On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 3:15 PM Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Frode brought up during last week's OVN IRC meeting the possibility of > moving ovn-heater [0] to the ovn-org [1] organization. > > For some context: today ovn-heater uses containers on multiple bare > metal machines to simulate OVN nodes provisioned by ovn-kubernetes > (already part of ovn-org [2]) in various scenarios. This is used to > benchmark OVN (and ovsdb-server and other OVS components) at scale in > these scenarios. > > We (at Red Hat) have been using ovn-heater consistently (weekly runs) > throughout the last year in order to benchmark OVN in OpenShift like > scenarios in clusters scaling up to 500 nodes. These runs have already > helped us pin-point a lot of the scale related issues (both OVN and > ovsdb-server) that have been fixed in the last months/year. > > The core of ovn-heater is (rather simple) python code so there should be > no reason that would block us from adding more scale test scenarios to > simulate clusters provisioned by other CMS (e.g., OpenStack) turning > ovn-heater into a generic OVN scale testing tool. > > I cc-ed all the OVN maintainers and all GitHub ovn-org owners but > feedback from the whole community is more than welcome! >
Ilya pointed out privately that he couldn't see all maintainers in CC although i'm quite sure my email client added them. Retrying with all maintainers and ovn-org owners in "To" now. > Thank you! > > Best regards, > Dumitru > > [0] https://github.com/dceara/ovn-heater > [1] https://github.com/ovn-org > [2] https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn-kubernetes _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
