Selling and provisioning of OpenStack tenants
Cloudesire platform enables selling of OpenStack tenants via a native API integration.
A special product on the marketplace is available for purchase that automatically provision on OpenStack a new user with a dedicated project.
To achieve this, administrator credentials of an OpenStack cloud is necessary to be able to dynamically create new users and projects.
Both prepaid and pay-as-you-go pricing models are supported.
Switching between different pricing models on an active subscription is not yet supported.
Prepaid pricing model
In prepaid plans, customer selects how many CPU cores, GB of memory, GB of disk space and IP addresses want to buy. In this case, project quotas are automatically setup to ensure that the customer will not request too many resources.
Pay-as-you-go pricing model
In pay-as-you-go plans, customer is billed at the end of the billing period by using the automatically gathered metrics for each of the billed resources (CPU cores, GB of memory, GB of disk space, IP addresses).
Example
An example OpenStack VDC product is available on our demo marketplace.