Access location of PaaS resource

[berwaluk]

We are currently in the process of developing a Prometheus exporter to make our Gridscale cloud costs transparent. In the context of this exporter, among others, we expose the running PaaS resources as metrics by periodically scraping the Gridscale API. To be able to determine the cost of a resource, as far as I am aware, we need the products it's using via the product number and in which location it is running. Usages can be retrieved via the usage API, but, in contrast to other resource types, such as servers, PaaS resources do not seem to expose a location attribute via the API.

Is it viable to indirectly determine the location of the PaaS resource via the connected network, or is there another mechanism to retrieve this information from the API?

[fabiante]

AFAIK PaaS services will always be part of the same location that their network is part of.

The broader reason for this is of course that PaaS services belong to a single project which in turn is locked to a single localtion.

Does that help?