Rally: Testing &
Benchmarking OpenStack
OpenStack Meetup Noida
13/01/2015
Vishal Yadav
NEC Technologies India Ltd.

Agenda
• Rally: Why (Motivation for use)
• Rally: What
• Rally: How (Features and Design)
• Demo
• Reference
• Questions
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Rally: Why (Motivation for Use)
• Ensure that OpenStack works at scale.
• Detect performance issues quickly and improve OpenStack
scalability.
• Running tempest tests for OpenStack multi-deployment without
tempest set-up overhead.
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Rally: What
• Rally is a community-based project that allows OpenStack
developers and operators to get relevant and repeatable
benchmarking data of how their cloud operates at scale.
• Wiki https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Rally
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Rally: How (Features and Design)
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Demo
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Demo 1: Install Rally
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Demo 2: Add your cloud to rally
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Demo 3: Check cloud
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Demo 4: Prepare tempest for the cloud
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Demo 5: Run tempest tests
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Demo 6: List all tempest results
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Demo 7: Show information for 1 execution
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Demo 7: Show information for 1 execution (cont...)
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Demo 8: Execute Scenario Test (boot & delete)
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Demo 9: Scenario Test Result (boot & delete)
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Demo 10: Benchmark Report (Overview)
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Demo 10: Benchmark Report (Overview)
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Demo 11: Benchmark Report (Detailed)
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Demo 12: Benchmark Report (Input Task)
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Reference
• Rally Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Rally
• http://www.slideshare.net/mirantis/rally-benchmarkingatscale
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