Price Model
This price model is replaced with a new one - it’s here for reference until all current customers are migrated. See Pricing for the current one. |
APPUiO Managed billing is modeled like the Kubernetes distribution supplier model and is therefore different per flavor.
Units of billing
For each managed Kubernetes cluster, these units are counted:
- Cluster
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Kubernetes Control Plane (API Server, Controller Manager, etcd)
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Kubernetes Nodes running the Control Plane
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Shared base services (Monitoring, Backup, Rancher Management Server, …)
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Cluster provisioning and configuration
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Synfection (Project Syn Tools)
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Cluster system services like load balancer, cert manager and others
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- Compute
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Kubernetes Worker Nodes
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Supplier fees (licenses/subscriptions - if applicable)
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Unit per flavor:
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Red Hat OpenShift: vCPU
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Rancher: Node
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Usually there are no one-time setup costs, except for On Premise installations. As a rule of thumb we calculate with setup costs on such infrastructures with two times the monthly costs (it heavily depends on the infrastructure). |
How to find the price
To get the price for a managed Kubernetes cluster, choose:
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Including the amount of compute resources (number of vCPU or number and size of nodes)
With these three choices the price can be offered. Get in contact with sales@vshn.ch to get an offering.
Rating
The rating defines in which frequency units are counted and summed up. The rating of the units is per hour. |
Each unit in use is summed up per hour (maximum of last hour). Each month will end up with a slightly different sum as it adjusts by the amount of days (specifically: hours) a month has and of course how the usage changes in a month. Usage reporting to the supplier is done by averaging the usage per month.
SKUs
SKUs (Stock Keeping Unit) identify a particular item. They are composed like this:
<Managed|Unmanaged><Flavor><Provider><Service Level><Unit>
ManagedOpenShift4CloudscalePremiumCluster ManagedOpenShift4CloudscalePremiumCompute
ManagedRancherAWSStandardCluster ManagedRancherAWSStandardCompute
UnmanagedRancherAnyStandardCompute
Some SKUs are independent of the "Provider" part.
In this case the value is set to Any
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The SKU appears on the invoice to identify the line item. |
The Invoice

This is an example invoice for an APPUiO Managed OpenShift Cluster on cloudscale.ch with service level premium.
- Beschreibung
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This column includes the name of the cluster, the ID, the SKU (see above) and a hint about the billed unit.
- Menge
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The consumed amount of the billing unit.
- Preis/ME
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Price per unit as per the defined rating.
- Betrag
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Summed up total.
The above invoice example reads like that: The cluster consists of two billed units: Cluster and Compute (each unit is on it’s own line).
- First line
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"per Cluster/hour" means that this unit - the cluster - has been used for 672 hour (equals 28 days).
- Second line
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"per VCPU/hour" means that this unit - the compute - has a total of 32'256 hours. To get a better understanding of this number it can be divided be the amount of the first line (cluster/hour). In this example we see that the cluster has 48 VCPUs.
Hours | Days |
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672 |
28 |
696 |
29 |
720 |
30 |
744 |
31 |