Release 3.0.0

3.0.0

Released on April 13, 2015

• Project name changed from Ralph Pricing to Ralph Scrooge
• Redesigned architecure comparing to (old) ralph_pricing
  • Calculation based on services and environments instead of ventures
  • Base PricingObject model to simplify adding new types of chared objects (ex. Database, Virtual server, Tenant)
  • Costs are (re)calculated and stored in database
  • Many performance improvements
• New client GUI written in AngularJS
  • Components: preview of historical objects (server, virtual, database etc) per service for single day
  • Costs card: summary of service costs in single month
  • Allocations: add service or team specific costs and manage it's distribution to other services
  • Costs: detailed costs for each pricing object
• New charging types:
  • Dynamic extra costs: specify cost (like Extra cost) and a dynamic way of it's distribution (ex. cores count)
• New collect plugins:
  • Collecting Database, VIP, Tenant info from Ralph
  • OpenStack SimpleUsage plugin
  • OpenStack Ceilometer MongoDB plugin
  • Support plugins (from Ralph Assets)
• New permissions:
  • Every (active) Ralph user has access to client part (components, allocation, cost card) for services which he owns
  • Admin (ralph_scrooge group) has access to whole system