On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 23:05 +0200, Loic Dachary wrote: > On 05/01/2012 06:13 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > Hi Loic, > > > > On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 12:15 +0200, Loic Dachary wrote: > > > >> To prepare for the next meeting ( thursday 3rd, may 2012 > >> http://wiki.openstack.org/Meetings/MeteringAgenda ) I cleaned up and > >> reorganized the Metering blueprint so that it ( hopefully ) > >> incorporates all the information temporarily stored in the etherpad > >> ( http://etherpad.openstack.org/EfficientMetering revision 67 in case > >> it is vandalized ). > > I'm a bit late to the discussion, but some brief comments after reading > > up on what you guys have done so far: > > > > - big +1 on separating billing from metering; there's no need to > > conflate the two problems and doing it this way will allow for a > > bunch of different ideas to be tried around billing > > > > - I'd prefer to avoid adding a new node agents, so +1 on building on > > the notifications system > I would also prefer this option. I have a few concerns though: > > a) adding too many messages to the existing message queues > b) not all core components provide notifications > c) convincing all components to agree on a unified approach to metering > > Instead it might be more practical to implement node agents when > necessary to complete a first implementation. That is, taking advice > from core component developers and possibly run into problems as > opposed to convincing core component developers to adopt an approach > to metering that is not yet implemented anywhere.
I'd start with metering using the notifications which are already there. I think that will get us a long way. My impression is that the notifications system is intended to cover all billable usage in at least Nova and Glance. Cheers, Mark. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
