Following up here I requested a new repo incubator-openwhisk-performance INFRA ticket here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-14778
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:57 PM Michael Marth <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
