[Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

Luis Gervaso luis at woorea.es
Sun Apr 22 21:19:42 UTC 2012


On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Luis Gervaso <luis at woorea.es> wrote:

> I think Dough takes care about pricing and billing.
>
> I have proposed an arch and technologies to fill the gap between openstack
> and
> whatever billing system / monitoring system.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Endre Karlson <endre.karlson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What is Dough then compared to what you want to do ?
>>
>> 2012/4/22 Endre Karlson <endre.karlson at gmail.com>
>>
>>> What is Dough then ?
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/4/22 Brian Schott <brian.schott at nimbisservices.com>
>>>
>>>> I see this blueprint for metering, but none for Dough currently.
>>>> http://wiki.openstack.org/EfficientMetering
>>>>
>>>> Here are the Dough slides, however:
>>>> http://www.slideshare.net/lzyeval/dough-openstack-billing-project
>>>>
>>>> We collectively need to talk more about the user scenarios, because I
>>>> don't think you can just put a decorator around the API rpc calls and get
>>>> an accurate picture of what to bill for later.  There are metered things
>>>> like bandwidth or IOPS, events that happen outside of the API (shutdown
>>>> -h), and it is hard to predict what a reseller will want to charge for.  It
>>>> is better to put a metering system in that can handle many billing
>>>> configurations.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>> Brian Schott, CTO
>>>> Nimbis Services, Inc.
>>>> brian.schott at nimbisservices.com
>>>> ph: 443-274-6064  fx: 443-274-6060
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 22, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Luis Gervaso wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dough is the proposed billing platform/product (where the billing rules
>>>> live), isn't it?
>>>>
>>>> I don't know Dough enough, so please me correct me if i'm wrong.
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to define a generic/agnostic integration process, obviously
>>>> where Dough
>>>> can fit perfectly. I would like it become part to the reference
>>>> architecture.
>>>>
>>>> Option 1) [3b in the arch proposed]
>>>>
>>>> Dough should pull NoSQL
>>>>
>>>> Option 2)
>>>>
>>>> A Mediator can feed Dough
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Endre Karlson <endre.karlson at gmail.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What about using the Dough project?
>>>>>
>>>>> Endre.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2012/4/22 Endre Karlson <endre.karlson at gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>> What about using the Dough project ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Endre.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2012/4/22 Luis Gervaso <luis at woorea.es>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I want to share the architecture i am developing in order to perform
>>>>>>> the monitorig / billing OpenStack support:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. AMQP Client which listen to RabbitMQ / QPid (this should be
>>>>>>> interchangeable) (Own Stuff or ServiceMix / Camel)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2. Events should be stored on a NoSQL document oriented database (I
>>>>>>> think mongodb is perfect, since we can query in a super easy fashion)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 3a. The monitoring system can pull/push MongoDB
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 3b. The billing system can pull to create invoices
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 4. A mediation EIP should be necessary to integrate a
>>>>>>> billing/monitoring product. (ServiceMix / Camel)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  This is to receive your feedback. So please, critics are welcome!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> -------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> Luis Alberto Gervaso Martin
>>>>>>> Woorea Solutions, S.L
>>>>>>> CEO & CTO
>>>>>>> mobile: (+34) 627983344
>>>>>>> luis@ <luis.gervaso at gmail.com>woorea.es
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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> Luis Alberto Gervaso Martin
> Woorea Solutions, S.L
> CEO & CTO
> mobile: (+34) 627983344
> luis@ <luis.gervaso at gmail.com>woorea.es
>
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Luis Alberto Gervaso Martin
Woorea Solutions, S.L
CEO & CTO
mobile: (+34) 627983344
luis@ <luis.gervaso at gmail.com>woorea.es
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