Open Infrastructure

Discussion: https://chat.ungleich.ch/ungleich/pl/o8y3tz8wo7ytje7o8nk9suw4qo¶

@Mondi Ravi @Ahmed Bilal ping

@Mondi Ravi I'd like you to implement asap "ordering" and "products" with ucloud

I think this is an important part that will also be used by other people who will be using ucloud in the end

I imagine it as follows:

We introduce a sub command ucloud order <product>

that command talks to the API, the API to etcd

the basic idea is that any product has two financial aspects:

one time cost (can be 0 ... x)

recurring cost (can be 0...x) and duration can be seconds to years - so we will need to store the unit with it

For a lot of products the pricing will actually be 0 / 0 per x, like reverse DNS

however treating everything somebody can book/buy, makes it easier to integrate

@Mondi Ravi I'd like you to implement the flow for buying an IPv6 VPN - adding products can for the moment "manual" or fiddling around directly with etcd

However the logic should work for "any" product / we should be able to easily hook new products into the system
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@Mondi Ravi some additional commands that might be helpful: ucloud list-products and ucloud register-payment-method

@Mondi Ravi do you have any questions?
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12:50 PM

hmm, you probably already told this before @Nico Schottelius but would like to have a reconfirmation from you -- "ucloud uses etcd/json for all data" right? So, we don't any other database or am I missing something ?
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12:50 PM

@Mondi Ravi I think we can go etcd only, beside you have a good reason against it

@Mondi Ravi Performance wise I don't think etcd will have a problem, but there will be some client logic arranging data, as compared to sql based
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12:55 PM

@Nico Schottelius ack .. I would need some introductory lessons into ucloud -- I've been following your discussions but do not know much about how can I kickstart my work
nico profile image
12:56 PM

@Mondi Ravi I think you can start almost clean plate, assuming you write python + probably flask ; however @Ahmed Bilal knows a lot of details and you can ping him in here

@Mondi Ravi payment has so far not been a topic in ucloud at all - so everything related to this is rather new
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12:57 PM

ack
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12:58 PM

@Mondi Ravi it would be cool if you could create a "dirty" prototype, being able to "order" an IPv6 VPN for 120 CHF/y; a plus if it is for free as long as you have booked any VM
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1:00 PM

ok

Hand over criteria¶

This task is done, if:

• I can order a VM and it is billed via credit card
• I can order a VPN and it is ...
  • for free, if I have an active VM
  • terminated, if I don't have an active VM and the VPN is for free
  • paid by credit card if not bound to an active product