A collection of plugins for Rally framework designed for the OpenStack platform.
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Boris Pavlovic 254c0d68e8 Input task templates and task cmd cleanup
Implement task templates based on jinja2.

This allow us to pass as a task jinja2 template
and it's argument via arguments --task-args and
--task-args-file that should be dict in JSON or YAML
presentations.

So now command looks like:

rally task start <file> --task-args <template-args-json-or-yaml> \
  --task-args-file <file-with-args-in-json-yaml>

If both --task-args and --task-args-file then file dict is updated
by task args file.

Extend rally CI performance job. Now we can set template args
via file with name: ${TASK}_args.yaml

Bonus:
* Better message on InvalidTask format
* Remove redudant catch of "keyboardinterrupt"
  it should be implement in different way.
* Replace ' -> " in rally.cmd.commands.task
  and tests.unit.cmd.commands.task
* Imporve a bit CLI messages on rally task start
* Remove old plot2html command (it's enough deprecated)
* Improve test coverage of rally/cmd/commands/task
* Fix rally/cmd/commands/validate return 1 if bad format
* Write errors to stderr (in whole cmd/commands/task.py)

Change-Id: I7dadf2986bb10407865bc73bb2fb8c96a5162d9a
2015-01-15 16:29:34 +03:00
doc Refactor generic cleanup mechanism part 3 2014-11-14 16:44:00 +04:00
etc/rally Fix defect of 'separate log level for Rally' 2014-11-19 22:11:17 +02:00
rally Move JSON_SCHEMA to rally.consts 2015-01-09 09:09:15 +08:00
rally-jobs Input task templates and task cmd cleanup 2015-01-15 16:29:34 +03:00
tests Input task templates and task cmd cleanup 2015-01-15 16:29:34 +03:00
.coveragerc Omit openstack/common/ in test coverage reports 2014-01-16 00:53:49 +04:00
.gitignore Prepare documentation for readthedocs 2014-06-05 17:45:51 +03:00
.gitreview Add .gitreview file 2013-09-06 19:37:42 +04:00
Dockerfile Add Dockerfile 2014-12-24 14:22:19 +02:00
LICENSE Initial commit 2013-08-03 09:17:25 -07:00
README.rst Fixes typo error in rally/README.rst 2014-06-09 14:46:14 +05:30
requirements.txt Input task templates and task cmd cleanup 2015-01-15 16:29:34 +03:00
setup.cfg Fix bash completition setup 2014-10-13 23:24:24 +04:00
setup.py Fix bash completition setup 2014-10-13 23:24:24 +04:00
test-requirements.txt Updated from global requirements 2014-11-20 14:13:38 +00:00
tox.ini Move files to common lib(Part 2) 2014-12-24 10:21:32 +08:00

Rally

What is Rally

Rally is a Benchmark-as-a-Service project for OpenStack.

Rally is intended to provide the community with a benchmarking tool that is capable of performing specific, complicated and reproducible test cases on real deployment scenarios.

If you are here, you are probably familiar with OpenStack and you also know that it's a really huge ecosystem of cooperative services. When something fails, performs slowly or doesn't scale, it's really hard to answer different questions on "what", "why" and "where" has happened. Another reason why you could be here is that you would like to build an OpenStack CI/CD system that will allow you to improve SLA, performance and stability of OpenStack continuously.

The OpenStack QA team mostly works on CI/CD that ensures that new patches don't break some specific single node installation of OpenStack. On the other hand it's clear that such CI/CD is only an indication and does not cover all cases (e.g. if a cloud works well on a single node installation it doesn't mean that it will continue to do so on a 1k servers installation under high load as well). Rally aims to fix this and help us to answer the question "How does OpenStack work at scale?". To make it possible, we are going to automate and unify all steps that are required for benchmarking OpenStack at scale: multi-node OS deployment, verification, benchmarking & profiling.

Rally workflow can be visualized by the following diagram:

Rally Architecture

Architecture

In terms of software architecture, Rally is built of 4 main components:

  1. Server Providers - provide servers (virtual servers), with ssh access, in one L3 network.
  2. Deploy Engines - deploy OpenStack cloud on servers that are presented by Server Providers
  3. Verification - component that runs tempest (or another specific set of tests) against a deployed cloud, collects results & presents them in human readable form.
  4. Benchmark engine - allows to write parameterized benchmark scenarios & run them against the cloud.

Use Cases

There are 3 major high level Rally Use Cases:

Rally Use Cases

Typical cases where Rally aims to help are:

  • Automate measuring & profiling focused on how new code changes affect the OS performance;
  • Using Rally profiler to detect scaling & performance issues;
  • Investigate how different deployments affect the OS performance:
    • Find the set of suitable OpenStack deployment architectures;
    • Create deployment specifications for different loads (amount of controllers, swift nodes, etc.);
  • Automate the search for hardware best suited for particular OpenStack cloud;
  • Automate the production cloud specification generation:
    • Determine terminal loads for basic cloud operations: VM start & stop, Block Device create/destroy & various OpenStack API methods;
    • Check performance of basic cloud operations in case of different loads.

Wiki page:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Rally

Rally/HowTo:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Rally/HowTo

Launchpad page:

https://launchpad.net/rally

Code is hosted on github:

https://github.com/stackforge/rally

Trello board:

https://trello.com/b/DoD8aeZy/rally