The Openbook Plugin

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.

Requirements

Requirement	Version/Comment
Mirantis OpenStack compatility	8.0
Distribution Supported	Ubuntu
Talligent Sharefile access	Contact openbook@talligent.com for access