[Openstack] Billing in Openstack

Nick Barcet nick.barcet at canonical.com
Thu Aug 30 12:50:25 UTC 2012


On 08/30/2012 03:40 AM, Emilien Macchi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You should read Ceilometer Project [1] and try it into DevStack directly
> in editing localrc before to run devstack and add :
> 
> enable_service ceilometer-acompute,ceilometer-acentral, ceilometer-collector
> 
> Enjoy !
> 
> 
> [1] http://wiki.openstack.org/EfficientMetering

If fully second Emilien's suggestions.  As a quick note, I'd like to
level set your expectation as Ceilometer is metering tool, not a full
billing tool.  A full billing solution needs 3 components:

- Metering: to know what has happened on the cloud
- Rating: which transforms what has happened into price to bill (line items)
- Billing: which accumulates line items and create a bill to send to
customer and collect money

Which means that you will still need component 2 and 3 to do billing
after you have deployed Ceilometer.

Hope this helps.
Nick


> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Rajesh Avula <avula.rajesh07 at gmail.com
> <mailto:avula.rajesh07 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Greetings...!!
> 
>     I would like to generate billing of used resources (CPU, RAM, Disk)
>     in openstack. Below are the details of my setup (Please ask me for
>     more details if require regarding setup)
> 
>     Mainly I have used 2 system to make my setup, below are the details...
> 
>     1. *On First Laptop *(Dell - Latitude, with 4 GB RAM, Intel Core i5
>     vpro Processor, 500 GB Hard disk) I have installed a *virtual
>     machine with CentOS (6.2)* on *Xenserver (6.0.2)* and on that
>     *virtual machine I installed openstack* by following below links and
>     some other links from google
> 
>     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_Nova
>     http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServer
> 
>     2. *On Second Laptop* (same as above configuration) I have installed
>     *openfiler and made NFS and iSCSI targets* for glance, swift, and
>     for instances.
> 
>     3. For network I am using BELKIN wireless adapter 5 port L2-switch)
> 
>     I am able to launch Instances from AMI's, instances are getting IP
>     addresses, able to create volumes and attaching to the instances.
> 
>     All I need is, Is there any possibility in openstack where I can
>     define the values / prices for the resources so that users will get
>     the bills accordingly ?
> 
>     Below are the packages installed in my setup for dashboard
>     python-django-horizon-2012.1.1-1.el6.noarch
>     openstack-dashboard-2012.1.1-1.el6.noarch
> 
>     Is there any other packages should be installed to get billing
>     option on dashboard?
>     Any specific configuration required ?
> 
>     Please let me know how to get billing information of the used /
>     using resources.
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Thanks & Regards,
>     Rajesh Avula
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