Mastering the Custom Meters Accelerator
The Custom Meter Accelerator is a production-ready solution, opensource project that enables marketplace partners to manage billing terms for Azure Marketplace Container offers.
This solution empowers partners to surpass the constraints of current billing features, allowing them to tailor their custom meters to fit their unique business requirements.
- Custom Meters Accelerator overview
- Custom Meters Accelerator technical overview
- Custom Meters Accelerator technical installation demo
- Custom Meters Accelerator integration with Partner Center demo
- Custom Meters Accelerator structure pricing model demo
- Purchase experience demo
- Custom Meters Accelerator ad-hoc meters demo
Custom Meters Accelerator overview#
This module introduces Custom Meters Accelerator. It covers the acceleratorβs features, why you want to use it, and how it supports flex billing models. If you are looking to publish an Azure container offer this video is for you.
- 00:00 β Overview
- 00:29 β Introduction
- 01:36 β What is the accelerator?
- 02:40 β Why to use the accelerator
- 03:45 β The main feature
- 04:58 β Summary
Custom Meters Accelerator technical overview#
This module covers the high-level architecture design of the accelerator. It also introduces the resources and roles needed to deploy it.
- 00:00 β Technical Overview
- 00:38 β Architecture overview
- 03:10 β Resources needed to deploy the accelerator?
- 05:05 β Summary
Custom Meters Accelerator technical installation demo#
This module introduces the typical installation experience for the Custom Meters Accelerator using Azure CloudShell. It then takes a tour to review the resources deployed after installation.
- 00:00 β Technical Overview
- 00:28 β Typical Installation
- 04:20 β Review deployed resources
- 06:28 β Summary
Custom Meters Accelerator integration with Partner Center demo#
Integrate the Custom Meters Accelerator with container offers and Partner Center.
- 00:00 β Overview
- 00:56 β How-To Integrate billing agent with Helm Chart
- 08:46 β Create CNAB package
- 11:20 β Upload CNAB package to container offer
- 11:57 β Add accelerator application registration to Partner Center
- 14:40 β Summary
Custom Meters Accelerator structure pricing model demo#
How to structure pricing models to meet billing requirements; like milestone billing and upfront yearly billing.
- 00:00 β Overview
- 00:32 β Custom Meters Accelerator admin site
- 05:22 β How-To structure price model
- 11:04 β Summary
Purchase experience demo#
See the customer purchase experience and how the accelerator registers the subscription and auto-creates scheduled tasks.
- 00:00 β Overview
- 00:31 β Custom purchase experience
- 04:09 β Review admin site subscription and scheduled tasks
- 05:22 β Summary
Custom Meters Accelerator ad-hoc meters demo#
Learn about different scenarios for ad-hoc meter submission and how to create schedule tasks as ad-hoc events using the scheduler feature.