[Openstack-operators] How are you handling billing/chargeback?

Mike Lowe jomlowe at iu.edu
Tue Mar 13 23:21:39 UTC 2018


Ceilometer (now panko) vm exists events coerced to look like jobs from a HPC batch system.

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> On Mar 13, 2018, at 6:11 PM, Simon Leinen <simon.leinen at switch.ch> wrote:
> 
> Lars Kellogg-Stedman writes:
>> I'm curious what folks out there are using for chargeback/billing in
>> your OpenStack environment.
> 
> We use a homegrown billing system that periodically samples utilization
> of billable resources.
> 
> (We turned off Ceilometer a few years ago because we weren't really
> using it and found that it caused us trouble.)
> -- 
> Simon.
> 
>> Are you doing any sort of chargeback (or showback)?  Are you using (or
>> have you tried) CloudKitty?  Or some other existing project?  Have you
>> rolled your own instead?
> 
>> I ask because I am helping out some folks get a handle on the
>> operational side of their existing OpenStack environment, and they are
>> interested in but have not yet deployed some sort of reporting
>> mechanism.
> 
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