Azure Arc

Azure Arc is a bridge that extends the Azure platform to help you build applications and services with the flexibility to run across datacenters, at the edge, and in multi-cloud environments.

Enabled Kubernetes

Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes enables customers to connect and configure Kubernetes clusters across customer datacenters, edge locations, and multi-cloud.

Any number of Kubernetes clusters can be connected and organized in the Azure Portal at no additional cost. Like Arc enabled servers, add-on Azure management services, like Kubernetes Configuration, are charged when enabled.

Kubernetes Configuration

Kubernetes Configuration delivers configuration management and application deployment using GitOps. With this capability, cluster admins can declare their cluster configuration and applications in Git. The development teams can then use pull requests and the tools they are familiar with (existing DevOps pipelines, Git, Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts) to easily deploy applications onto Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters and make updates in production. The GitOps agents listen to changes and facilitate automated rollbacks if these changes result in system divergence from the source of truth. Billing is based on the number of vCPUs/hour in the cluster and is charged monthly. Clusters incur a single charge for configuration management no matter how many repositories are connected.

Clusters can function without a constant connection to Azure. When disconnected, each cluster’s charge will be determined based on the last known number of vCPUs that were registered with Azure Arc. If your cluster will be disconnected from Azure and you don’t want to be charged for Kubernetes Configuration, you can delete the configurations. The vCPU count is updated every 5 minutes when connected. The first 6 vCPUs are included at no cost.

Services	Price	Notes
Azure Policy configuration and Cluster Configuration with GitOps for Arc-enabled Kubernetes	￥20/vCPU/month	The first 6 vCPU’s are free. It is eligible for Azure Hybrid Benefit Azure Hybrid Benefit - Azure Cloud Computing

^**If the Arc enabled Kubernetes cluster is on Azure Stack Edge, AKS on Azure Stack HCI, or AKS on Windows Server 2019 Datacenter, then Kubernetes configuration is included at no charge. More information on this can be found on docs page.

Other management services such as Azure Policy for Kubernetes, Azure Monitor for Containers and Microsoft Defender for Cloud are in preview so there is no cost to use the service at this time. However, for Azure Policy for Kubernetes and Azure Monitor for Containers, any data retained by those services may incur charges as per the pricing for that service.

Azure Arc-enabled servers

Add-on Azure management services (Azure Update Manager, Azure Policy guest configuration, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Defender for Cloud etc.) are charged for Azure Arc enabled servers when enabled.