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     <p>Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member <a href="https://github.com/micafer">Miguel Caballer</a>!</p>

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 them focusing on our OpenStack drivers.</p>

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   <p>Miguel Caballer is part of the Grid and High Performance Computing group of
 UPV since 2001. He is the lead developer of the Infrastructure Manager (IM),
 a tool that deploys complex and customized virtual infrastructures on IaaS
 Cloud deployments. He has participated in different research projects about
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 the best option to connect with different cloud back-ends using a single
 library and using the same basic set of functions calls. It has improved a
 lot in the last years adding extra functionality for each connector that makes
 it a really good alternative to native libraries. My main contributions has been
 mainly related with the OpenStack driver, one of the most user cloud providers
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 with each Libcloud release just before publishing a new release.</p>

 <p>The problem is that the pricing data can change often, so updating it only once
 every couple of months as part of a Libcloud release is not sufficient.</p>

 <p>To solve for that problem, we now update and publish pricing.json file which
 includes latest retrieved pricing data for various providers on a daily basis.</p>

 <p>It’s worth noting that we can’t guarantee 100% accuracy of this data so you
 should only use this data as estimate and you should never rely solely on
 Libcloud pricing data.</p>

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 <p>We would like to extend special thanks to <a href="https://github.com/Eis-D-Z">Eis D. Zaster</a> who has
 contributed new scraping scripts for multiple providers and also made
 various improvements and fixes to the existing scraping scripts.</p>

 <p>In addition to that, we would like to thank <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-promotional-credits-open-source-projects/">Amazon Web Services</a> which
 granted us free credits for their EC2 and S3 service which we plan to use
 for hosting this pricing file, end to end tests and more.</p>


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	UPV since 2001. He is the lead developer of the Infrastructure Manager (IM),
	a tool that deploys complex and customized virtual infrastructures on IaaS
	Cloud deployments. He has participated in different research projects about
	the application of Grid and Cloud computing techniques to several areas of
	engineering. Other fields of interest include green computing.</p>
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	the best option to connect with different cloud back-ends using a single
	library and using the same basic set of functions calls. It has improved a
	lot in the last years adding extra functionality for each connector that makes
	it a really good alternative to native libraries. My main contributions has been
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	by the IM tool. I’m very proud to be an Apache Libcloud team member and I will
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	<span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus on Aug 02, 2020</span>

	<div class="post-content">
	<p>Recently we added a new job to our CI / CD which runs daily and retrieves latest
	pricing data for various providers and publishes pricing.json file which can be
	used by Libcloud to a public read-only S3 bucket.</p>

	<p>More information on where to download it and how to use this file can be found in
	<a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/compute/pricing.html#downloading-latest-pricing-data-from-an-s3-bucket">our documentation</a>.</p>

	<h2 id="background-context">Background, Context</h2>

	<p>In the past, we ran the script which updates pricing.json file which is bundled
	with each Libcloud release just before publishing a new release.</p>

	<p>The problem is that the pricing data can change often, so updating it only once
	every couple of months as part of a Libcloud release is not sufficient.</p>

	<p>To solve for that problem, we now update and publish pricing.json file which
	includes latest retrieved pricing data for various providers on a daily basis.</p>

	<p>It’s worth noting that we can’t guarantee 100% accuracy of this data so you
	should only use this data as estimate and you should never rely solely on
	Libcloud pricing data.</p>

	<h2 id="thanks">Thanks</h2>

	<p>We would like to extend special thanks to <a href="https://github.com/Eis-D-Z">Eis D. Zaster</a> who has
	contributed new scraping scripts for multiple providers and also made
	various improvements and fixes to the existing scraping scripts.</p>

	<p>In addition to that, we would like to thank <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-promotional-credits-open-source-projects/">Amazon Web Services</a> which
	granted us free credits for their EC2 and S3 service which we plan to use
	for hosting this pricing file, end to end tests and more.</p>


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