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14 Yardstick is a framework to test non functional characteristics of an NFV
15 Infrastructure as perceived by an application.
17 An application is a set of virtual machines deployed using the orchestrator of
18 the target cloud, for example OpenStack Heat.
20 Yardstick measures a certain service performance but can also validate the
21 service performance to be within a certain level of agreement.
23 For more information on Yardstick project, please visit:
25 https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/yardstick/Yardstick
26 http://artifacts.opnfv.org/yardstick/docs/userguide/index.html#document-01-introduction
32 Yardstick is a command line tool written in python inspired by Rally. Yardstick
33 is intended to run on a computer with access and credentials to a cloud. The
34 test case is described in a configuration file given as an argument.
36 How it works: the benchmark task configuration file is parsed and converted into
37 an internal model. The context part of the model is converted into a Heat
38 template and deployed into a stack. Each scenario is run using a runner, either
39 serially or in parallel. Each runner runs in its own subprocess executing
40 commands in a VM using SSH. The output of each command is written as json
43 For more information on Yardstick architecture, please read:
45 http://artifacts.opnfv.org/yardstick/docs/userguide/index.html#document-03-architecture
51 Yardstick supports installation on Ubuntu 14.04, OpenSUSE Leap 42.2, 42.3 and
52 Tumbleweed or via a Docker image.
54 To learn how to install Yardstick, consult the documentation available online
57 http://artifacts.opnfv.org/yardstick/docs/userguide/index.html#document-09-installation
62 For information on how to contribute to Yardstick, please visit:
64 https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/yardstick/Get+started+as+a+Yardstick+developer