Public Cloud Cost Visualizer

Background

Cloud computing solutions are attractive to cloud customers because they offer the leasing of computing resources at relatively low costs.

Objectives

• Identify various cloud computing solutions and aggregate the factors used in their pricing models and billing units.

• Construct a front-end interface that provides visitors with useful visualizations between different cloud computing solutions.

• Construct a solid back-end with a well defined API.

Installing the Cloudwatch API (fresh install Ubuntu 16.04)

curl

• sudo apt-get upgrade
• sudo apt-get install curl

Docker

• curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
• sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
• sudo apt-get update
• apt-cache policy docker-ce
• sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce

Node-js

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install --yes nodejs
• sudo apt-get install --yes nodejs-legacy
• sudo apt-get install --yes npm

Starting the API

• navigate to "cloudwatch" folder
• bash ./runapi.sh

How to use

• see "cloudwatch/readme.md"

Installing the Cloudvisualizer

• install NodeJS
• navigate to the "product" directory
• run "npm install --production" to get all the dependencies
• start the NodeJS server by running "node app.js -a {IP address of cloudwatch API}"
• visit localhost:3000