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Install OpenStack BenchiMarking Tool, Rally.

This example is based on the environment like follows. 

------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+------------
            |                          |                          |
        eth0|10.0.0.30             eth0|10.0.0.50             eth0|10.0.0.51
+-----------+-----------+  +-----------+-----------+  +-----------+-----------+
|   [ dlp.srv.world ]   |  | [ network.srv.world ] |  |  [ node01.srv.world ] |
|     (Control Node)    |  |     (Network Node)    |  |     (Compute Node)    |
|                       |  |                       |  |                       |
|  MariaDB    RabbitMQ  |  |      Open vSwitch     |  |        Libvirt        |
|  Memcached  Nginx     |  |     Neutron Server    |  |      Nova Compute     |
|  Keystone   httpd     |  |      OVN-Northd       |  |      Open vSwitch     |
|  Glance     Nova API  |  |  Nginx  iSCSI Target  |  |   OVN Metadata Agent  |
|  Cinder API           |  |     Cinder Volume     |  |     OVN-Controller    |
|  Rally                |  |    Heat API/Engine    |  |                       |
+-----------------------+  +-----------------------+  +-----------------------+
[1] Create user and Database for Rally in MariaDB.
[root@dlp ~(keystone)]#
mysql 

Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 109
Server version: 10.11.10-MariaDB MariaDB Server

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]> create database rally; 
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on rally.* to rally@'localhost' identified by 'password'; 
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on rally.* to rally@'%' identified by 'password'; 
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> exit 
Bye
[2] Install Rally.
# install from Epoxy, EPEL, CRB

[root@dlp ~(keystone)]#
dnf --enablerepo=centos-openstack-epoxy,epel,crb -y install openstack-rally openstack-rally-plugins python3-fixtures
[3] Configure Rally.
[root@dlp ~(keystone)]#
vi /etc/rally/rally.conf
# line 33 : add log file name

log_file = rally.log
# line 38 : add log directory name

log_dir = /var/log/rally
[database]
# line 203 : add MariaDB connection info

connection = mysql+pymysql://rally:password@dlp.srv.world/rally
[root@dlp ~(keystone)]#
mkdir /var/log/rally

[root@dlp ~(keystone)]#
rally db create

Creating database: mysql+pymysql://rally:password@dlp.srv.world/rally
Database created successfully
[4] Add environment variables for Openstack to Rally to run Rally BenchiMarking Tasks.
[root@dlp ~(keystone)]#
rally deployment create --fromenv --name=my-cloud 

+--------------------------------------+---------------------+----------+------------------+--------+
| uuid                                 | created_at          | name     | status           | active |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------+----------+------------------+--------+
| 2316ec0d-61cf-45f0-8db4-e8da4b641993 | 2025-05-29T23:48:49 | my-cloud | deploy-<finished |        |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------+----------+------------------+--------+
Using deployment: 2316ec0d-61cf-45f0-8db4-e8da4b641993
~/.rally/openrc was updated

HINTS:

* To use standard OpenStack clients, set up your env by running:
        source ~/.rally/openrc
  OpenStack clients are now configured, e.g run:
        openstack image list
[root@dlp ~(keystone)]#
source ~/.rally/openrc

[root@dlp ~(keystone)]#
rally deployment show my-cloud 

+----------------------------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+---------------+
| auth_url                   | username | password | tenant_name | region_name | endpoint_type |
+----------------------------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+---------------+
| https://dlp.srv.world:5000 | admin    | ***      | admin       |             | None          |
+----------------------------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+---------------+
[root@dlp ~(keystone)]#
rally deployment check 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Platform openstack:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Available services:
+-------------+----------------+-----------+
| Service     | Service Type   | Status    |
+-------------+----------------+-----------+
| __unknown__ | placement      | Available |
| barbican    | key-manager    | Available |
| cinder      | volumev3       | Available |
| cloud       | cloudformation | Available |
| glance      | image          | Available |
| heat        | orchestration  | Available |
| keystone    | identity       | Available |
| neutron     | network        | Available |
| nova        | compute        | Available |
+-------------+----------------+-----------+
[5] How to use Rally.
For a sample scenario in following tutorial, there are many other samples on the site below, refer to them.
⇒ https://github.com/openstack/rally/blob/master/samples/tasks/scenarios/
# set Benchimarking scenario
# for example, set a simple scenario to create and delete a compute instance
# for [flavor], specify your own registered flavor name
# for [image], specify your own registered image name

[root@dlp ~(keystone)]#
vi boot-and-delete.json 
{
  "NovaServers.boot_and_delete_server": [
    {
      "args": {
        "flavor": {
          "name": "m1.tiny"
        },
        "image": {
          "name": "CentOS-Stream9"
        },
        "force_delete": false
      },
      "runner": {
        "type": "constant",
        "times": 10,
        "concurrency": 2
      },
      "context": {}
    }
  ]
}
# start BenchiMarking Tasks

[root@dlp ~(keystone)]#
rally task start boot-and-delete.json 


.....
.....

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Task 31abc6d5-9b71-4008-a039-4801c0718a3b has 0 error(s)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                 Response Times (sec)                                                  |
+--------------------+-----------+--------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+---------+-------+
| Action             | Min (sec) | Median (sec) | 90%ile (sec) | 95%ile (sec) | Max (sec) | Avg (sec) | Success | Count |
+--------------------+-----------+--------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+---------+-------+
| nova.boot_server   | 11.756    | 12.137       | 13.511       | 15.346       | 17.18     | 12.737    | 100.0%  | 10    |
| nova.delete_server | 6.187     | 6.213        | 6.244        | 6.251        | 6.257     | 6.217     | 100.0%  | 10    |
| total              | 17.956    | 18.352       | 19.768       | 21.59        | 23.413    | 18.954    | 100.0%  | 10    |
|  -> duration       | 16.956    | 17.352       | 18.768       | 20.59        | 22.413    | 17.954    | 100.0%  | 10    |
|  -> idle_duration  | 1.0       | 1.0          | 1.0          | 1.0          | 1.0       | 1.0       | 100.0%  | 10    |
+--------------------+-----------+--------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+---------+-------+

Load duration: 95.9569
Full duration: 105.999

HINTS:
* To plot HTML graphics with this data, run:
        rally task report 31abc6d5-9b71-4008-a039-4801c0718a3b --out output.html

* To generate a JUnit report, run:
        rally task export 31abc6d5-9b71-4008-a039-4801c0718a3b --type junit-xml --to output.xml

* To get raw JSON output of task results, run:
        rally task report 31abc6d5-9b71-4008-a039-4801c0718a3b --json --out output.json
[6] To run the commands that were shown when task had completed, it's possible to generate HTML file with Graph like follows.
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