Markus, Quick update: sent the below to users@infra. So far no reaction. The archive is here [1] but Bertrand tells me only ASF member have access - for whatever reason.
Michael [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/70999f9233dac9b416ef9dedc97c0ef196a938c05d6a407b94ba3479@%3Cusers.infra.apache.org%3E On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Michael Marth <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear Infra team, I am enquiring on behalf of the OpenWhisk project (currently in Incubator) [1]. We would like to periodically run performance tests on a distributed environment (OpenWhisk typically runs on more than 1 machine). So we are basically looking for an ability to spin up/tear down a number of (virtual) machines and exclusively use them for a certain amount of time (so that the VMs are not shared and the performance test results are comparable over time). The order of magnitude would be ~5-10 VMs for 1 hour 3 times a week. I would like to find out if there is an ASF-supported mechanism to do that. For example, can Infra provide such infrastructure? Or is there a cloud provider (like Azure) that might sponsor such efforts with VMs? Or maybe there is an established way for commercial companies that are interested in an ASF project to sponsor (fund) such tests? If none of the above exists, then it would also be helpful for us to get to know how other projects run such sort of tests. Thanks a lot! Michael [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b66ab5b438f2db5cdc8c5f5eabece201b4ad090058fa3a9a3bd09d12@%3Cdev.openwhisk.apache.org%3E From: Markus Thömmes <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday 26 April 2017 12:59 To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Performance tests for OpenWhisk Hi Michael, yeah that sounds pretty much spot on. I'd like to have at least 2 VMs with 4+ cores and 8GB memory. One VM would host the management stack while one would be dedicated to an Invoker only. That way we could assert single-invoker performance the easiest. Thanks for helping! Cheers, Markus Am 26. April 2017 um 11:36 schrieb Michael Marth <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: Markus, Does what I describe reflect what you are looking for? If yes, I am happy to ask on infra. Let me know Michael On 26/04/17 07:52, "Bertrand Delacretaz" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Michael, On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Michael Marth <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: ...Maybe our mentors can chime in. Has this been discussed in the ASF board or so?... Best would be to ask the ASF infrastructure team via [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> - briefly describe what you need to see what's possible. -Bertrand
