Cloud Foundry Summit 2016

As Cloud Foundry (CF) matures into the dominant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) the focus of development has been shifting towards re-engineering components for scale and stability as well as increasingly towards adding components that allows it to be used in commercial environments.

CF-Abacus is a metering and aggregation engine extracted from IBM's Bluemix. It enables the aggregation and metering (flexible pricing) of various usage data (service, apps, and buildpacks) so that the resulting output can be presented to end users and used for subsequent billing. For instance, a user with a few apps connected to several services can see the cost breakdown for each app, each service, over time and get projection of their costs as well.

In this talk we will cover briefly how CF-Abacus came into fruition, we will describe its micro-services architecture, detail where it is going, and how you can use it into your own (private or public) CF environments.