Quick start

This section will guide you through all steps of using Rally - from installation to its advanced usage in different use cases (including running Rally in OpenStack CI system gates to control merges of patches submitted for review on Gerrit code review system).

• Rally step-by-step
  • Step 0. Installation
  • Step 1. Setting up the environment and running a task from samples
  • Step 2. Rally input task format
  • Step 3. Running Task against OpenStack with read only users
  • Step 4. Adding success criteria (SLA) for subtasks
  • Step 5. Rally task templates
  • Step 6. Aborting load generation on success criteria failure
  • Step 7. Working with multiple OpenStack clouds
  • Step 8. Discovering more plugins in Rally
  • Step 9. Verifying cloud via Tempest verifier
  • Step 10. Profiling OpenStack Internals
• Rally OpenStack Gates
  • Gate jobs
  • Create a custom Rally Gate job
  • Example: Rally Gate job for Glance
  • Plugins & Extras in Rally Gate jobs