• Satellite-performance: What does it have?
• Installation
  • Installation Prerequisites
  • Installation Steps
• Execution
• Ansible for satellite-performance
  • Getting Started
  • sync repos
  • Performance Check
  • Performance Tune
  • Adjust your overcloud

This project was started to run performance tests on Red Hat Satelitte. It does the following activities:

• Satelitte installation
• Uploads manigfest, updates repo
• Concurrently syncs multiple repositories from repo server
• Creates lifecycle environments
• Creates capsules
• Concurrently syncronizes multiple capsules
• ..etc

It also provides a way to measure time for tests while capturing resources using pbench

Ansible is used to perform most of the work. There are playbooks for:

• Installing satellite
• Installing capsule
• Registering containers as hosts to capsule
• Install ketello-agent and run errata
• Sync content
• Puppet module update

This is a Python 2 based project. Install pip, virtualenv and run source ./setup from root.

The above script does the following:

• exports ANSIBLE_CONFIG=$PWD/conf/ansible.cfg
• checks for RPM packages: gcc python-devel openssl-devel libffi-devel
• check for virtualenv settings

1. Before running satellite-performance, check conf/satperf.yaml, and create conf/satperf.local.yaml and configure any owerrides there (e.g. RHN credentials, Satellite setup details etc).

2. Make sure that all hosts you are going to use have SSH certificate deployed for user root and private certificate is configured in your conf/satperf.local.yaml.

3. Save your Satellite manifest as conf/manifest.zip or elsewhere and configure path in your conf/satperf.local.yaml.

4. If you are going to use sateperf to setup your docker hosts, pay special attention to their partitioning. In setup satperf uses, we need empty disk partition (/dev/vda3 by default) where LVM logical group "docker" will be created and docker will be configured to use that. There are two very simple pre-created roles for that: playbooks/satellite/roles/docker-host-kvm-partitioning and .../docker-host-ec2-partitioning. Please choose one or create new one byt setting docker_host_partitioning in config to "kvm" or "ec2" or add new one and alter playbooks/satellite/docker-host.yaml

For help:

(venv) $ ./satperf.py -h

Example, for installation, run:

(venv) $ ./satperf.py -s

$ ansible-playbook --private-key conf/id_rsa -i conf/hosts.ini playbooks/satellite/docker-host.yaml

$ ansible-playbook --private-key conf/id_rsa -i conf/hosts.ini playbooks/satellite/installation.yaml

$ ansible-playbook --private-key conf/id_rsa -i conf/hosts.ini playbooks/satellite/capsules.yaml

$ ansible-playbook --private-key conf/id_rsa -i conf/hosts.ini playbooks/monitoring/collectd-generic.yaml --tags "satellite6"

...Replace "satellite6" with whatever machines you intend to install collectd on.

$ ansible-playbook --private-key conf/id_rsa -i conf/hosts.ini playbooks/monitoring/dashboards-generic.yaml

You might wanna check the selinux policies. Try one of the following to counter "Permission Denied" log statement:

# setsebool -P collectd_tcp_network_connect 1

OR

# audit2allow -a
# audit2allow -a -M collectd_t
# semodule -i collectd_t.pp

OR

# semanage permissive -a httpd_t

..or all.