Hi Sean,
I'm already working on something similar. What I'm trying to do is not
a service, but a set of tests that would be able to run commands on the
nodes and restart services, kill disks, etc. The basic idea is to
inject some fault, see if everything still works as expected and
restore the state back to what it was before the fault. So far I only
have some basic tests for Swift, but I'm planning more. The state
restoration is going to be via snapshots (so it will have to be running
in VMs, or I could add support for LVM snapshots too) .
The project is called DestroyStack and is located here:
https://github.com/mkollaro/destroystack/tree/devel
It's still WIP, please don't try to run it yet, not everything is
implemented. I'm currently trying to create that demo.
Martina
On Wed 02 Apr 2014 12:34:43 PM CEST, Sean Dague wrote:
Fault injection is a problem I've been thinking about, though I don't
have time to dive into it any time soon. But I'll share my ideas in case
they are interesting.
I think we need a Fault Injection Service for OpenStack. It would act
like many of the other OpenStack services, have an API service, and a
worker on every node. It would be our own kind of chaos monkey, except
very programmable. It would look like any multi host service,
communicating over RPC between API and the nodes.
The Fault injection service would have the ability to kill process on
the hosts (libvirt, nova-compute, c-vol). It would also have the ability
to delete did data (simulating a hardware fault).
We could definitely use something like this to also signal a service
restart, or some other behind the scenes action that we'd expect would
be regularly happening.
If we had a Fault Injection service, then we could have a class of tests
(possibly in Tempest, possibly in another place) which would start
resources with the OpenStack API, then inject faults, then continue
along the way.
I feel like Juno is too soon for this, as we have lots of other issues
to address. However, K might work. That being said, if anyone wants to
dive in early, have at. The important thing would be that this has REST
API, and that it be multi node.
-Sean
On 04/02/2014 04:37 AM, Tomoya Goto wrote:
Hello, Igawa-san
Thanks for pointing out Tempest principles. I wasn't aware of them.
ok, I'll probably use the current test cases with manually stopping
services.
I'm checking with Temest(icehouse) and if I write or think up something
useful, I'll be back. Also Grenade, too. :)
Thank you for valuable advices,
- Tomoya Goto
Hi,
On 04/02, Tomoya Goto wrote:
Thanks for quick replies Igawa-san and Mr.Sean! :)
and sorry foy my slow reply :(
np :)
The task I wantetd to conduct is not only for upgrading but also for
rather small maintenace, say stopping openstack-cinder* for changing
configuration.
Now, Grenade is for upgrade purpose but not for such small
maintenace, right?
So I think tempest is more suitable than Grenade for such task.
what do you say?
This kind (fault injection?) of tests that you said are interesting and
we should have them in future. But Tempest should not operate OpenStack
components directly. e.g. stop/start Cinder/Glance/Nova services.
This is one of design principles[1]. So I think we need a new project
for these types of tests or need to change the principles.
[1]
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tempest/overview.html#design-principles
Thanks,
-- Masayuki Igawa
- Tomoya Goto
You are correct. The testing we do for this is in Grenade, which we run
in the gate. Grenade tests an upgrade from last stable release to
current master. It creates a few resources before the upgrade, and
fails
if those are interupted after the upgrade.
Grenade is still pretty light on the number of resources it creates
before the upgrade, and is definitely a place where enhancement is
welcome.
-Sean
On 04/01/2014 04:18 AM, Masayuki Igawa wrote:
Hi Goto-san,
I think this is an interesting test case. But AFAIK, Tempest and its
scenario tests don't have such test cases now, and we can't stop the
OpenStack processes through Tempest.
Do you know Grenade[1]? I think Grenade is the only one upgrading
test in
the OpenStack community now. So I guess Grenade can test these kind of
tests but not yet though.
[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Grenade
On 04/01, 後藤 僚哉 wrote:
Hello everyone.
I'm looking for an independence test between an OpenStack environment
and virtual environments.
In case of updating an openstack environment, you need to stop each
OpenStack process, but you don't want the instances to be affected by
OpenStack outages.
So before maintenane, you want to make sure OpenStack and backing
services(KVM, OVS, storage,.) are separate.
For example.
1) Creating a virtual environment on a OpenStack environment. this
includes Nova instances, Neutron L2/3 networks, Cinder volumes and
etc.
I'd like to clarify more. Do you mean OpenStack on OpenStack
environment?
Or just mean VMs on OpenStack env?
I meant just VMs on OpenStack env.
When you stop some processes for update, say openstack-cinder-*, you
want to make sure it won't disconnect volume/VM.
Thanks, I got it.
2) Stopping one or more OpenStack's processes.
Currently, Tempest can't stop the OpenStack processes. Because Tempest
can operate OpenStack components through OpenStack APIs only for now.
oh yes. Just like I feard.
Thanks,
-- Masayuki Igawa
3) Running this test, and checking that each resource doesn't stop.
4) Updating an OpenStack, editing configurations or etc.
I assume such test is coverd by tempest.
Dose Tempest have those test methods? or if not, do you think it's
going
to be handy if I make such test?
Best regards,
Tomoya Goto
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