Thanks a lot for this clear answer Andrey !

All the best,

From: Andriy Kurilin <andr.kurilin@gmail.com>
Sent: dimanche, 6 août 2023 20:38
To: Taltavull Jean-François <jean-francois.taltavull@elca.ch>
Cc: openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [RALLY] Running Rally tasks and Tempest tests in multi-user context

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чт, 3 авг. 2023 г. в 18:22, Taltavull Jean-François <jean-francois.taltavull@elca.ch>:

Hi openstack-discuss,

I’m currently using Rally v3.4.0 to test our OpenStack Zed platform.

Rally has been deployed on a dedicated virtual machine and Rally tasks and Tempest tests, launched on this machine by Rundeck, run pretty well.

Now, I wish every OpenStack team member could launch whatever scenario or test he wants, when he wants, for example after having applied a service configuration change on the staging platform.

And a question is arising: can several users launch different Rally scenarios or Tempest tests at the same time, from their own Linux account/environment, using the same Rally, the one which is deployed on the dedicated machine ?

Rally Task framework itself does not have limitations for parallel executions.

But it is worth considering a few nuances:

- Database backend. Rally is configured to use SQLite by default. It does not support simultaneous write operations, which can be an issue for using a dedicated rally instance for running parallel tasks. Switching to MySQL/Postgres should not have such an issue.

- File descriptions. If you run too many parallel tasks with a huge number of parallel iterations, you may face default linux limitation of open file descriptors.

I never ran Tempest simultaneously for the same cloud, so I cannot guarantee that there are no bugs, but it should be ok in general.

Thanks and best regards,

Jean-Francois

Best regards,
Andrey Kurilin.