Bilean
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Overview
The mission for Bilean project is to provide a generic billing service for an OpenStack cloud, it implements trigger-type billing based on other OpenStack services' notification.
Features
The primary features of the Bilean service are listed below:
- Trigger-type billing: listens on AMQP and do bill when user has resource changes.
- Seconds-level billing: provides user high-accuracy and real-time balance.
- Plugin-based object rule management enabling the creation and management for any chargeable resources.
- Flexible policy management: a policy consists of several rules and enable to add/remove rule.
High-Level Architecture
An overall summary of Bilean logical architecture.
The main components of Bilean are:
- The bileanclient component is A CLI communicates with the bilean-api.
- The bilean-api component provides an OpenStack-native ReST API that processes API requests by sending them to the bilean-engine over RPC.
- The bilean-notification component monitors the message bus for data provided by other OpenStack components such as Nova, then converts notifications into billing resources and sends to bilean-engine over AMQP.
- The bilean-engine does the main billing work, operates all users, rules and policies.
Resources
- Projects on Launchpad
- Server: https://launchpad.net/bilean
- Code Repositories
- Server: https://github.com/lvdongbing/bilean
- Bug Tracking
- Bug List: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bilean
- Blueprints
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/bilean