kolla-ansible/doc/source/reference/nova-fake-driver.rst
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.. nova-fake-driver:
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Nova Fake Driver
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One common question from OpenStack operators is that "how does the control
plane (for example, database, messaging queue, nova-scheduler ) scales?". To answer
this question, operators setup Rally to drive workload to the OpenStack cloud.
However, without a large number of nova-compute nodes, it becomes difficult to
exercise the control performance.
Given the built-in feature of Docker container, Kolla enables standing up many
of Compute nodes with nova fake driver on a single host. For example,
we can create 100 nova-compute containers on a real host to simulate the
100-hypervisor workload to the ``nova-conductor`` and the messaging queue.
Use nova-fake driver
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nova fake driver can not work with all-in-one deployment. This is because the
fake ``neutron-openvswitch-agent`` for the fake ``nova-compute`` container conflicts
with ``neutron-openvswitch-agent`` on the Compute nodes. Therefore, in the
inventory the network node must be different than the Compute node.
By default, Kolla uses libvirt driver on the Compute node. To use nova-fake
driver, edit the following parameters in ``/etc/kolla/globals.yml`` or in
the command line options.
.. code-block:: yaml
enable_nova_fake: "yes"
num_nova_fake_per_node: 5
.. end
Each Compute node will run 5 ``nova-compute`` containers and 5
``neutron-plugin-agent`` containers. When booting instance, there will be no real
instances created. But :command:`nova list` shows the fake instances.