CloudOps Orchestration Service:Change the billing method of multiple ECS instances at a time

Background information

In some scenarios, you may need to change the billing method of multiple Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances from subscription to pay-as-you-go or from pay-as-you-go to subscription based on your business requirements. You can manually change the billing method of multiple ECS instances one by one. However, the manual operations are inefficient and prone to errors. This topic describes how to change the billing method of multiple ECS instances at a time by using CloudOps Orchestration Service (OOS). ECS supports the subscription and pay-as-you-go billing methods. For more information, see Subscription and Pay-as-you-go.

Prerequisites

1. For information about the prerequisites for changing the billing method of an ECS instance from subscription to pay-as-you-go, see Change the billing method of an instance from subscription to pay-as-you-go.

2. For information about the prerequisites for changing the billing method of an ECS instance from pay-as-you-go to subscription, see Change the billing method of an instance from pay-as-you-go to subscription.

Procedure

1. Go to the OOS console>Automated Task>Public Template page.

2. Enter ACS-ECS-BulkyModifyInstanceChargeType in the search box and click the Search icon. Click Create Execution for the ACS-ECS-BulkyModifyInstanceChargeType template.

3. On the Create Task page, configure the required parameters in the Basic Information step, and click Next Step: Parameter Settings.

4. In the Parameter Settings step, configure the following parameters:

   1. InstanceChargeType: the new billing method of the instances.

      1. Period: the subscription duration of the instances. This parameter is required if you select PrePaid as InstanceChargeType. If you select Week as PeriodUnit, the valid values of the Period parameter are 1 to 4. If you select Month as PeriodUnit, the valid values of the Period parameter are 1 to 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60.

      2. PeriodUnit: the time unit of the subscription duration. This parameter is required if you select PrePaid as InstanceChargeType.

   2. IncludeDataDisks: specifies whether to change the billing method of all data disks attached to the instances from pay-as-you-go to subscription. This parameter is required if you select PrePaid as InstanceChargeType.

   3. NetworkChargeType: the new billing method for network usage.

   4. RegionId: the ID of the region.

   5. TargetInstance: the instances for which you want to change the billing method.

   6. RateControl: optional. The concurrency configuration of the execution.

   7. OOSAssumeRole: optional. The Resource Access Management (RAM) role to be assumed by OOS.

5. Click Next Step: OK. In the OK step, click Create.

6. On the Task Execution Management page, find the created execution.

   • If the execution is in the Running state, the billing method of the specified ECS instances is being changed.

   • When the state of the execution changes to Success, the billing method of the specified ECS instances is changed. You can view the new billing method of the ECS instances on the Instance page of the ECS console.

Appendix

Public template ACS-ECS-BulkyModifyInstanceChargeType

FormatVersion: OOS-2019-06-01
Description:
  en: Bulky modify instance charge type
   
  name-en: ACS-ECS-BulkyModifyInstanceChargeType
   
  categories:
    - instance_manage
Parameters:
  regionId:
    Type: String
    Label:
      en: RegionId
       
    AssociationProperty: RegionId
    Default: '{{ ACS::RegionId }}'
  targets:
    Type: Json
    Label:
      en: TargetInstance
       
    AssociationProperty: Targets
    AssociationPropertyMetadata:
      ResourceType: ALIYUN::ECS::Instance
      RegionId: regionId
  instanceChargeType:
    Label:
      en: InstanceChargeType
       
    Type: String
    AllowedValues:
      - PostPaid
      - PrePaid
    Default: PostPaid
  periodUnit:
    Label:
      en: PeriodUnit
       
    Type: String
    AllowedValues:
      - Week
      - Month
    Default: Month
    AssociationPropertyMetadata:
      Visible:
        Condition:
          Fn::Not:
            Fn::Equals:
              - ${instanceChargeType}
              - PostPaid
  period:
    Description:
      en: The period of the instance
       
    Label:
      en: Period
       
    Type: Number
    Default: 1
    AssociationPropertyMetadata:
      Visible:
        Condition:
          Fn::Not:
            Fn::Equals:
              - ${instanceChargeType}
              - PostPaid
  includeDataDisks:
    Description:
      en: Specifies whether to change the billing method of all data disks attached to the instance from pay-as-you-go to subscription
       
    Label:
      en: IncludeDataDisks
       
    Type: Boolean
    Default: false
    AssociationPropertyMetadata:
      Visible:
        Condition:
          Fn::Not:
            Fn::Equals:
              - ${instanceChargeType}
              - PostPaid
  networkChargeType:
    Label:
      en: NetworkChargeType
       
    Type: String
    AllowedValues:
      - PayByBandwidth
      - PayByTraffic
      - ''
    Default: PayByTraffic
  rateControl:
    Label:
      en: RateControl
       
    Type: Json
    AssociationProperty: RateControl
    Default:
      Mode: Concurrency
      MaxErrors: 0
      Concurrency: 10
  OOSAssumeRole:
    Label:
      en: OOSAssumeRole
       
    Type: String
    Default: OOSServiceRole
RamRole: '{{ OOSAssumeRole }}'
Tasks:
  - Name: getInstance
    Description:
      en: Views the ECS instances
       
    Action: ACS::SelectTargets
    Properties:
      ResourceType: ALIYUN::ECS::Instance
      RegionId: '{{ regionId }}'
      Filters:
        - '{{ targets }}'
    Outputs:
      instanceIds:
        Type: List
        ValueSelector: Instances.Instance[].InstanceId
  - Name: modifyInstanceChargeType
    Description:
      en: Modify instance charge type
       
    Action: ACS::ECS::ModifyInstanceChargeType
    Properties:
      regionId: '{{ regionId }}'
      instanceId: '{{ ACS::TaskLoopItem }}'
      instanceChargeType: '{{ instanceChargeType }}'
      networkChargeType: '{{ networkChargeType }}'
      period: '{{ period }}'
      periodUnit: '{{ periodUnit }}'
      includeDataDisks: '{{ includeDataDisks }}'
    Loop:
      RateControl: '{{ rateControl }}'
      Items: '{{ getInstance.instanceIds }}'
Metadata:
  ALIYUN::OOS::Interface:
    ParameterGroups:
      - Parameters:
          - instanceChargeType
          - period
          - periodUnit
          - includeDataDisks
          - networkChargeType
        Label:
          default:
             
            en: Choose the parameter of instnace charge type
      - Parameters:
          - regionId
          - target
        Label:
          default:
             
            en: Select ECS Instances
      - Parameters:
          - rateControl
          - OOSAssumeRole
        Label:
          default:
             
            en: Control Options