[telemetry][cloudkitty][ceilometer] Billing windows instances
Rafael Weingärtner
rafaelweingartner at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 14:39:31 UTC 2022
Awesome! i am glad to hear that you guys are managing to use it. If you
need anything, please let me know.
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 11:21 AM Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
> On 10/21/22 17:40, Rafael Weingärtner wrote:
> > Hello Zigo!,
> > You might want to take a look at the new implementations we made in
> > ceilometer, and CloudKitty.
> > - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cloudkitty/+/861806
> > <https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cloudkitty/+/861806>
> > - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/856178
> > <https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/856178>
> > - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/852021
> > <https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/852021>
> > - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/850253
> > <https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/850253>
> > - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/855953
> > <https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/855953>
> >
> > Not directly relate to this use case, but also might interest you:
> > - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cloudkitty/+/861786
> > <https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cloudkitty/+/861786>
> > - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cloudkitty/+/861807
> > <https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cloudkitty/+/861807>
> > - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cloudkitty/+/861908
> > <https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cloudkitty/+/861908>
> > - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/856972
> > <https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/856972>
> > - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/861109
> > <https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/861109>
> > - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/856304
> > <https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/856304>
> > - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/856305
> > <https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ceilometer/+/856305>
> >
> >
> > In short, we can now create Ceilometer compute dynamic pollsters, which
> > can execute scripts in the host, and check the actual operating system
> > installed in the VM. Then, this data can be pushed back to the storage
> > backend via Ceilometer as an attribute, which is then processed in
> > CloudKitty. Furthermore, we extended cloudkitty to generate different
> > ratings for the same metric. Therefore, by doing this, we do not need
> > multiple metrics to have different CloudKitty ratings appearing for
> > users. This allows us, for instance, to have one rating for the VM usage
> > itself, and others for each license, and so on.
>
> Hi Raphael!
>
> Thanks a lot for all of the above (both the patches merged upstream
> themselves, and taking the time to give me reference to them).
>
> We've backported this to our production version (ie: Victoria) without
> too much pain (it took me like 4 hours to do so, cherry-picking missing
> patches on top of which these were applied). We then wrote a quick
> command to produce a JSON containing the image type (as reported by the
> os_type property of the image) that we put in cache in the compute, and
> then dump this image type, and the associated project ID. This looks
> promising: we only need to write the dynamic pollster now! :)
>
> So really, thanks a lot. I'll let you know when we have a full solution
> (that I will also publish as free software).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>
>
>
--
Rafael Weingärtner
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