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Rally v0.10.0
=============

Overview
--------

+------------------+-----------------------+
| Release date     |     **10/20/2017**    |
+------------------+-----------------------+

* Ability to use OpenStack deployments without admin credentials
* Better validation process of tasks
* New task format (with an ability to set description for workloads)
* New JSON report
* ElasticSearch exporter
* `OSProfiler support
  <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/quick_start/tutorial/step_11_profiling_openstack_internals.html>`_
* Restructure of configuration options.

Details
-------

Command Line Interface
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* Introduce `rally task import
  <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/cli_reference.html#rally-task-import>`_
  command for importing task results into database.

* Extend tags support for tasks. Now you can specify several tags for a
single
  task using `--tag argument
  <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/cli_reference.html#task-start-tag>`_.
  Also filtering tasks by tags is now available.

* Move DB category from ``rally-manage db`` to `rally db
  <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/cli_reference.html#category-db>`_
and
  introduce `rally db show
  <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/cli_reference.html#rally-db-show>`_
  command for printing the used connection string.

Deployments
~~~~~~~~~~~

This release we started a huge work related to simplification of
deployment
component of Rally. There is a good progress which includes several nice
features:

* The format.
  "ExistingCloud" deployment type covers 99.99% cases and is used as a
base for
  all new things. Also, it will be extended to support different
platforms
  soon. The new format looks like (for OpenStack case):

  .. code-block:: json

    {
        "openstack": {
            "admin": {
                "username": "admin",
                "password": "changeme",
                "tenant_name": "foo",
            },
            "auth_url": "https://example.com",
        }
    }

* admin user is optional in case of setting existing users.
  From the beginning, setting admin credentials was a required section
of Rally
  deployment configuration. Even with introducing existing users
feature, this
  behaviour left.
  Finally, we finished a big code refactoring and admin credential
become
  optional section. If a set of plugins for particular workload doesn't
require
  admin user, you can launch this task at deployment without setting it.

  The information about the requirements of plugins you can find at
  `Plugins Reference page
  <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html>`_
(see
  ``Requires platform(s):`` section at the bottom of each plugin).

* Originally, Rally project was designed to check performance of
OpenStack and
  we succeeded in building awesome tool. We do not plan to stop and just
want
  to inform about our future plans to expand a number of supported
platforms.
  Subscribe to our `GitHub organization
  <https://github.com/xrally>`_ to not miss new plugins.

Task component
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* The new task format is introduced. It includes a bunch of
improvements,
  unification, etc. All the docs and samples will be updated soon.

  As for now, you can check `a spec
  <https://github.com/openstack/rally/blob/0.10.0/doc/specs/implemented/new_rally_input_task_format.rst>`_
  for this big change.

* SLA failure_rate max=0 become a default if nothing else is specified.

* Totally reworked atomic actions. The atomic actions now supports
nested
  actions which allows to measure durations inside the scenario even
more
  precise. You can find them in HTML report or in our new json report
  (see ``rally task report --json``).

* Generation of names for new resources takes care about particular
workload
  id, so it helps to provide a better cleanup and prepare for new
feature -
  disaster cleanup.

Plugins
~~~~~~~

We started supporting discovering plugins by entry-points, so you can
easily
deliver your custom plugins as a simple python package.

To make you package after-discoverable, you need to specify the proper
entry-point at your setup.cfg file:

  .. code-block::

    rally_plugins =
       path=package_name

**Deployment Engines**:

Remove serverproviders & rarely used deployers

Unfortunately, seems like nobody is using deployers for deploying
their clouds and mostly people would like just to execute their code.

1) Remove server provides
2) Remove engines that uses server providers

**OpenStack clients**:

* Deprecate EC2 client. It wasn't used in any of plugins and doesn't
support
  keystone v3

* Move ``rally.osclients`` module to
``rally.plugins.openstack.oscliens``

**Scenarios**:

The old way to describe scenario plugin via method is finally removed.
Initially Rally scenario plugins were methods of special class, like
below:

  .. code-block:: python

    from rally.task import scenario

    class SomeBasicClass(scenario.Scenario):

       @scenario.configure()
       def some_scenario(self, arg1):
           """An implementation of SomeBasicClass.foo scenario."""

       @scenario.configure()
       def another_scenario(self):
           """Implementation of another scenario, SomeBasicClass.bar."""

However to unify scenarios with other plugins we moved to model where
plugin is class. It was done long time ago.

  .. code-block:: python

    from rally.task import scenario

    @scenario.configure(name="CustomName")
    class Some(scenario.Scenario):

       def run(self, arg1):
           """An implementation of the scenario."""

We had a bunch of code that was used for transition and backward
compatibility
that we finally removed.

* *NEW!!*

 - `CinderQos.create_and_get_qos
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#cinderqos-create-and-get-qos-scenario>`_

 - `CinderQos.create_and_list_qos
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#cinderqos-create-and-list-qos-scenario>`_

 - `CinderQos.create_and_set_qos
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#cinderqos-create-and-set-qos-scenario>`_

 - `CinderQos.create_qos_associate_and_disassociate_type
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#cinderqos-create-qos-associate-and-disassociate-type-scenario>`_

 - `CinderVolumeTypes.create_and_get_volume_type
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#cindervolumetypes-create-and-get-volume-type-scenario>`_

 - `CinderVolumeTypes.create_and_list_volume_types
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#cindervolumetypes-create-and-list-volume-types-scenario>`_

 - `CinderVolumeTypes.create_and_update_encryption_type
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#cindervolumetypes-create-and-update-encryption-type-scenario>`_

 - `CinderVolumeTypes.create_and_update_volume_type
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#cindervolumetypes-create-and-update-volume-type-scenario>`_

 - `CinderVolumeTypes.create_get_and_delete_encryption_type
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#cindervolumetypes-create-get-and-delete-encryption-type-scenario>`_

 - `CinderVolumeTypes.create_volume_type_add_and_list_type_access
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#cindervolumetypes-create-volume-type-add-and-list-type-access-scenario>`_

 - `Dummy.openstack
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#dummy-openstack-scenario>`_

 - `GlanceImages.create_and_deactivate_image
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#glanceimages-create-and-deactivate-image-scenario>`_

 - `GlanceImages.create_and_download_image
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#glanceimages-create-and-download-image-scenario>`_

 - `GlanceImages.create_and_get_image
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#glanceimages-create-and-get-image-scenario>`_

 - `GlanceImages.create_and_update_image
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#glanceimages-create-and-update-image-scenario>`_

 - `K8sPods.create_pods
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#k8spods-create-pods-scenario>`_

 - `K8sPods.create_rcs
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#k8spods-create-rcs-scenario>`_

 - `K8sPods.list_pods
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#k8spods-list-pods-scenario>`_

 - `ManilaShares.create_and_extend_share
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#manilashares-create-and-extend-share-scenario>`_

 - `ManilaShares.create_and_shrink_share
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#manilashares-create-and-shrink-share-scenario>`_

 - `ManilaShares.create_share_then_allow_and_deny_access
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#manilashares-create-share-then-allow-and-deny-access-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronBGPVPN.create_and_delete_bgpvpns
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronbgpvpn-create-and-delete-bgpvpns-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronBGPVPN.create_and_list_bgpvpns
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronbgpvpn-create-and-list-bgpvpns-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronBGPVPN.create_and_list_networks_associations
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronbgpvpn-create-and-list-networks-associations-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronBGPVPN.create_and_list_routers_associations
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronbgpvpn-create-and-list-routers-associations-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronBGPVPN.create_and_update_bgpvpns
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronbgpvpn-create-and-update-bgpvpns-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronBGPVPN.create_bgpvpn_assoc_disassoc_networks
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronbgpvpn-create-bgpvpn-assoc-disassoc-networks-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronBGPVPN.create_bgpvpn_assoc_disassoc_routers
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronbgpvpn-create-bgpvpn-assoc-disassoc-routers-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronNetworks.create_and_show_ports
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronnetworks-create-and-show-ports-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronNetworks.create_and_show_routers
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronnetworks-create-and-show-routers-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronNetworks.create_and_show_subnets
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronnetworks-create-and-show-subnets-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronNetworks.set_and_clear_router_gateway
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronnetworks-set-and-clear-router-gateway-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronSecurityGroup.create_and_delete_security_group_rule
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronsecuritygroup-create-and-delete-security-group-rule-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronSecurityGroup.create_and_list_security_group_rules
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronsecuritygroup-create-and-list-security-group-rules-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronSecurityGroup.create_and_show_security_group
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronsecuritygroup-create-and-show-security-group-scenario>`_

 - `NeutronSecurityGroup.create_and_show_security_group_rule
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#neutronsecuritygroup-create-and-show-security-group-rule-scenario>`_

 - `NovaServerGroups.create_and_delete_server_group
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novaservergroups-create-and-delete-server-group-scenario>`_

 - `NovaServerGroups.create_and_get_server_group
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novaservergroups-create-and-get-server-group-scenario>`_

 - `NovaServers.boot_and_get_console_url
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novaservers-boot-and-get-console-url-scenario>`_

 - `NovaServers.boot_server_and_attach_interface
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novaservers-boot-server-and-attach-interface-scenario>`_

 - `NovaServers.boot_server_and_list_interfaces
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novaservers-boot-server-and-list-interfaces-scenario>`_

 - `NovaServers.boot_server_attach_volume_and_list_attachments
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novaservers-boot-server-attach-volume-and-list-attachments-scenario>`_

* *UPDATED!!*

 - The new argument ``properties`` is added to scenario
   `IronicNodes.create_and_list_node
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#ironicnodes-create-and-list-node-scenario>`_

* *DELETED*

Fuel and Nova-Network are not alive any more. So we removed those
scenarios.
If any of those scenarios a critical for you, please contact us.

 - `FuelEnvironments.create_and_delete_environment
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#fuelenvironments-create-and-delete-environment-scenario>`_

 - `FuelEnvironments.create_and_list_environments
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#fuelenvironments-create-and-list-environments-scenario>`_

 - `FuelNodes.add_and_remove_node
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#fuelnodes-add-and-remove-node-scenario>`_

 - `NovaFloatingIpsBulk.create_and_delete_floating_ips_bulk
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novafloatingipsbulk-create-and-delete-floating-ips-bulk-scenario>`_

 - `NovaFloatingIpsBulk.create_and_list_floating_ips_bulk
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novafloatingipsbulk-create-and-list-floating-ips-bulk-scenario>`_

 - `NovaNetworks.create_and_delete_network
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novanetworks-create-and-delete-network-scenario>`_

 - `NovaNetworks.create_and_list_networks
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novanetworks-create-and-list-networks-scenario>`_

 - `NovaSecGroup.boot_and_delete_server_with_secgroups
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novasecgroup-boot-and-delete-server-with-secgroups-scenario>`_

 - `NovaSecGroup.boot_server_and_add_secgroups
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novasecgroup-boot-server-and-add-secgroups-scenario>`_

 - `NovaSecGroup.create_and_delete_secgroups
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novasecgroup-create-and-delete-secgroups-scenario>`_

 - `NovaSecGroup.create_and_list_secgroups
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novasecgroup-create-and-list-secgroups-scenario>`_

 - `NovaSecGroup.create_and_update_secgroups
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novasecgroup-create-and-update-secgroups-scenario>`_

**Validators**:

The validators refactoring was a long-term task which blocked us to
abandon
alignment to only OpenStack platform and requirements of setting admin
credentials. In this release, we made a great progress and fixed a lot
of
issues and blockers which made possible to refactor validators.
Now validation step is equal for all types of plugins (Scenario, SLA,
Context,
Hooks, Runners, etc).

The old way to add validator for scenario is deprecated. The new unified
way
looks like:

  .. code-block:: python

    import time

    from rally.common import validation
    from rally.task import scenario

    @validation.add("number", param_name="timeout", minval=0)
    @scenario.configure(name="Foo.bar")
    class FooScenario(scenario.Scenario):
        def run(self, timeout):
            time.sleep()

The old validators from ``rally.task.validators`` module is deprecated
too, see
equivalents which can be used with ``add`` decorator:

 - required_openstack --> `required_platform
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#required-platform-validator>`_
   with setting platform argument to "openstack"

 - external_network_exists ->`external_network_exists
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#external-network-exists-validator>`_

 - file_exists ->`file_exists
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#file-exists-validator>`_

 - flavor_exists ->`flavor_exists
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#flavor-exists-validator>`_

 - image_exists ->`image_exists
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#image-exists-validator>`_

 - image_valid_on_flavor ->`image_valid_on_flavor
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#image-valid-on-flavor-validator>`_

 - number ->`number
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#number-validator>`_

 - required_api_versions ->`required_api_versions
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#required-api-versions-validator>`_

 - required_cinder_services ->`required_cinder_services
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#required-cinder-services-validator>`_

 - required_clients ->`required_clients
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#required-clients-validator>`_

 - required_contexts ->`required_contexts
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#required-contexts-validator>`_

 - required_neutron_extensions ->`required_neutron_extensions
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#required-neutron-extensions-validator>`_

 - required_param_or_context ->`required_param_or_context
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#required-param-or-context-validator>`_

 - required_services ->`required_services
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#required-services-validator>`_

 - restricted_parameters ->`restricted_parameters
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#restricted-parameters-validator>`_

 - validate_heat_template ->`validate_heat_template
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#validate-heat-template-validator>`_

 - volume_type_exists ->`volume_type_exists
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#volume-type-exists-validator>`_

 - workbook_contains_workflow -> `workbook_contains_workflow
   <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#workbook-contains-workflow-validator>`_

 - network_exists is removed, since we do not find any customers for it.
   Please contact us if it was useful for you.

 - validate_share_proto is removed in favor of enum validator

Fixed bugs
~~~~~~~~~~

* [plugins] JSON schema of `servers
  <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#servers-context>`_
  context allows to transmit a list of nics in two formats. First one is
a
  format that novaclient expects to see (each network should be
represented
  like ``{"nic-id": "the id of the network"}``). The second one is more
  user-friendly - just list of strings (each network should be
represented
  just by id of the network). Unfortunately, the second case was not
covered
  by our code base.

  Also, the first described format works in limited cases due to bad
  serialization.

  `Launchpad bug-report #1695245
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/rally/+bug/1695245>`_

* [deployment] ~/rally/.openrc not working for keystone v3

  `Launchpad bug-report #1683820
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/rally/+bug/1683820>`_

* [plugins] Failed to list volumes in case of missed name in the object.

* [backported into 0.9.1][deployment] Credentials is not updated as soon
as
  deployment is recreated. Need to call recreate request twice.

  `Launchpad bug-report #1675271
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/rally/+bug/1675271>`_

* [backported into 0.9.1][plugins] Scenario
`IronicNodes.create_and_list_node
  <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#ironicnodes-create-and-list-node-scenario>`_
  had a wrong check that list of all nodes contains newly created one.

* [backported into 0.9.1][task][cleanup] Do not remove quotas in case of
  existing users

* [backported into 0.9.1][task][cleanup] Various traces of neutron
resources

* [backported into 0.9.1][core] Keystone v3, authentication error for
Rally
  users if the value of project_domain_name of admin user isn't equal
"default"

  `Launchpad bug-report #1680837
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/rally/+bug/1680837>`_

* [backported into 0.9.1][task] Scenario `NovaHosts.list_and_get_hosts
  <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#novahosts-list-and-get-hosts-scenario>`_
  obtains hostname for all hosts. But it fails in some environments if
host is
  not compute.

  `Launchpad bug-report #1675254
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/rally/+bug/1675254>`_

* [backported into 0.9.1][verification] Rally fails to run on systems on
which
  python-virtualenv is not installed

  `Launchpad bug-report #1678047
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/rally/+bug/1678047>`_

* [backported into 0.9.1][verification] CLI `rally verify rerun
  <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.1/verification/cli_reference.html#rally-verify-rerun>`_
  fails with TypeError due to wrong integration with Rally API.

* [plugins] Rally fails while creating neutron router on the clouds
where
  ext-gw-mode extension is not installed.

* [plugins] Scenario
`CinderVolumes.create_nested_snapshots_and_attach_volume
  <https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/0.10.0/plugins/plugin_reference.html#cindervolumes-create-nested-snapshots-and-attach-volume-scenario>`_
  fails on a big load due to the fact that one server is used for
several
  iterations. In such case we are facing 2 issues: the maximum number of
  volumes per VM is 26 (which is a number of available names for
volumes);
  detaching volume of one iteration can block attaching of other
iterations.

  `Launchpad bug-report #1708160
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/rally/+bug/1708160>`_

Thanks
~~~~~~

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