[Openstack] Monitoring / Billing Architecture proposed

Endre Karlson endre.karlson at gmail.com
Sun Apr 22 22:26:48 UTC 2012


Why can't Dough / Kanyun be used for this?

Endre.

2012/4/23 Brian Schott <brian.schott at nimbisservices.com>

> The heart of nova-biling is built around accounts, resources, billing
> segments with a tariff and cost.  Not clear at my first review where/how
> these costs are set.
>
> Brian
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> On Apr 22, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Luis Gervaso wrote:
>
> I see this is an accounting system, a billing system needs things like
> promotional codes, vat, invoices ...
>
> I'm proposing the way the events should be orchestated
>
> Please, correct me, if i'm wrong
>
> Luis
>
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Atul Jha <Atul.Jha at csscorp.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Has anyone checked this
>> http://www.griddynamics.com/openstack/docs/nova-billing/quickstart.html
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>> What is Dough then compared to what you want to do ?
>>
>> 2012/4/22 Endre Karlson <endre.karlson at gmail.com<mailto:
>> endre.karlson at gmail.com>>
>> What is Dough then ?
>>
>>
>> 2012/4/22 Brian Schott <brian.schott at nimbisservices.com<mailto:
>> 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.
>>
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>> 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
>> <mailto:endre.karlson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> What about using the Dough project?
>>
>> Endre.
>>
>>
>> 2012/4/22 Endre Karlson <endre.karlson at gmail.com<mailto:
>> endre.karlson at gmail.com>>
>> What about using the Dough project ?
>>
>> Endre.
>>
>> 2012/4/22 Luis Gervaso <luis at woorea.es<mailto: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!
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