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-.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
-.. License.
-.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
-.. (c) 2016 Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd and others
-
-============
-Architecture
-============
-
-Abstract
-========
-This chapter describes the yardstick framework software architecture. we will introduce it from Use-Case View,
-Logical View, Process View and Deployment View. More technical details will be introduced in this chapter.
-
-Overview
-========
-
-Architecture overview
----------------------
-Yardstick is mainly written in Python, and test configurations are made
-in YAML. Documentation is written in reStructuredText format, i.e. .rst
-files. Yardstick is inspired by Rally. Yardstick is intended to run on a
-computer with access and credentials to a cloud. The test case is described
-in a configuration file given as an argument.
-
-How it works: the benchmark task configuration file is parsed and converted into
-an internal model. The context part of the model is converted into a Heat
-template and deployed into a stack. Each scenario is run using a runner, either
-serially or in parallel. Each runner runs in its own subprocess executing
-commands in a VM using SSH. The output of each scenario is written as json
-records to a file or influxdb or http server, we use influxdb as the backend,
-the test result will be shown with grafana.
-
-
-Concept
--------
-**Benchmark** - assess the relative performance of something
-
-**Benchmark** configuration file - describes a single test case in yaml format
-
-**Context** - The set of Cloud resources used by a scenario, such as user
-names, image names, affinity rules and network configurations. A context is
-converted into a simplified Heat template, which is used to deploy onto the
-Openstack environment.
-
-**Data** - Output produced by running a benchmark, written to a file in json format
-
-**Runner** - Logic that determines how a test scenario is run and reported, for
-example the number of test iterations, input value stepping and test duration.
-Predefined runner types exist for re-usage, see `Runner types`_.
-
-**Scenario** - Type/class of measurement for example Ping, Pktgen, (Iperf, LmBench, ...)
-
-**SLA** - Relates to what result boundary a test case must meet to pass. For
-example a latency limit, amount or ratio of lost packets and so on. Action
-based on :term:`SLA` can be configured, either just to log (monitor) or to stop
-further testing (assert). The :term:`SLA` criteria is set in the benchmark
-configuration file and evaluated by the runner.
-
-
-Runner types
-------------
-
-There exists several predefined runner types to choose between when designing
-a test scenario:
-
-**Arithmetic:**
-Every test run arithmetically steps the specified input value(s) in the
-test scenario, adding a value to the previous input value. It is also possible
-to combine several input values for the same test case in different
-combinations.
-
-Snippet of an Arithmetic runner configuration:
-::
-
-
- runner:
- type: Arithmetic
- iterators:
- -
- name: stride
- start: 64
- stop: 128
- step: 64
-
-**Duration:**
-The test runs for a specific period of time before completed.
-
-Snippet of a Duration runner configuration:
-::
-
-
- runner:
- type: Duration
- duration: 30
-
-**Sequence:**
-The test changes a specified input value to the scenario. The input values
-to the sequence are specified in a list in the benchmark configuration file.
-
-Snippet of a Sequence runner configuration:
-::
-
-
- runner:
- type: Sequence
- scenario_option_name: packetsize
- sequence:
- - 100
- - 200
- - 250
-
-
-**Iteration:**
-Tests are run a specified number of times before completed.
-
-Snippet of an Iteration runner configuration:
-::
-
-
- runner:
- type: Iteration
- iterations: 2
-
-
-
-
-Use-Case View
-=============
-Yardstick Use-Case View shows two kinds of users. One is the Tester who will
-do testing in cloud, the other is the User who is more concerned with test result
-and result analyses.
-
-For testers, they will run a single test case or test case suite to verify
-infrastructure compliance or bencnmark their own infrastructure performance.
-Test result will be stored by dispatcher module, three kinds of store method
-(file, influxdb and http) can be configured. The detail information of
-scenarios and runners can be queried with CLI by testers.
-
-For users, they would check test result with four ways.
-
-If dispatcher module is configured as file(default), there are two ways to
-check test result. One is to get result from yardstick.out ( default path:
-/tmp/yardstick.out), the other is to get plot of test result, it will be shown
-if users execute command "yardstick-plot".
-
-If dispatcher module is configured as influxdb, users will check test
-result on Grafana which is most commonly used for visualizing time series data.
-
-If dispatcher module is configured as http, users will check test result
-on OPNFV testing dashboard which use MongoDB as backend.
-
-.. image:: images/Use_case.png
- :width: 800px
- :alt: Yardstick Use-Case View
-
-Logical View
-============
-Yardstick Logical View describes the most important classes, their
-organization, and the most important use-case realizations.
-
-Main classes:
-
-**TaskCommands** - "yardstick task" subcommand handler.
-
-**HeatContext** - Do test yaml file context section model convert to HOT,
-deploy and undeploy Openstack heat stack.
-
-**Runner** - Logic that determines how a test scenario is run and reported.
-
-**TestScenario** - Type/class of measurement for example Ping, Pktgen, (Iperf,
-LmBench, ...)
-
-**Dispatcher** - Choose user defined way to store test results.
-
-TaskCommands is the "yardstick task" subcommand's main entry. It takes yaml
-file (e.g. test.yaml) as input, and uses HeatContext to convert the yaml
-file's context section to HOT. After Openstacik heat stack is deployed by
-HeatContext with the converted HOT, TaskCommands use Runner to run specified
-TestScenario. During first runner initialization, it will create output
-process. The output process use Dispatcher to push test results. The Runner
-will also create a process to execute TestScenario. And there is a
-multiprocessing queue between each runner process and output process, so the
-runner process can push the real-time test results to the storage media.
-TestScenario is commonly connected with VMs by using ssh. It sets up VMs and
-run test measurement scripts through the ssh tunnel. After all TestScenaio
-is finished, TaskCommands will undeploy the heat stack. Then the whole test is
-finished.
-
-.. image:: images/Logical_view.png
- :width: 800px
- :alt: Yardstick Logical View
-
-Process View (Test execution flow)
-==================================
-Yardstick process view shows how yardstick runs a test case. Below is the
-sequence graph about the test execution flow using heat context, and each
-object represents one module in yardstick:
-
-.. image:: images/test_execution_flow.png
- :width: 800px
- :alt: Yardstick Process View
-
-A user wants to do a test with yardstick. He can use the CLI to input the
-command to start a task. "TaskCommands" will receive the command and ask
-"HeatContext" to parse the context. "HeatContext" will then ask "Model" to
-convert the model. After the model is generated, "HeatContext" will inform
-"Openstack" to deploy the heat stack by heat template. After "Openstack"
-deploys the stack, "HeatContext" will inform "Runner" to run the specific test
-case.
-
-Firstly, "Runner" would ask "TestScenario" to process the specific scenario.
-Then "TestScenario" will start to log on the openstack by ssh protocal and
-execute the test case on the specified VMs. After the script execution
-finishes, "TestScenario" will send a message to inform "Runner". When the
-testing job is done, "Runner" will inform "Dispatcher" to output the test
-result via file, influxdb or http. After the result is output, "HeatContext"
-will call "Openstack" to undeploy the heat stack. Once the stack is
-undepoyed, the whole test ends.
-
-Deployment View
-===============
-Yardstick deployment view shows how the yardstick tool can be deployed into the
-underlying platform. Generally, yardstick tool is installed on JumpServer(see
-`03-installation` for detail installation steps), and JumpServer is
-connected with other control/compute servers by networking. Based on this
-deployment, yardstick can run the test cases on these hosts, and get the test
-result for better showing.
-
-.. image:: images/Deployment.png
- :width: 800px
- :alt: Yardstick Deployment View
-
-Yardstick Directory structure
-=============================
-
-**yardstick/** - Yardstick main directory.
-
-*ci/* - Used for continuous integration of Yardstick at different PODs and
- with support for different installers.
-
-*docs/* - All documentation is stored here, such as configuration guides,
- user guides and Yardstick descriptions.
-
-*etc/* - Used for test cases requiring specific POD configurations.
-
-*samples/* - test case samples are stored here, most of all scenario and
- feature's samples are shown in this directory.
-
-*tests/* - Here both Yardstick internal tests (*functional/* and *unit/*) as
- well as the test cases run to verify the NFVI (*opnfv/*) are stored.
- Also configurations of what to run daily and weekly at the different
- PODs is located here.
-
-*tools/* - Currently contains tools to build image for VMs which are deployed
- by Heat. Currently contains how to build the yardstick-trusty-server
- image with the different tools that are needed from within the image.
-
-*vTC/* - Contains the files for running the virtual Traffic Classifier tests.
-
-*yardstick/* - Contains the internals of Yardstick: Runners, Scenario, Contexts,
- CLI parsing, keys, plotting tools, dispatcher and so on.
-