Boston
May 8-11, 2017

Event Details

Please note: All times listed below are in Central Time Zone


Hands-On to Configure Your Cloud to be Able to Charge Your Users Using Official OpenStack Components

Selling the services provided by a Cloud is one of the essential aspect of the life of a Cloud Provider (both Public or Private). Thus being able to define the various prices and policies that needs to be apply needs to be done using some components at the root of the infrastructure.

In this workshop you'll have the chance to learn how access the new way to handle metrics in an OpenStack Cloud but also to use them for your pricing rules. ALl this using ONLY some official components !

This hands-on (you need to bring your laptop) will tackle the following aspects :

  • reminder of gnocchi and cloudkitty
  • installation of gnocchi
  • installation of cloudkitty
  • configure cloudkitty to use gnocchi
  • define a standard pricing policy using horizon

Please note:  session attendance does have a maximum capacity.  All admittance will be on a first come, first served basis.  Thank you for your understanding.   


What can I expect to learn?
  • reminder of gnocchi and cloudkitty
  • installation of gnocchi
  • installation of cloudkitty
  • configure cloudkitty to use gnocchi
  • define a standard pricing policy using horizon
Wednesday, May 10, 11:00am-12:30pm (3:00pm - 4:30pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Objectif Libre
My Name is Christophe Sauthier, a french guy living in the nice city of Toulouse. Living with my wife and father of 2 beautiful small guys (of course), I am also CEO of a company that I have funded 7 years ago Objectif Libre that only deals with Cloud Infrastructure. I am cloudkitty's PTL for Ocata and Pike cycles. I have been really involved in the Ubuntu community, being a developper... FULL PROFILE
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Julien is a Free Software hacker since 1998. He works as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, daily improving OpenStack, a project he has been working on since 2011. He leads the OpenStack Telemetry project as its PTL and contribute to common OpenStack code in Oslo. He seated at the OpenStack Technical Committee in 2013. FULL PROFILE
Cloud consultant
Maxime joined Objectif Libre in August, 2016. Curious and multi-tasks, he acquired strong skills in development and deployment of HPC and BigData architectures at Sogeti High Tech and iTrust. He particulary worked on Open Source technologies such as Docker, Apache Spark or ELK. FULL PROFILE