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CloudKitty
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OpenStack Rating and Usage Reporter
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Rating as a Service component
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Goal
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The goal of this project is to automate the extraction of the metrics from
ceilometer, map them to rating informations and generate reports.
CloudKitty aims at filling the gap between metrics collection systems like
ceilometer and a billing system.
Every metrics are collected, aggregated and processed through different rating
modules. You can then query CloudKitty's storage to retrieve processed data and
easily generate reports.
Most parts of CloudKitty are modular so you can easily extend the base code to
address your particular use case.
You can find more information on its architecture in the documentation,
`architecture section`_.
Status
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This project is **highly** work in progress. Most of the work that we've done was
targeted to quickly create a POC. We are now aiming towards the creation of an
OpenStack module. Changes needed to attain our goal are huge, that's why the
time between commits can be long.
CloudKitty has been successfully deployed in production on different OpenStack
systems.
Roadmap
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* Create a project API to manage the configuration of rating modules and
request informations.
* Every rating module should be able to expose its own API.
* Move from importutils to stevedore.
* Scheduling of rating calculations
* Better collection of ceilometer metrics (Maybe Gnocchi)
* Global code improvement
You can find the latest documentation on readthedocs_.
In a possible future :
Contributing
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* Spawning of instances to do the calculations
We are welcoming new contributors, if you've got new ideas, suggestions or want
to contribute contact us.
You can reach us thought IRC (#cloudkitty @freenode.net), or on the official
OpenStack mailing list openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org.
A launchpad_ is available if you need to report bugs.
Additional components
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We're providing an OpenStack dashboard (Horizon) integration, you can find the
files in the cloudkitty-dashboard_ repository.
A CLI is available too in the python-cloudkittyclient_ repository.
Trying it
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CloudKitty can be deployed with devstack, more information can be found in the
`devstack section`_ of the documentation.
Deploying it in production
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CloudKitty can be deployed in production on OpenStack Kilo environments, for
more information check the `installation section`_ of the documentation. Due to
oslo libraires new namespace backward compatibility is not possible. If you
want to install it on an older system, use a virtualenv.
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image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/cloudkitty/badge/?version=latest
:target: http://cloudkitty.readthedocs.org
:alt: Documentation Status
.. _readthedocs: http://cloudkitty.readthedocs.org
.. _launchpad: https://launchpad.net/cloudkitty
.. _python-cloudkittyclient: https://github.com/stackforge/python-cloudkittyclient
.. _cloudkitty-dashboard: https://github.com/stackforge/cloudkitty-dashboard
.. _architecture section: https://cloudkitty.readthedocs.org/en/latest/arch.html
.. _devstack section: https://cloudkitty.readthedocs.org/en/latest/devstack.html
.. _installation section: https://cloudkitty.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html