Summary

In this chapter, we have looked at performance analysis in an existing and operating OpenStack environment. The chapter puts an additional requirement under the scope that must exist in the life cycle of a private cloud environment. We have uncovered a straightforward way to exercise benchmarking and load tests using Rally. As this is becoming one of the OpenStack incubated projects, you should understand the capabilities of this tool by performing reproducible test suite cases and scenarios. Rally has become an official solution for OpenStack cloud operators to trace scalability and detect performance anomalies at an early stage. Although the OpenStack community has developed hundreds of scenarios and tasks included in Rally out of the box, this chapter has demonstrated another hallmark of Rally as a pluggable platform. We have created our own sample plugin using Python...