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diff --git a/docs/release/configguide/a_b_config_guide.rst b/docs/release/configguide/a_b_config_guide.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a0963f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/release/configguide/a_b_config_guide.rst @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 +.. SPDX-License-Identifier CC-BY-4.0 +.. (c) Authors of Clover + +.. _a_b_config_guide: + +========================================= +A-B Sample Validation Configuration Guide +========================================= + +Istio supports the ability to have multiple service versions, which allows for use-cases +such as staging services and moving to production when newer versions are vetted. Multiple variants +of a service can run in parallel and Istio can perform request routing between the variants +using configured route rules. + +This script sets up route rules between the two load balancer versions (http-lb-v1/v2) in the +Service Delivery Controller (SDC) sample to modify the ratio of incoming request traffic to send +to each. It then employs the overall request/response times obtained from the tracing module to +validate the response time performance of v2 is within 120% of v1. The 120% condition can be +configured in an input configuration yaml. + +Using the sample script +======================= + +Prerequisites +------------- + +The following assumptions must be met before executing the sample script: + + * The prerequisites stipulated at :ref:`sdc_prerequisites` are considered. The use of flannel + as the CNI network add-on is required. + * Ensure the SDC sample is deployed. The easiest way to accomplish this is using the Clover + container outlined in the SDC guide at :ref:`sdc_deploy_container`. + * Deploy Jaeger tracing and determine the tracing port. The instructions in the SDC guide + at :ref:`sdc_view_container` can be used for this purpose. The exposed tracing port is + required as the ``-p`` argument in the script. + * The http-lb-v2 in the SDC sample is load balancing across clover-server4/5 using the + command outlined at :ref:`sdc_modify_lb` + * Ensure Istio is in the path by downloading Istio separately into a directory with the + commands below: + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ curl -L https://github.com/istio/istio/releases/download/1.0.0/istio-1.0.0-linux.tar.gz | tar xz + $ cd istio-1.0.0 + $ export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH + +Environment setup +------------------ + +First setup the environment using the Clover source with the following commands: + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ git clone https://gerrit.opnfv.org/gerrit/clover + $ cd clover + $ git checkout stable/gambia + $ pip install . + $ cd clover + +Edit the input configuration yaml file located at ``test/yaml/fraser_a_b_test.yaml`` +and modify the value under the ``params`` key with the istio-ingress port obtained using +the SDC guide at :ref:`sdc_ingress_port`. The example of port 32580 is shown below. + +.. code-block:: bash + + traffic-test: + name: lb-test.sh + params: + - 10.244.0.1 + - 32580 + +Execute toplevel script +----------------------- + +To execute the script, use the command: + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ python test/fraser_a_b_test.py -t test/yaml/fraser_a_b_test.yaml -p 30869 + +The value to the argument ``-p`` must be the tracing port exposed outside of the Kubernetes +cluster. + +Results +------- + +The script uses ``wget`` to make twenty HTTP GET requests to the SDC sample. It fetches the +total response time for the service mesh to respond to requests using the Clover tracing module +and calculates and average. The script will pass if performance of http-lb-v2 has response times +within 120% of v1 and fail otherwise. + +Troubleshooting +=============== + +If the script fails because a route rule with the same name exists from a +previous test run, use the following command to delete the rule before executing the +sample script again:: + + istioctl -n default delete routerules lb-default + |