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Introduction
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What is the reason for writing this?
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Cloud computing is a complex and evolving process. Its definition can be as
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simple as:
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**a style of computing in which scalable and elastic IT-enabled
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capabilities are delivered as a service using Internet technologies**
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(*IT Glossary: Cloud Computing*)
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At the same time it may require a separate article to explain what cloud
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computing is. There are several characteristics which can describe the system,
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called *cloud*: on **demand**, **scale**, **elasticity**, and **as a Service**.
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All these characteristics are areas of interest for scale and performance
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testing.
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All documentation pieces you'll find here are the summary of knowledge and
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experience gained by various people from different companies, that aims to
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share the ideas of how we can evaluate, analyse and test OpenStack cloud
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performance, including the very infrastructure basics.
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As a community we want this knowledge to become publicly available to allow
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OpenStack developers, QA engineers and operators to have unified way for their
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projects and products evaluation and best recipes for doing this.
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Who will be interested in this?
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Cloud operators, software and quality assurance engineers and any person who
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takes active part in either OpenStack development or its usage.
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Who is contributing to this guide?
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Short answer: OpenStack community.
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A bit longer answer: performance engineers from various companies, cloud
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operators, OpenStack projects developers, etc. We all are part of
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**Performance Team**. Therefore you can find here
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test plans and methodologies, that were written keeping in mind all these
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groups of people, their interest and experience.
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