[openstack-dev] [QA][LCOO] MEX-ops-meetup: OpenStack Extreme Testing

Ghanshyam Mann ghanshyammann at gmail.com
Mon Aug 14 11:41:32 UTC 2017


On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Boris Pavlovic <boris at pavlovic.me> wrote:
> Sam,
>
> Seems like a good plan and huge topic ;)
>
> I would as well suggest to take a look at the similar efforts in OpenStack:
> - Failure injection: https://github.com/openstack/os-faults

Yea, we are considering this lib, more details in this spec -
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/443504/

> - Rally Hooks Mechanism (to inject in rally scenarios failures):
> https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins/implementation/hook_and_trigger_plugins.html
>
>
> Best regards,
> Boris Pavlovic
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 2:35 AM, Sam P <sam47priya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> This is a follow up for OpenStack Extreme Testing session[1]
>> we did in MEX-ops-meetup.
>>
>> Quick intro for those who were not there:
>> In this work, we proposed to add new testing framework for openstack.
>> This framework will provides tool for create tests with destructive
>> scenarios which will check for High Availability, failover and
>> recovery of OpenStack cloud.
>> Please refer the link on top of the [1] for further details.
>>
>> Follow up:
>> We are planning periodic irc meeting and have an irc
>> channel for discussion. I will get back to you with those details soon.

Thanks SamP for updates.
Or another option is use qa channel itself as it is going to be under
qa projects. Similar to patrole etc.

Anyways I have added this in QA PTG agenda [1] to discuss the
architecture and how we can help on this to speedup this.

>>
>> At that session, we did not have time to discuss last 3 items,
>> Reference architectures
>>  We are discussing about the reference architecture in [2].
>>
>> What sort of failures do you see today in your environment?
>>  Currently we are considering, service failures, backend services (mq,
>> DB, etc.) failures,
>>  Network sw failures..etc. To begin with the implementation, we are
>> considering to start with
>>  service failures. Please let us know what failures are more frequent
>> in your environment.
>>
>> Emulation/Simulation mechanisms, etc.
>>  Rather than doing actual scale, load, or performance tests, we are
>> thinking to build a emulation/simulation mechanism
>> to get the predictions or result of how will openstack behave on such
>> situations.
>> This interesting idea was proposed by the Gautam and need more
>> discussion on this.
>>
>> Please let us know you questions or comments.
>>
>> Request to Mike Perez:
>>  We discussed about synergies with openstack assertion tags and other
>> efforts to do similar testing in openstack.
>>  Could you please give some info or pointer of previous discussions.
>>
>> [1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/MEX-ops-extreme-testing
>> [2]
>> https://openstack-lcoo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LCOO/pages/15477787/Extreme+Testing-Vision+Arch
>>
>> --- Regards,
>> Sampath
>>

..1 https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/qa-queens-ptg

-gmann


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