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Rally is tool & framework that allows one to write simple plugins and combine them in complex tests scenarios that allows to perform all kinds of testing!
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Rally is intended to provide a testing framework that is capable to perform specific, complicated and reproducible test cases on real deployment scenarios.
Rally workflow can be visualized by the following diagram:
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Rally documentation on ReadTheDocs <https://rally.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>
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is a perfect place to start learning about Rally. It provides you with an
easy and illustrative guidance through this benchmarking tool.
For example, check out the Rally step-by-step tutorial <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quick_start/tutorial.html>
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explains, in a series of lessons, how to explore the power of Rally in
benchmarking your OpenStack clouds.
In terms of software architecture, Rally is built of 4 main components:
There are 3 major high level Rally Use Cases:
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Typical cases where Rally aims to help are:
Automate measuring & profiling focused on how new code changes affect the OpenStack performance;
Using Rally profiler to detect scaling & performance issues;
Investigate how different deployments affect the OS performance:
Automate the search for hardware best suited for particular OpenStack cloud;
Automate the production cloud specification generation:
FAQs
Generic Testing Framework & Tool that unifies all types of testing.
We found that rally demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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