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Glad to see there is another group interested in rating/billing. I'm 
thinking if I should announce our rating service to join the fun :-) You 
know, I'm kidding. The more groups join the rating service discussion, 
the better. But IMHO, we just need one rating service for OpenStack. So 
let's collaborate to work out a good rating service to benefit OpenStack 
and consumer. But before more duplicate work, it would be great if we 
can start some discussion. Cheers.

On 14/08/14 01:40, Christophe Sauthier wrote:
> We are very pleased at Objectif Libre to intoduce CloudKitty, an 
> effort to provide a fully OpenSource Rating-as-a-Service comptinent in 
> OpenStack..
>
> Following a first POC presented during the last summit in Atlanta to 
> some Ceilometer devs (thanks again Julien Danjou for your great 
> support !), we continued our effort to create a real service for 
> rating. Today we are happy to share it with you all.
>
>
> So what do we propose in CloudKitty?
>  - a service for collecting metrics (using Ceilometer API)
>  - a modular rating architecture to enable/disable modules and create 
> your own rules on-the-fly, allowing you to use the rating patterns you 
> like
>  - an API to interact with the whole environment from core components 
> to every rating module
>  - a Horizon integration to allow configuration of the rating modules 
> and display of pricing information in "real time" during instance 
> creation
>  - a CLI client to access this information and easily configure 
> everything
>
> Technically we are using all the elements that are used in the various 
> OpenStack projects like olso, stevedore, pecan...
> CloudKitty is highly modular and allows integration / developement of 
> third party collection and rating modules and output formats.
>
> A roadmap is available on the project wiki page (the link is at the 
> end of this email), but we are clearly hoping to have some feedback 
> and ideas on how to improve the project and reach a tighter 
> integration with OpenStack.
>
> The project source code is available at 
> http://github.com/stackforge/cloudkitty
> More stuff will be available on stackforge as soon as the reviews get 
> validated like python-cloudkittyclient and cloudkitty-dashboard, so 
> stay tuned.
>
> The project's wiki page (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CloudKitty) 
> provides more information, and you can reach us via irc on freenode: 
> #cloudkitty. Developper's documentation is on its way to readthedocs too.
>
> We plan to present CloudKitty in detail during the Paris Summit, but 
> we would love to hear from you sooner...
>
> Cheers,
>
>              Christophe and Objectif Libre
>
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