On 6 April 2018 at 15:49, Carlos Santana <[email protected]> wrote: > Sebastian Bazley from ASF INFRA would be good resource to contact to drive > this.
I'm not sure why you used my name. Although I do some infra-related work, I am not actually part of Infra. (nor do I wish to be). Nor am I familiar with setting up VMs. Sorry, but this is not something I could take on, nor do I wish to. Please contact Infra via its user mailing list. > In the past when I brought this with infra I think I understood from him > that companies can donate funds and explicitly state that are for the > OpenWhisk project then the INFRA team will allocate VMs to OpenWhisk to run > load/performance tests, same way that Hadoop project has decimated VMs in > Jenkins today. > > — Carlos > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 9:38 AM Michael Marth <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi mentors (and others), >> >> Had an offline discussion this week in which the question came up how an >> ASF project should best go about running performance/throughput/scalability >> tests – i.e. tests that cannot be run locally and require a repeatable >> environment. >> >> Some options: >> * interested companies run the tests on their own infra and publish >> results. Pretty lame, especially because typically only that company’s >> engineers can access the env and investigate further. >> * interested companies donate cash to sponsor compute resources, >> committers can run and investigate the tests. Ideal from tech perspective, >> but I have no idea how that cash would make its way from the ASF to a >> particular project. >> * maybe a middle-ground: interested party that happens to have a public >> cloud offering gives credentials to committers >> >> I am mainly interested to learn if there are other ASF projects (e.g. in >> the Big Data/Hadoop ecosystem) that do something similar. Or if there is an >> ASF-recommended way to do this. Or else, where I could ask this question? >> >> Thanks! >> Michael >> >> From: Michael Marth <[email protected]> >> Date: Wednesday 3 May 2017 20:57 >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Performance tests for OpenWhisk >> >> 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
