[openstack-dev] [openstack-operators][Rally][HA-testing][multi-scenarios-load-gen] Proposal to change Rally input task format

Aleksandr Maretskiy amaretskiy at mirantis.com
Fri Feb 27 12:13:19 UTC 2015


Hi

Patch set #3 looks good for me (but I have a proposal about `description'
field).

Thanks!

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Mikhail Dubov <mdubov at mirantis.com> wrote:

> Hi Boris,
>
> nice job! I like how this new task format looks like. I have commented
> your patch with a couple of suggestions to make it even easier to
> understand.
>
> Best regards,
> Mikhail Dubov
>
> Engineering OPS
> Mirantis, Inc.
> E-Mail: mdubov at mirantis.com
> Skype: msdubov
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Boris Pavlovic <boris at pavlovic.me>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi stackers,
>>
>>
>> When we started Rally we have a just small idea to make some tool that
>> generates load and measures performance. During almost 2 years a lot of
>> changed in Rally, so now it's quite common testing framework that allows to
>> cover various topics like: stress, load, volume, performance, negative,
>> functional testing. Since the begging we have idea of "scenario" centric
>> approach, where scenario method that is called multiple times
>> simultaneously to generate load and duration of it is collected.
>>
>> This is huge limitation that doesn't allow us to easily generate real
>> life load. (e.g. loading simultaneously few components) or HA testing
>> (where we need during the load generation to disable/kill process, reboot
>> or power off physical nodes). To make this possible we should just run
>> multiple scenarios in parallel, but this change will require change in
>> input task format.
>>
>> I made proposal of new Rally task input format in this patch:
>>
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/159065/3/specs/new_rally_input_task_format.yaml
>>
>> Please review it. Let's try to resolve all UX issues before starting
>> working on it.
>>
>> P.S. I hope this will be the last big change in Rally input task format..
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Boris Pavlovic
>>
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