[Epic] Cost Management and Chargeback on Azure Local Full Build-Out

[kristopherjturner]

[Epic] Cost Management and Chargeback on Azure Local Full Build-Out

Deliver production-ready cost governance automation, chargeback reporting, and documentation for Azure Local workloads.

Scope Boundaries

• Tag taxonomy and Azure Policy enforcement
• Showback and chargeback report generation
• Cost anomaly detection and budget alerting
• Rightsizing recommendations
• Out of scope: third-party FinOps tooling, Azure Billing API SaaS

Hard Close Gate

1. Scripts and policies tested and merged to main
2. CI/CD pipelines passing
3. All sub-tasks closed
4. Documentation published

Child Workstreams

• feat: tag taxonomy and Azure Policy enforcement #1 feat: tag taxonomy and Azure Policy enforcement
• feat: showback and chargeback report generation #2 feat: showback and chargeback report generation
• feat: cost anomaly detection and alerting #3 feat: cost anomaly detection and alerting
• feat: cost optimization and rightsizing recommendations #4 feat: cost optimization and rightsizing recommendations
• infra: CI/CD pipelines (lint, test, release) #5 infra: CI/CD pipelines (lint, test, release)
• docs: documentation and cost governance runbooks #6 docs: documentation and cost governance runbooks

Cross-Repo Dependencies

• �zurelocal-toolkit#4 — variable registry (subscription IDs, cost centers)
• �zurelocal-governance — Azure Policy baseline

References

• Azure Cost Management for Azure Local
• azurelocal-cost repo

[kristopherjturner]

Tracked in Azure DevOps: https://dev.azure.com/hybridcloudsolutions/Azure%20Local%20Cost/_workitems/edit/75