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Guide to the Openbook Plugin version 1.1.0 for Fuel

This plugin extends Mirantis OpenStack functionality by adding Openbook customer onboarding, self-service, and cloud billing / charge-back services. Openbook is cloud management and reporting software that simplifies the tasks of planning, charging, and predicting capacity requirements for cloud services. Talligent gives the administrator and tenant real-time visibility of resources and accrued costs, as well as the ability to scale up or down according to budget and resource requirements.

For the Service Provider: Openbook by Talligent is the quickest path to monetizing OpenStack services. Openbook enables service providers to sell on demand cloud services based on the OpenStack platform, including dedicated instances, networks, storage, applications, virtual desktops, and other infrastructure elements or services. Services can be packaged the way you want: by tiers, metered and sold by the hour, delivered on-site or as part of a shared infrastructure. Cloud service providers can expand their customer reach and strengthen their existing relationship via resellers. Openbook natively supports reseller workflow with corresponding rate plans that support taxation, currency conversion, proration, discounts, and promotional codes independent from the master service provider.

For the Enterprise: Without visibility into the growth of cloud services by department, it is difficult to accurately predict how much new capacity to add, and when. Openbook is designed to quickly answer key management questions about the environment – largest tenants, host utilization, service growth, and project costs. Openbook has a robust ratings engine tuned to OpenStack and VMware clouds to support hybrid cloud reporting. Costs can be assigned by tenant, business unit, VP, project, or other cost center. Managers are automatically updated on their cloud costs as well as performance against budget. Detailed reports of growth trends, utilization, and seasonal patterns allow you to better plan for new capacity.

Problem description

Cloud owners need a tool to simplify the planning, charging, and predicting capacity requirements for cloud services.

Proposed change

Implement a Fuel plugin which will deploy Openbook and configure it to connect to a Mirantis OpenStack environment.

Alternatives

It also might be implemented as a Heat template.

Data model impact

None

REST API impact

Openbook gathers data by connecting to the OpenStack API endpoints.

Upgrade impact

Fuel currently supports upgrading of Fuel Master node, so it is necessary to install a new version of plugin which supports new Fuel release.

Security impact

None

Notifications impact

Openbook sends e-mails to project users with detailed monthly usage (invoices).

Other end user impact

Openbook plugin uses Fuel pluggable architecture. After it is installed, the user can enable the plugin on the Setting tab of the Fuel web UI and customize plugins settings.

Performance Impact

The hardware configuration (RAM, CPU, disk) required by this plugin depends on the size of your cloud, but a typical setup would at least require a dual-core server with 4GB of RAM and at least 500GB of disk.

Other deployer impact

None

Developer impact

None

Implementation

Assignee(s)

Primary assignee:

Other contributors:

Work Items

  • Create Fuel plugin bundle, which contains deployments scripts, puppet modules and metadata
  • Implement puppet manifests for deploying and configuring Openbook
  • Test Openbook plugin
  • Create Documentation

Dependencies

  • Fuel 7.0
  • Talligent Sharefile access

Testing

  • Prepare a test plan
  • Test the plugin by deploying environments with all Fuel deployment modes

Documentation Impact

  • Deployment Guide
  • User Guide (which features the plugin provides, how to use them in the deployed OpenStack environment)
  • Test Plan
  • Test Report