browbeat/doc/source/developing.rst

Developing against Quickstart

This document helps you with creating a Tripleo Virtual Cloud on your local machine to assist with developing/testing Browbeat.

Why use Quickstart?

Tripleo-Quickstart enables us to have an entire tiny cloud to run Browbeat against. It gives you a virtual Undercloud, virtual Overcloud Controller and Computes and other virtual nodes as well. This allows you (with understood limitations) to run Browbeat, test commits, or develop actively with new code without requring a full set of hardware or to run code through CI.

Limitations

Since everything is virtualized on your local hardware, any performance results are subject to the limitations of your hardware as well as performance behaving with "noisy neighbors". This is only recommended for testing Browbeat and/or gaining familiarity with OpenStack Tripleo Clouds.

Hardware Requirements

Memory will most likely be your limitation:

• 16GiB Memory+Swap
  • Undercloud, 1 Controller
• 32GiB Memory is recommended
  • Undercloud, 1 Controller
  • Undercloud, 1 Controller, 1 Compute
  • Undercloud, 3 Controllers

4 physical cpu cores is recommended with at least 50GB of free disk space ideally on an SSD.

Localhost Preparation

Ensure that sshd is running on your localhost

[akrzos@bithead ~]$ sudo systemctl enable sshd
[akrzos@bithead ~]$ sudo systemctl start sshd

Map 127.0.0.2 to your local host

[akrzos@bithead ~]$ sudo cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 127.0.0.2
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

Create a Quickstart cloud

Download quickstart.sh

[akrzos@bithead ~]$ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openstack/tripleo-quickstart/master/quickstart.sh

Install dependencies

[akrzos@bithead ~]$ bash quickstart.sh --install-deps

Create Configuration and Nodes YAML Files

For this usage of Tripleo-quickstart, there are two configuration files to build a cloud, quickstart_config.yml and quickstart_nodes.yml configuration file. Quickstart_config.yml contains some basic options you may configure for your under/over clouds including ssl, cached image urls, enabling telemetry, and the networking setup. The nodes configuration file defines the amount of resources for your virtual overcloud including node count, Three examples are included here.

quickstart_config.yml

# Allow unsupported distros to deploy QuickStart (Ex. Fedora 24)
supported_distro_check: false

# Turn off Undercloud SSL
undercloud_generate_service_certificate: false

# Turn off Overcloud SSL
ssl_overcloud: false

# Turn off introspection
step_introspect: false

# Version of OpenStack (Ex: newton, ocata, pike)
release: ocata

#overcloud_as_undercloud: false
#force_cached_images: true
#dlrn_hash: current-passed-ci

# Use cached images when possible
#undercloud_image_url: http://walkabout.foobar.com/ci-images/ocata/current-passed-ci/undercloud.qcow2
#ipa_image_url: http://walkabout.foobar.com/ci-images/ocata/current-passed-ci/ironic-python-agent.tar
#overcloud_image_url: http://walkabout.foobar.com/ci-images/ocata/current-passed-ci/overcloud-full.tar

# Tell tripleo how we want things done.
extra_args: >-
  --ntp-server pool.ntp.org

# This config is extremely resource intensive, so we disable telemetry
# in order to reduce the overall memory footprint
# This is not required in newton
telemetry_args: >-
   {% if release != 'newton' %}
   -e {{ overcloud_templates_path }}/environments/disable-telemetry.yaml
   {% endif %}

network_isolation: true
network_isolation_type: 'single-nic-vlans'

# Network setting on the virthost
external_network_cidr: 192.168.23.0/24
networks:
  - name: overcloud
    bridge: brovc
    address: "{{ undercloud_network_cidr|nthhost(2) }}"
    netmask: "{{ undercloud_network_cidr|ipaddr('netmask') }}"

  - name: external
    bridge: brext
    forward_mode: nat
    address: "{{ external_network_cidr|nthhost(1) }}"
    netmask: "{{ external_network_cidr|ipaddr('netmask') }}"
    dhcp_range:
      - "{{ external_network_cidr|nthhost(10) }}"
      - "{{ external_network_cidr|nthhost(50) }}"
    nat_port_range:
      - 1024
      - 65535

# Below are the networking options you will most likely need to adjust for your local environment
# some are dervived from other vars and do not need to be adjusted.
undercloud_external_network_cidr: 172.21.0.0/24
undercloud_networks:
  external:
    address: "{{ undercloud_external_network_cidr|nthhost(1) }}"
    netmask: "{{ undercloud_external_network_cidr|ipaddr('netmask') }}"
    address6: "{{ undercloud_external_network_cidr6|nthhost(1) }}"
    device_type: ovs
    type: OVSIntPort
    ovs_bridge: br-ctlplane
    ovs_options: '"tag=10"'
    tag: 10

network_environment_args:
  ControlPlaneSubnetCidr: "{{ undercloud_network_cidr|ipaddr('prefix') }}"
  ControlPlaneDefaultRoute: "{{ undercloud_network_cidr|nthhost(1) }}"
  EC2MetadataIp: "{{ undercloud_network_cidr|nthhost(1) }}"

  ExternalNetCidr: 172.21.0.0/24
  ExternalAllocationPools: [{"start": "172.21.0.10", "end": "172.21.0.100"}]
  ExternalInterfaceDefaultRoute: 172.21.0.1
  NeutronExternalNetworkBridge: "''"

  InternalApiNetCidr: 172.16.0.0/24
  InternalApiAllocationPools: [{"start": "172.16.0.10", "end": "172.16.0.200"}]

  StorageNetCidr: 172.18.0.0/24
  StorageAllocationPools: [{"start": "172.18.0.10", "end": "172.18.0.200"}]

  StorageMgmtNetCidr: 172.19.0.0/24
  StorageMgmtAllocationPools: [{"start": "172.19.0.10", "end": "172.19.0.200"}]

  TenantNetCidr: 172.17.0.0/24
  TenantAllocationPools: [{"start": "172.17.0.10", "end": "172.17.0.250"}]
  DnsServers: [ '{{ external_network_cidr6|nthhost(1) }}' ]

quickstart_nodes.yml - 1 Controller

# Undercloud Virtual Hardware
undercloud_memory: 8192
undercloud_vcpu: 2

# Controller Virtual Hardware
control_memory: 6144
control_vcpu: 2

# Define a single controller node
overcloud_nodes:
  - name: control_0
    flavor: control
    virtualbmc_port: 6230

node_count: 1

deployed_server_overcloud_roles:
  - name: Controller
    hosts: "$(sed -n 1,1p /etc/nodepool/sub_nodes)"

topology: >-
  --compute-scale 0

quickstart_nodes.yml - 1 Controller, 1 Compute

# Undercloud Virtual Hardware
undercloud_memory: 8192
undercloud_vcpu: 2

# Controller Virtual Hardware
control_memory: 6144
control_vcpu: 2

# Compute Virtual Hardware
compute_memory: 4096
compute_vcpu: 1

overcloud_nodes:
  - name: control_0
    flavor: control
    virtualbmc_port: 6230
  - name: compute_0
    flavor: compute
    virtualbmc_port: 6231

node_count: 2

deployed_server_overcloud_roles:
  - name: Controller
    hosts: "$(sed -n 1,1p /etc/nodepool/sub_nodes)"

topology: >-
  --compute-scale 1
  --control-scale 1

quickstart_nodes.yml - 3 Controllers

# Undercloud Virtual Hardware
undercloud_memory: 8192
undercloud_vcpu: 2

# Controller Virtual Hardware
control_memory: 6144
control_vcpu: 1

# Define a single controller node
overcloud_nodes:
  - name: control_0
    flavor: control
    virtualbmc_port: 6230
  - name: control_1
    flavor: control
    virtualbmc_port: 6231
  - name: control_2
    flavor: control
    virtualbmc_port: 6232

node_count: 3

deployed_server_overcloud_roles:
  - name: Controller
    hosts: "$(sed -n 1,1p /etc/nodepool/sub_nodes)"

topology: >-
  --compute-scale 0
  --control-scale 3

Run quickstart.sh playbooks

You can change version of OpenStack (Ex. newton, ocata, master) you need by editing the release yaml parameter in quickstart_config.yaml (above).

time bash quickstart.sh -v -c quickstart_config.yml -N quickstart_nodes.yml -I -t all -p quickstart.yml -T all -X 127.0.0.2

time bash quickstart.sh -v -c quickstart_config.yml -N quickstart_nodes.yml -I -t all -p quickstart-extras-undercloud.yml -T none 127.0.0.2

time bash quickstart.sh -v -c quickstart_config.yml -N quickstart_nodes.yml -I -t all -p quickstart-extras-overcloud-prep.yml -T none 127.0.0.2

time bash quickstart.sh -v -c quickstart_config.yml -N quickstart_nodes.yml -I -t all -p quickstart-extras-overcloud.yml -T none 127.0.0.2

If all 4 playbooks completed without errors, you should have a local tripleo quickstart cloud. In order to validate, I would recommend ssh-ing into the Undercloud and issuing various openstack cli commands against the overcloud to verify the health of your quickstart-deployment.

Connecting to your Undercloud/Overcloud from your local machine

Create a vlan10 for external network access

[root@bithead network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-brovc.10
DEVICE=brovc.10
ONBOOT=yes
HOTPLUG=no
NM_CONTROLLED=no
VLAN=yes
IPADDR=172.21.0.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
BOOTPROTO=none
MTU=1500
[root@bithead network-scripts]# ifup brovc.10

You can now access the overcloud's external/public api endpoints from your local machine and install Browbeat for benchmarking against it.

Setup Browbeat against your Quickstart Cloud

After you have your Quickstart cloud up and the networking connectivity working, you will want to run Browbeat against it so you can begin contributing. Simply run the script in the utils folder to install Browbeat for usage on the new Tripleo Quickstart cloud.

[akrzos@bithead ~]$ git clone git@github.com:openstack/browbeat.git
Cloning into 'browbeat'...
Warning: Permanently added 'github.com,192.30.253.112' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
remote: Counting objects: 8567, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (28/28), done.
remote: Total 8567 (delta 19), reused 18 (delta 15), pack-reused 8523
Receiving objects: 100% (8567/8567), 5.52 MiB | 3.44 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4963/4963), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
[akrzos@bithead ~]$ cd browbeat/
[akrzos@bithead browbeat]$ ./utils/oooq-browbeat-install.sh
Installing Browbeat on localhost
...(Truncated)
~/code/browbeat-refactor/browbeat
[akrzos@bithead browbeat]$ . .browbeat-venv/bin/activate
(.browbeat-venv) [akrzos@bithead browbeat]$ ./browbeat.py -s conf/quickstart.yml rally
2017-12-13 15:46:34,648 - browbeat.config -    INFO - Config conf/quickstart.yml validated
2017-12-13 15:46:34,657 - browbeat.config -    INFO - Workload quickstart-shaker-l2 validated as shaker
2017-12-13 15:46:34,665 - browbeat.config -    INFO - Workload quickstart-rally validated as rally
2017-12-13 15:46:34,665 - browbeat -    INFO - Browbeat test suite kicked off
2017-12-13 15:46:34,665 - browbeat -    INFO - Browbeat UUID: 8e869626-a596-4ec7-b0b1-ac7f2bf915a7
2017-12-13 15:46:34,666 - browbeat -    INFO - Running workload(s): rally
2017-12-13 15:46:34,666 - browbeat -    INFO - shaker workload quickstart-shaker-l2 disabled via cli
2017-12-13 15:46:34,666 - browbeat -    INFO - rally workload quickstart-rally is enabled
2017-12-13 15:46:34,666 - browbeat.rally -    INFO - Running Rally workload: quickstart-rally
2017-12-13 15:46:34,666 - browbeat.rally -    INFO - Running Scenario: authentic-keystone
2017-12-13 15:46:34,669 - browbeat.rally -    INFO - Running with scenario_args: {'concurrency': 1, 'times': 1}
2017-12-13 15:47:08,665 - browbeat.rally -    INFO - Generating Rally HTML for task_id : 399b90d9-5bc2-431c-b7c9-b7782fef2dde
2017-12-13 15:47:10,224 - browbeat.rally -    INFO - Running Scenario: create-list-network
2017-12-13 15:47:10,226 - browbeat.rally -    INFO - Running with scenario_args: {'concurrency': 1, 'times': 1}
2017-12-13 15:47:45,781 - browbeat.rally -    INFO - Generating Rally HTML for task_id : 544b7cc4-b15c-4308-8f1b-158f06f1b002
2017-12-13 15:47:47,414 - browbeat.rally -    INFO - Running Scenario: boot-list-cirros
2017-12-13 15:47:47,417 - browbeat.rally -    INFO - Running with scenario_args: {'flavor_name': 'm1.xtiny', 'concurrency': 1, 'image_name': 'cirros', 'times': 1}
2017-12-13 15:53:42,181 - browbeat.rally -    INFO - Generating Rally HTML for task_id : 52c348d4-edba-4a3e-bfd9-48ee97cd6613
2017-12-13 15:53:44,566 - browbeat.workloadbase -    INFO - Total scenarios executed:3
2017-12-13 15:53:44,566 - browbeat.workloadbase -    INFO - Total tests executed:3
2017-12-13 15:53:44,566 - browbeat.workloadbase -    INFO - Total tests passed:3
2017-12-13 15:53:44,566 - browbeat.workloadbase -    INFO - Total tests failed:0
2017-12-13 15:53:44,568 - browbeat -    INFO - Saved browbeat result summary to /home/akrzos/code/browbeat-refactor/browbeat/results/20171213-154634.report
2017-12-13 15:53:44,568 - browbeat -    INFO - Browbeat finished successfully, UUID: 8e869626-a596-4ec7-b0b1-ac7f2bf915a7
(.browbeat-venv) [akrzos@bithead browbeat]$ ls results/
20171213-154634  20171213-154634.report  browbeat-Rally-run.log

Troubleshooting

View Undercloud and Overcloud Instance

[root@bithead ~]# sudo su - stack -c 'virsh list --all'
 Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------
 1     undercloud                     running
 3     compute_0                      running
 4     control_0                      running

Accessing Virtual Baremetal Nodes consoles

[root@bithead ~]# sudo su - stack -c 'virsh -c qemu:///session console undercloud'
Connected to domain undercloud
Escape character is ^]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 (Maipo)
Kernel 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 on an x86_64

undercloud login:

Get to Undercloud via ssh

[akrzos@bithead ~]$ ssh -F ~/.quickstart/ssh.config.ansible undercloud
Warning: Permanently added '127.0.0.2' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
Warning: Permanently added 'undercloud' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
Last login: Tue Sep 19 13:25:33 2017 from gateway
[stack@undercloud ~]$

Get to Overcloud nodes via ssh

[akrzos@bithead ~]$ ssh -F ~/.quickstart/ssh.config.ansible overcloud-controller-0
Warning: Permanently added '127.0.0.2' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
Warning: Permanently added 'undercloud' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
Last login: Tue Sep 19 13:25:33 2017 from gateway
[heat-admin@overcloud-controller-0 ~]$

Other gotchas

Make sure your / partition does not fill up with cached images as they can take a large amount of space

[root@bithead ~]# df -h /var/cache/tripleo-quickstart/
Filesystem                           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/fedora_dhcp23--196-root   50G   40G  6.9G  86% /
[root@bithead ~]# du -sh /var/cache/tripleo-quickstart/
5.4G  /var/cache/tripleo-quickstart/

Further Documentation

Tripleo Quickstart docs