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!

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