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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>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 The prices for Rackspace are outdated (btw how do you get prices for 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 >> > > >
