Step 8. Discovering more plugins in Rally

Plugins in the Rally repository

Rally currently comes with a great collection of plugins that use the API of different OpenStack projects like Keystone, Nova, Cinder, Glance and so on. The good news is that you can combine multiple plugins in one task to test your cloud in a comprehensive way.

First, let’s see what plugins are available in Rally. One of the ways to discover these plugins is just to inspect their source code. another is to use build-in rally plugin command.

CLI: rally plugin show

Rally plugin CLI command is much more convenient way to learn about different plugins in Rally. This command allows to list plugins and show detailed information about them:

$ rally plugin show create_meter_and_get_stats

NAME
    CeilometerStats.create_meter_and_get_stats
NAMESPACE
    default
MODULE
    rally.plugins.openstack.scenarios.ceilometer.stats
DESCRIPTION
    Meter is first created and then statistics is fetched for the same
    using GET /v2/meters/(meter_name)/statistics.
PARAMETERS
+--------+------------------------------------------------+
| name   | description                                    |
+--------+------------------------------------------------+
| kwargs | contains optional arguments to create a meter |
|        |                                                |
+--------+------------------------------------------------+

In case if multiple found benchmarks found command list all matches elements:

$ rally plugin show NovaKeypair

Multiple plugins found:
+-------------------------------------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| name                                            | namespace | title                                                 |
+-------------------------------------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| NovaKeypair.boot_and_delete_server_with_keypair | default   | Boot and delete server with keypair.                  |
| NovaKeypair.create_and_delete_keypair           | default   | Create a keypair with random name and delete keypair. |
| NovaKeypair.create_and_list_keypairs            | default   | Create a keypair with random name and list keypairs.  |
+-------------------------------------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+

CLI: rally plugin list

This command can be used to list filtered by name list of plugins.

$ rally plugin list --name Keystone

+--------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| name                                             | namespace | title                                                           |
+--------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Authenticate.keystone                            | default   | Check Keystone Client.                                          |
| KeystoneBasic.add_and_remove_user_role           | default   | Create a user role add to a user and disassociate.              |
| KeystoneBasic.create_add_and_list_user_roles     | default   | Create user role, add it and list user roles for given user.    |
| KeystoneBasic.create_and_delete_ec2credential    | default   | Create and delete keystone ec2-credential.                      |
| KeystoneBasic.create_and_delete_role             | default   | Create a user role and delete it.                               |
| KeystoneBasic.create_and_delete_service          | default   | Create and delete service.                                      |
| KeystoneBasic.create_and_list_ec2credentials     | default   | Create and List all keystone ec2-credentials.                   |
| KeystoneBasic.create_and_list_services           | default   | Create and list services.                                       |
| KeystoneBasic.create_and_list_tenants            | default   | Create a keystone tenant with random name and list all tenants. |
| KeystoneBasic.create_and_list_users              | default   | Create a keystone user with random name and list all users.     |
| KeystoneBasic.create_delete_user                 | default   | Create a keystone user with random name and then delete it.     |
| KeystoneBasic.create_tenant                      | default   | Create a keystone tenant with random name.                      |
| KeystoneBasic.create_tenant_with_users           | default   | Create a keystone tenant and several users belonging to it.     |
| KeystoneBasic.create_update_and_delete_tenant    | default   | Create, update and delete tenant.                               |
| KeystoneBasic.create_user                        | default   | Create a keystone user with random name.                        |
| KeystoneBasic.create_user_set_enabled_and_delete | default   | Create a keystone user, enable or disable it, and delete it.    |
| KeystoneBasic.create_user_update_password        | default   | Create user and update password for that user.                  |
| KeystoneBasic.get_entities                       | default   | Get instance of a tenant, user, role and service by id's.       |
+--------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+