On 3/9/23 08:08, Frode Nordahl wrote: > On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 5:27 PM Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 3/8/23 16:07, Ilya Maximets wrote: >>> On 3/8/23 15:32, Dumitru Ceara wrote: >>>> 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! >>> >>> As a piece of feedback from the contributor to that project, >>> I think it needs a contribution guide and a documented >>> contribution policy such as adoption of DCO, for example. >>> AUTHORS file may need some updates. >>> >>> I'm pretty sure that all the contributors so far had a right >>> to contribute their code. But these policies might be good >>> to iron out before "going public". >> >> Many thanks for pointing this out! I opened an initial PR to take care >> of some of this: >> >> https://github.com/dceara/ovn-heater/pull/155 >> >>> >>> DCO bot is in use by some of the existing ovn-org projects, >>> so it may help enforcing policies after migration. >>> >> >> Sounds applicable indeed. >> >>> My 2c. >>> >>> Best regards, Ilya Maximets. >>> >> >> Thanks, >> Dumitru >> > > Thanks for bringing this up, Dumitru, and I wanted to reiterate our > interest in the project here. Parts of the repository are universally > applicable for OVN scale testing and could be useful for other CMSs > and deployment scenarios. > > We would like to deploy it in a slightly different way, so I'll be > working on a proposal for how we could decouple the deployment > specific and generic parts and hopefully put up a PR today. >
Sure, looking forward to it! _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
