's Azure permissions.

Prerequisites

• .NET 10 SDK
• PowerShell 7.4 or later 👉 Windows ONLY
• Azure CLI
• Azure Developer CLI
• Aspire CLI
• GitHub Copilot app

Getting Started

Azure login

1. Login to Azure.

   # Azure CLI
   az login
   
   # Azure Developer CLI
   azd auth login

Local development

1. Create the local Microsoft Entra registration and credential.

   # zsh/bash
   ./scripts/new-dashboard-entra-app.sh --with-client-secret

   # PowerShell
   ./scripts/New-DashboardEntraApp.ps1 -WithClientSecret

2. Run Aspire.

   # Aspire CLI
   aspire run --file ./apphost.cs
   
   # dotnet CLI
   dotnet run --project src/AzureCostDashboard.AppHost

Azure deployment

1. Run the command.

   azd up

   You will be asked to provide the environment name, subscription and location.

2. If you want to use GitHub Actions as the CI/CD pipeline, run the following command and push changes.

   azd pipeline config

   Then, follow the prompt by selecting and/or entering values.

GitHub app canvas

The extension in .github/extensions/azure-cost-dashboard provides an Azure Cost Dashboard canvas backed by the current Azure CLI session:

Open this repository in the GitHub Copilot app and ask Copilot to open the Azure Cost Dashboard canvas. The canvas discovers the subscriptions visible to the signed-in Azure CLI user and queries month-to-date Actual Cost.

TO-DO list

See the PRD MoSCoW priorities and implementation status for completed and remaining Must-have, Should-have, Could-have, and Won't-have items.

Read more

• Azure Cost Management
• Aspire
• Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL)
• GitHub Copilot app