benchmark-runner 1.0.336

Benchmark Runner Tool

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Benchmark-Runner: Running benchmarks

What is it?

benchmark-runner is a containerized Python lightweight and flexible framework for running benchmark workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift runtype kinds Pod, kata and VM.

This framework support the following embedded workloads:

• hammerdb: running hammerdb workload on the following databases: MSSQL, Mariadb, Postgresql in Pod, Kata or VM with Configuration
• stressng: running stressng workload in Pod, Kata or VM Configuration
• uperf: running uperf workload in Pod, Kata or VM with Configuration
• vdbench: running vdbench workload in Pod, Kata or VM with Configuration

Benchmark-runner grafana dashboard example:

Reference:

• The benchmark-runner package is located in PyPi
• The benchmark-runner container image is located in Quay.io

Documentation

Documentation is available at benchmark-runner.readthedocs.io

Table of Contents

• Benchmark-Runner
  • Documentation
  • Run workload using Podman or Docker
  • Run workload in Pod using Kubernetes or OpenShift
  • Grafana dashboards
  • Inspect Prometheus Metrics
  • How to develop in benchmark-runner

Run workload using Podman or Docker

Environment variables description:

mandatory: WORKLOAD=$WORKLOAD

Choose one from the following list:

['stressng_pod', 'stressng_vm', 'stressng_kata','uperf_pod', 'uperf_vm', 'uperf_kata', 'hammerdb_pod_mariadb', 'hammerdb_pod_mssql', 'hammerdb_pod_postgres', 'hammerdb_vm_mariadb', 'hammerdb_vm_mssql', 'hammerdb_vm_postgres', 'hammerdb_kata_mariadb', 'hammerdb_kata_mssql', 'hammerdb_kata_postgres', 'vdbench_pod', 'vdbench_kata', 'vdbench_vm']

auto: NAMESPACE=benchmark-operator [ The default namespace is benchmark-operator ]

auto: ODF_PVC=True [ True=ODF PVC storage, False=Ephemeral storage, default True ]

auto: EXTRACT_PROMETHEUS_SNAPSHOT=True [ True=extract Prometheus snapshot into artifacts, false=don't, default True ]

auto: SYSTEM_METRICS=True [ True=collect metric, False=not collect metrics, default True ]

auto: RUNNER_PATH=/tmp [ The default work space is /tmp ]

optional: KUBEADMIN_PASSWORD=$KUBEADMIN_PASSWORD

optional: PIN_NODE_BENCHMARK_OPERATOR=$PIN_NODE_BENCHMARK_OPERATOR [node selector for benchmark operator pod]

optional: PIN_NODE1=$PIN_NODE1 [node1 selector for running the workload]

optional: PIN_NODE2=$PIN_NODE2 [node2 selector for running the workload, i.e. uperf server and client, hammerdb database and workload]

optional: ELASTICSEARCH=$ELASTICSEARCH [ elasticsearch service name]

optional: ELASTICSEARCH_PORT=$ELASTICSEARCH_PORT

podman run --rm -e WORKLOAD=$WORKLOAD -e KUBEADMIN_PASSWORD=$KUBEADMIN_PASSWORD -e PIN_NODE_BENCHMARK_OPERATOR=$PIN_NODE_BENCHMARK_OPERATOR -e PIN_NODE1=$PIN_NODE1 -e PIN_NODE2=$PIN_NODE2 -e ELASTICSEARCH=$ELASTICSEARCH -e ELASTICSEARCH_PORT=$ELASTICSEARCH_PORT -e log_level=INFO -v $KUBECONFIG:/root/.kube/config --privileged quay.io/ebattat/benchmark-runner:latest

Run workload in Pod using Kubernetes or OpenShift

[TBD]

Grafana dashboards

There are 3 grafana dashboards templates:

1. benchmark-runner-ci-status-report.json
2. benchmark-runner-report.json

** After importing json in grafana, you need to configure elasticsearch data source. (for more details: see HOW_TO.md)

Inspect Prometheus Metrics

The CI jobs store snapshots of the Prometheus database for each run as part of the artifacts. Within the artifact directory is a Prometheus snapshot directory named:

promdb-YYYY_MM_DDTHH_mm_ss+0000_YYYY_MM_DDTHH_mm_ss+0000.tar

The timestamps are for the start and end of the metrics capture; they are stored in UTC time (+0000). It is possible to run containerized Prometheus on it to inspect the metrics. Note that Prometheus requires write access to its database, so it will actually write to the snapshot. So for example if you have downloaded artifacts for a run named hammerdb-vm-mariadb-2022-01-04-08-21-23 and the Prometheus snapshot within is named promdb_2022_01_04T08_21_52+0000_2022_01_04T08_45_47+0000, you could run as follows:

$ local_prometheus_snapshot=/hammerdb-vm-mariadb-2022-01-04-08-21-23/promdb_2022_01_04T08_21_52+0000_2022_01_04T08_45_47+0000
$ chmod -R g-s,a+rw "$local_prometheus_snapshot"
$ sudo podman run --rm -p 9090:9090 -uroot -v "$local_prometheus_snapshot:/prometheus" --privileged prom/prometheus --config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml --storage.tsdb.path=/prometheus --storage.tsdb.retention.time=100000d --storage.tsdb.retention.size=1000PB

and point your browser at port 9090 on your local system, you can run queries against it, e. g.

sum(irate(node_cpu_seconds_total[2m])) by (mode,instance) > 0

It is important to use the --storage.tsdb.retention.time option to Prometheus, as otherwise Prometheus may discard the data in the snapshot. And note that you must set the time bounds on the Prometheus query to fit the start and end times as recorded in the name of the promdb snapshot.

How to develop in benchmark-runner

see HOW_TO.md