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Cool, Rally is really helpful for performance benchmarking and optimizing for our openstack cloud.

On Jul 22, 2014, at 5:53, Boris Pavlovic <boris at pavlovic.me> wrote:

> Hi Stackers and TC,
> 
> The Rally contributor team would like to propose a new OpenStack program
> with a mission to provide scalability and performance benchmarking, and
> code profiling tools for OpenStack components.
> 
> We feel we've achieved a critical mass in the Rally project, with an
> active, diverse contributor team. The Rally project will be the initial
> project in a new proposed "Performance and Scalability" program.
> 
> Below, the details on our proposed new program.
> 
> Thanks for your consideration,
> Boris
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/108502/
> 
> 
> Official Name
> =============
> 
> Performance and Scalability
> 
> Codename
> ========
> 
> Rally
> 
> Scope
> =====
> 
> Scalability benchmarking, performance analysis, and profiling of
> OpenStack components and workloads
> 
> Mission
> =======
> 
> To increase the scalability and performance of OpenStack clouds by:
> 
> * defining standard benchmarks
> * sharing performance data between operators and developers
> * providing transparency of code paths through profiling tools
> 
> Maturity
> ========
> 
> * Meeting logs http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/rally/2014/
> * IRC channel: #openstack-rally
> * Rally performance jobs are in (Cinder, Glance, Keystone & Neutron)
> check pipelines.
> * > 950 commits over last 10 months
> * Large, diverse contributor community
>  * http://stackalytics.com/?release=juno&metric=commits&project_type=All&module=rally
>  * http://stackalytics.com/report/contribution/rally/180
> 
> * Non official lead of project is Boris Pavlovic
>  * Official election In progress.
> 
> Deliverables
> ============
> 
> Critical deliverables in the Juno cycle are:
> 
> * extending Rally Benchmark framework to cover all use cases that are
> required by all OpenStack projects
> * integrating OSprofiler in all core projects
> * increasing functional & unit testing coverage of Rally.
> 
> Discussion
> ==========
> 
> One of the major goals of Rally is to make it simple to share results of
> standardized benchmarks and experiments between operators and
> developers. When an operator needs to verify certain performance
> indicators meet some service level agreement, he will be able to run
> benchmarks (from Rally) and share with the developer community the
> results along with his OpenStack configuration. These benchmark results
> will assist developers in diagnosing particular performance and
> scalability problems experienced with the operator's configuration.
> 
> Another interesting area is Rally & the OpenStack CI process. Currently,
> working on performance issues upstream tends to be a more social than
> technical process. We can use Rally in the upstream gates to identify
> performance regressions and measure improvement in scalability over
> time. The use of Rally in the upstream gates will allow a more rigorous,
> scientific approach to performance analysis. In the case of an
> integrated OSprofiler, it will be possible to get detailed information
> about API call flows (e.g. duration of API calls in different services).
> 
> 
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