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Tempest Field Guide to Stress Tests
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Nova is a distributed, asynchronous system that is prone to race condition
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bugs. These bugs will not be easily found during
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functional testing but will be encountered by users in large deployments in a
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way that is hard to debug. The stress test tries to cause these bugs to happen
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in a more controlled environment.
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Environment
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This particular framework assumes your working Nova cluster understands Nova
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API 2.0. The stress tests can read the logs from the cluster. To enable this
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you have to provide the hostname to call 'nova-manage' and
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the private key and user name for ssh to the cluster in the
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[stress] section of tempest.conf. You also need to provide the
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location of the log files:
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target_logfiles = "regexp to all log files to be checked for errors"
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target_private_key_path = "private ssh key for controller and log file nodes"
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target_ssh_user = "username for controller and log file nodes"
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target_controller = "hostname or ip of controller node (for nova-manage)
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log_check_interval = "time between checking logs for errors (default 60s)"
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To activate logging on your console please make sure that you activate `use_stderr`
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in tempest.conf or use the default `logging.conf.sample` file.
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Running the sample test
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To test installation, do the following (from the tempest/stress directory):
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./run_stress.py etc/server-create-destroy-test.json -d 30
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This sample test tries to create a few VMs and kill a few VMs.
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Additional Tools
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Sometimes the tests don't finish, or there are failures. In these
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cases, you may want to clean out the nova cluster. We have provided
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some scripts to do this in the ``tools`` subdirectory.
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You can use the following script to destroy any keypairs,
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floating ips, and servers:
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tempest/stress/tools/cleanup.py
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