We are pleased to announce that IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery now supports consolidated billing, easing account management for large enterprises and potentially reducing costs.
Why Consolidate Billing?
By default, Continuous Delivery service instances report usage independently of each other. If you have organized your toolchains into multiple resource groups in a standalone IBM Cloud account or across several IBM Cloud accounts in an enterprise, then users of your toolchains may be reported as authorized users multiple times from corresponding multiple instances of the Continuous Delivery service.
With the new consolidated billing feature, the Continuous Delivery (CD) service Professional plan now supports consolidated billing of authorized users within enterprise account hierarchies. This feature ensures that authorized user emails are counted and billed only once across all CD service instances in your enterprise and in a region, rather than being counted and billed separately for each instance.
Enabling Consolidated Billing
You can enable the consolidated billing feature of a Continuous Delivery service instance with the Professional plan in an enterprise account to cause the service to consolidate the authorized users from all Continuous Delivery service instances in your enterprise hierarchy, within a region into one list, ensuring that an authorized user email will only be counted and billed for once within your enterprise and region.
To enable consolidated billing:
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Login to IBM Cloud and select the enterprise account within which you want to enable consolidated billing.
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Navigate to the resource list, and select the Continuous Delivery Service instance to which you want to consolidate billing.
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Click on the instance name, and navigate to Manage → Consolidated billing
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Click Enable consolidated billing.
When consolidated billing is enabled on a service instance in the enterprise account, that instance takes over responsibility for reporting the number of authorized users on behalf of all service instances in the same region and in the enterprise hierarchy, including those in all child accounts, and including any other instances in other resource groups in the enterprise account.
The consolidated billing feature is available with the Continuous Delivery Professional plan only. Consolidation occurs only within the region containing the Continuous Delivery service instance which has the consolidated billing feature enabled. Consolidated billing requires an enterprise account hierarchy. You cannot enable consolidated billing across resource groups in a standalone account.
Learn more
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To learn more about consolidated billing, how it works, and how to enable it, see Plan limitations and usage / Consolidated billing in the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery product guide.
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If you have any additional questions on the consolidated billing feature, please reach out to the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery development team by joining us on Slack.
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Learn more about IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery.
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Access the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery documentation. [CB: removed “test.” from the hyperlink]
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Get started with IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery.