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The good folks at <a href="http://superuser.openstack.org/">SuperUser</a>
are intrigued by this topic and interested in writing a feature. I've
compiled the feedback so far in <a
href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Billing-Chargeback">this etherpad</a>.
If there are any final thoughts please free to <a
href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Billing-Chargeback">add to it</a>.
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If you have questions about the nature of the article or would like to
be contacted about the subject matter, please reach out to <a
href="mailto:allison@openstack.org">Allison Price</a> or <a
href="mailto:nicole@openstack.org">Nicole Martinelli</a>.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
Jimmy<br>
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cite="mid:3E58AE40-309A-493E-A9E2-17897E119B3D@cern.ch" type="cite">
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch"
style="color:#485664
!important;padding-right:6px;font-weight:500;text-decoration:none
!important;">Tim Bell</a></div> <div
style="display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:middle;width:48%;text-align:
right;"> <font color="#909AA4"><span style="padding-left:6px">March
14, 2018 at 12:39 PM</span></font></div> </div></div>
<div style="color:#909AA4;margin-left:24px;margin-right:24px;"
__pbrmquotes="true" class="__pbConvBody"><div>We’re using a combination
of cASO (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://caso.readthedocs.io/en/stable/">https://caso.readthedocs.io/en/stable/</a>) and some low level
libvirt fabric monitoring. The showback accounting reports are generated
with merging with other compute/storage usage across various systems
(HTCondor, SLURM, ...)<br><br>It would seem that those who needed
solutions in the past found they had to do them themselves. It would be
interesting if there are references of usage data/accounting/chargeback
at scale with the current project set but doing the re-evaluation would
be an effort which would need to be balanced versus just keeping the
local solution working.<br><br>Tim<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From:
Lars Kellogg-Stedman <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lars@redhat.com"><lars@redhat.com></a><br>Date: Wednesday, 14
March 2018 at 17:15<br>To: openstack-operators
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org"><openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org></a><br>Subject: Re:
[Openstack-operators] How are you handling billing/chargeback?<br><br>
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 03:21:13PM -0400, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:<br>
> I'm curious what folks out there are using for
chargeback/billing in<br> > your OpenStack environment.<br> <br>
So far it looks like everyone is using a homegrown solution. Is<br>
anyone using an existing product/project?<br> <br> -- <br>
Lars Kellogg-Stedman <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lars@redhat.com"><lars@redhat.com></a> | larsks @
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:lars@redhat.com"
style="color:#485664
!important;padding-right:6px;font-weight:500;text-decoration:none
!important;">Lars Kellogg-Stedman</a></div> <div
style="display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:middle;width:48%;text-align:
right;"> <font color="#909AA4"><span style="padding-left:6px">March
14, 2018 at 11:11 AM</span></font></div> </div></div>
<div style="color:#909AA4;margin-left:24px;margin-right:24px;"
__pbrmquotes="true" class="__pbConvBody"><div><!----><br>So far it looks
like everyone is using a homegrown solution. Is<br>anyone using an
existing product/project?<br><br></div></div>
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style="display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:middle;width:49%;">
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:lars@redhat.com"
style="color:#485664
!important;padding-right:6px;font-weight:500;text-decoration:none
!important;">Lars Kellogg-Stedman</a></div> <div
style="display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:middle;width:48%;text-align:
right;"> <font color="#909AA4"><span style="padding-left:6px">March
12, 2018 at 2:21 PM</span></font></div> </div></div>
<div style="color:#909AA4;margin-left:24px;margin-right:24px;"
__pbrmquotes="true" class="__pbConvBody"><div>Hey folks,<br><br>I'm
curious what folks out there are using for chargeback/billing in<br>your
OpenStack environment.<br><br>Are you doing any sort of chargeback (or
showback)? Are you using (or<br>have you tried) CloudKitty? Or some
other existing project? Have you<br>rolled your own instead?<br><br>I
ask because I am helping out some folks get a handle on the<br>operational
side of their existing OpenStack environment, and they are<br>interested
in but have not yet deployed some sort of reporting<br>mechanism.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br></div></div>
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