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What is Rally/xRally

Rally is tool & framework that allows one to write simple plugins and combine them in complex tests scenarios that allows to perform all kinds of testing!

The purpose of xrally image or how to use it

xrally image bases on the latest LTS release of ubuntu which is 18.04 at the moment. It provides raw xrally framework with only in-tree plugins (no pre-installed plugins for Kubernetes, OpenStack, etc).

You can use this image as a base image and extend it with installation of additional plugins:

# It is an example of Dockerfile for xrally/xrally_docker image. There are
#   only 2 critical lines: `FROM instruction` and the last line is a check
#   for rally user is used.
#
# Tags of the image are the same as releases of xRally/Rally
FROM xrally/xrally:2.1.0

# "rally" user (which is selected by-default) is owner of "/rally" directory,
#   so there is no need to call chown or switch the user
COPY . /rally/xrally_docker
WORKDIR /rally/xrally_docker

# to install package system-wide, we need to temporary switch to root user
USER root
RUN pip install .

# switch back to rally user for avoid permission conflicts
USER rally

or launch workloads based on in-tree plugins (see the next section for more details)

How to run xrally container

First of all, you need to pull the container. We suggest to use the last tagged version:

# pull the 2.1.0 image (the latest release at the point of writing the note)
$ docker pull xrally/xrally:2.1.0

WARNING: never attach folders and volumes to /rally inside the container. It can break everything.

The default configuration file is located at /etc/rally/rally.conf. You should not be aware of it. If you want to override some options, use /home/rally/.rally/rally.conf location instead. Rally does not load all configuration files, so the primary one will be used.

The default place for rally database file is /home/rally/.rally/rally.sqlite. To make the storage persistent across all container runs, you may want to use docker volumes or mount the directory.

  • use docker volumes. It is the easiest way. You just need to do something like:

    $ docker volume create --name rally_volume
$ docker run -v rally_volume:/home/rally/.rally xrally/xrally:2.1.0 env create --name "foo"

  • mount outer directory inside the container

    # you can create directory in whatever you want to place, but you
# may wish to make the data available for all users
$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/rally_container

# In order for the directory to be accessible by the Rally user
# (uid: 65500) inside the container, it must be accessible by UID
# 65500 *outside* the container as well, which is why it is created
# in ``/var/lib/rally_container``. Creating it in your home directory is
# only likely to work if your home directory has excessively open
# permissions (e.g., ``0755``), which is not recommended.
$ sudo chown 65500 /var/lib/rally_container

# As opposed to mounting docker image, you must initialize rally database*
$ docker run -v /var/lib/rally_container:/home/rally/.rally xrally/xrally db create

# And finally, you can start doing your things.*
$ docker run -v /var/lib/rally_container:/home/rally/.rally xrally/xrally env create --name "foo"

Have fun!

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