[dev] Re: libcloud pricing

[Tomaz Muraus <to...@apache.org>]

I've opened a Github pull request with an initial implementation prototype
- https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/127.

Feedback is welcome, so if you care about this feature, please visit the
pull request and post your feedback and comments there.

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Tomaz Muraus <to...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've started to work on it soon after the meetup (
> https://github.com/Kami/libcloud/tree/pricing_file_changes), but I got
> distracted with some other things and never managed to finish it.
>
> The good thing is that is should be fairly easy and straight-forward to
> implement the tool which downloads the latest pricing data from our git
> repository and saved it into ~/libcloud/pricing.json.
>
> As far as getting the prices for Rackspace - like most of the providers,
> they don't have an API so we update those manually.
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Markos Gogoulos <mg...@mist.io>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to ask if there is any progress regarding
>> pricing, after the June 2013 libcloud meeting. Tomaz you mentioned a
>> command line tool for updating the file, is there anything available?
>> The prices for Rackspace are outdated (btw how do you get prices for
>> Rackspace? Manually after checking the page, or through API?). For ec2
>> there a nice tool at https://github.com/erans/ec2instancespricing that
>> could start as a base.
>>
>> A major problem hovwever is that prices are
>> related to image types besides the size, which means that ec2 us-west
>> charges 0.025 for linux, 0.085 for rhel and 0.035 for mswin :(
>>
>>
>> Libcloud does not take this into account and I wonder if this is
>> something scheduled to implement, and how hard would be a refactor.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for sharing any thoughts,
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Markos
>>
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