Kiali Performance Rest API (a.k.a Kiali Windsock)

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Description

Kiali Performance REST API Testing (aka Kiali Windsock - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsock) was inspired by Fortio (https://github.com/fortio/fortio) and RegPatrol (https://ibmcloud-perf.istio.io/regpatrol/).

How it works

Dependencies needed to deploy on Openshift

Note	The following instructions assume that you have access to an OpenShift cluster, that the oc command is available on your path and that your current user has cluster permissions. It also assumes that you have Ansible (ansible-playbook) on your path

Note	You will need to deploy Kiali first.

# Installing Dependencies Needed on Fedora (Use your distribution package manager [apt, pacman, yum or zypper])
sudo dnf install ansible python-pip

# Make sure pip is upgraded to the latest
sudo pip install --upgrade pip

# Install the openshift python client library
pip install --user openshift

Deploying Dashboard (InfluxDB and Grafana) on Openshift

Ephemeral Dashboard

make deploy-dashboard-ephemeral

Persistent Dashboard

Note	Your openshift cluster will need to have 2 Persistent Storage at least 5GI(one for InfluxDB and other for Grafana Dashboard).

make deploy-dashboard-persistent

Deploying Windsock

Create a .env file with all the required environment variables. An example env file [.env.example](.env.example) is included.

cp .env.example .env

make deploy-performance-test

You can use ansible-playbook command as well:

	ansible-playbook ansible/performance_test.yml -e kiali_hostname=kiali-istio-system.openshift.cluster.domain.com/api/status \
	-e kiali_username=admin \
	-e kiali_password=admin \
	-e test_name=test-api-status \
	-e influx_address=influxdb-kiali-windsock-dashboard.openshift.cluster.domain.com \
	-e influx_username=admin \
	-e influx_password=admin \
	-e rate=1  \
	-e duration=2000 \
	-e number_of_users=5  -v