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v1.12.0

Breaking changes:

  • Azure CLI updated to 2.0 (GH-1359)
  • Update gflags to version 3.1.1 (GH-1322)

New features:

  • Azure container service (GH-1361)
  • Add Reboot() method to BaseOsMixin (GH-1356)
  • Add container cluster classes (GH-1355)
  • Optional --completion_status_file flag to write the completion status of every config to a json file (GH-1349)
  • Add --gcp_min_cpu_platform flag (GH-1336)
  • Add GCP sole tenancy support (GH-1333)
  • Add SHOC package (GH-1332)
  • Add Stencil2D benchmark (GH-1332)
  • Managed memcache service abstraction and a backend for AWS ElastiCache (GH-1235)
  • Add Apache Beam benchmark (GH-1324)
  • Add image_project to GCP YAML config options (GH-1319)
  • Add support for AWS i3 (GH-1308)
  • Optionally create failed run samples with --create_failed_run_samples (GH-1363)
  • Add --storage_size flag for mysql_service benchmark (GH-1360 from @sspano)

Enhancements:

  • Add optional step parameter to IntegerList (GH-1330)
  • Upgrade to NVIDIA's latest version of CUDA Toolkit 8 (GH-1304)
  • Add ID attribute to GCE VMs (GH-1318)
  • Add ability to install netperf from local tar file (GH-1364)

Bug fixes and maintenance updates:

  • Fix up README.md - incorrect command line example and added note on Amazon ES publisher (GH-1350 from @Lirt)
  • Fix up README.md - remove outdated comments about GCP requirements (GH-1354 from @sspano)
  • Fix creating instance with local SSD using NVMe interface (GH-1287)
  • Make flag values consistent with gcloud CLI "SCSI" and "NVME" (GH-1287)
  • Store os types in list instead of tuple so that it can be extended by third parties (GH-1348)
  • Don't create host during VM Create if num_vms_per_host is specified (GH-1352)
  • Fix up kubernetes provider (GH-1351)
  • Add --region to describe/cancel spot-instance-request commands (GH-1347)
  • Install sysbench05plus package in a separate path from sysbench (GH-1338)
  • Change --openstack_additional_flags to be a list flag (GH-1340)
  • Move gflags installation from netperf benchmark to a package (GH-1341)
  • Move package installation of netperf from benchmark to a package (GH-1341)
  • Use snake_case gflags APIs (GH-1328)
  • Check if apt-update has been called in InstallPackages, and call it if it has not been (GH-1334)
  • Fix broken regular expression in blazemark benchmark (GH-1311)
  • Fix CloudSuite license page link (GH-1323)
  • Update hadoop version (GH-1327)
  • Use regional storage class for GCS buckets instead of DRA (GH-1326)
  • Fix gflags FLAGS object initialization in tests (GH-1313)
  • Fix bug with exception name in azure_network.py (GH-1314)
  • Always set GPU clock speed in cuda toolkit installation (GH-1321)
  • Specify image_project in gpu_pcie_bandwidth benchmark config (GH-1321)
  • Move gpu clock speed logic to cuda_toolkit_8 module (GH-1279)
  • Add timeout to netperf remote script (GH-1306)
  • Don't assume that gcloud is in PATH in providers.gcp.util.GetDefaultProject (GH-1366)
  • Make AWS S3 bucket deletion retryable (GH-1343)
  • Empty bucket at the end of the Run stage of the object_storage_service benchmark (GH-1343)

v1.11.0

External contributions:

  • Add ability to publish to InfluxDB (thanks @besanradwan GH-1278)
  • Always set internal IP-Address on OpenStack VMs (thanks @yremmet GH-1228)
  • Add CloudSuite data-analytics benchmark (thanks @ivonindza GH-1285)
  • Update README.md (thanks @ianmaddox GH-1291)
  • Fix a small typo in the anti-affinity FLAG lookup (thanks @joelio GH-1284)
  • Deprecate flag openstack_volume_size (thanks @vhe182 GH-1220)
  • Add ProfitBricks cloud api v3 support (thanks @aajdinov GH-1264)
  • Enable OpenStack Cinder Volume Type Option (thanks @rossmartyn04 GH-1197)

New features:

  • Add dpb_wordcount_benchmark (GH-1253)

Enhancements:

  • Add helpmatch usage instructions (GH-1268)
  • Add openStack_volume_type option decoder (GH-1267)
  • Upgrade OpenStack CLI dependency to 3.6.0 (GH-1265)
  • Add object storage service cold reads support, various improvements (GH-1290, GH-1274)
  • Add support for AWS Spot Instances (GH-1288)
  • Bump fio version to v2.17 and enable histogram (GH-1300)
  • Let publisher.py republish already-collected samples (GH 1299)
  • Allow specifying temp dir (GH-1277)
  • Add --json_write_mode (GH-1276)
  • Allow override hpcc binaries (GH-1269)

Bug fixes and maintenance updates:

  • Lock samples json file before writing to it (GH-1265)
  • Fixed exception caused by publishers being None (GH-1302)
  • Add error and warning log level options to reduce log size (GH-1301)
  • Use force for DigitalOcean deletes (GH-1281)
  • Print helpmatch usage instructions (GH-1280)
  • Fix fio parser regex (GH-1275)
  • Specify AWS region when calling describe-images (GH 1273)
  • Make CheckPrerequisites more comprehensive (GH-1272)
  • Use image_project flag in disk creation if set (GH-1271)
  • Minor bug fixes and configuration improvements (GH-1262)

v1.10.0

External contributions:

  • Re-write flag_util_test.py so it's easier to read (thanks @yilei GH-1244)
  • Fix bug that prevents running bonnie++ on Azure (thanks @rgodha GH-1218)
  • Add kernel compile benchmark (thanks @maggiejiao GH-1215, GH-1255)
  • Change the documentation to reflect that work should be on master (thanks @besanradwan GH-1209)
  • Add flags to capture latency, bandwidth and IOPS logs in Fio benchmark (thanks @meteorfox GH-1205)
  • Re-add 'vm_util' object to fix broken master branch (thanks @vhe182 GH-1196)
  • Add EPEL Repo to Silo Installation (thanks @akrzos GH-1153)

New features:

  • Add GPU PCIe bandwidth test (GH-1234, GH-1250, GH-1252, GH-1254)
  • Add blazemark (GH-1145)
  • Add simple memcached ycsb benchmark based on aerospike ycsb benchmark (GH-1199)
  • Add scimark2 installation package (GH-1185)

Enhancements:

  • Use FLAGS.aws_user_name if set for Rhel (GH-1249)
  • Fio enhancements (GH-1246)
  • Use aes128-ctr if aes128-cbc isn't available (GH-1242)
  • Make aeropsike able to run with raw devices on static vms (GH-1243)
  • Add some metadata to netperf samples (GH-1236)
  • Remove unneeded Azure code and add availability sets (GH-1232)
  • Add cassandra read concurrency flag (GH-1233)
  • Add a metadata attribute 'ssd_count' to spark_service (GH-1229)
  • Add a metadata attribute 'spark_svc_cloud' to spark_service (GH-1226)
  • Add ability to specify boot_disk_size in AWS vm spec (GH-1231)
  • Add a metadata attribute 'spark_svc_cloud' (GH-1236)
  • Set a default zone for the spark test to allow for subnet creation (GH-1222)
  • Update the location of the spark examples jar on the emr cluster (GH-1222)
  • Persist package installation across reboots (GH-1185)
  • Allow mongodb_ycsb to specify readahead settings (GH-1256)

Bug fixes and maintenance updates:

  • Close Aersospike connection in 1 second (GH-1241)
  • Fix bug with having multiple Azure data disks (GH-1223)
  • Fix aws spark service (GH-1222)
  • Add some git ignore entries (GH-1222)
  • Fix gcs credential conflict (GH-1221)
  • Fix bug with run_processes (GH-1212)
  • Remove collector from RunBenchmarkTask args (GH-1210)
  • Add the minimum tox version to the "tox is not installed" message (GH-1201)
  • Move sysbench05plus path prefix logic into package (GH-1185)
  • Fix bug with specifying Azure image (GH-1204)
  • Fix two files that were failing boilerplate check (GH-1203)
  • Update README.md (GH-1200)

1.9.0

New features:

  • Add config file imports and allow for circular imports and add documentation (GH-1163)
  • Add a way to run benchmarks in parallel (GH-1192)

Enhancements:

  • ContainerizedDebianMixin: Ping to a fixed docker image and remove the sudo hack (GH-1171)
  • Auto detect openjdk, libsnappy package versions (GH-1181)
  • Add flags to govern subnet creation and Optionally create only 1 subnet (GH-1182)
  • Install docker images as packages (GH-1184)
  • Call FLAGS.get_help if it's available (GH-1187)
  • Publish boot time samples for all tests (GH-1156)

Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

  • Update requirements.txt to set version of contextlib2 (GH-1164)
  • Fix bug with config flags (GH-1165)
  • Updated the cloudsuite web-serving benchmark (thanks @nooshin-mirzadeh, GH-1166)
  • Fix load command parsing (GH-1168)
  • openstack: Open all TCP and UDP ports for the internal network (GH-1169)
  • Fix aerospike metadata (GH-1170)
  • Adjust aerospike default replication factor (GH-1172)
  • Try replacing FlagValues._flags instead of FlagValues.FlagDict first (GH-1175)
  • Fix ycsb aggregator (GH-1176)
  • Fix bug during cleanup phase of object_storage_service benchmark (GH-1178)
  • Netperf thinktime fixes and support think time in nanoseconds instead of microseconds (GH-1179, GH-1186, GH-1188)
  • Fix sysbench05plus installation on ubuntu16.04 (GH-1183)
  • Fix race condition in Aerospike benchmark (GH-1190)
  • Clean up some pickling, unpickling issues (GH-1191)
  • Calculate free ram with more robust /proc/meminfo instead of free(GH-1194)
  • Fix multithread netperf (GH-1149)
  • Multiple fixes and refactoring of the linux package management on vms (GH-1152)
  • Fix dstat metadata in Analyze (GH-1154)
  • Obey flag overrides for static vm specs (GH-1155)
  • Fix links in README file for OpenStack and Cloudstack setup steps (thanks @shakhat, GH-1157)
  • Fix issue with GetConfig using flags (GH-1160)
  • Remove scratch disk from netperf and object_storage_service benchmark (GH-1147, GH-1148)
  • Netperf changes to add num_streams metadata to samples (GH-1177)

1.8.1

Bugfixes and maintanence updates:

  • Fixed default machine type for Azure (GH-1161)

1.8.0

New features:

  • Multithreaded netperf benchmark (GH-1141, GH-1144)
  • Terasort benchmark using spark service infrastructure (GH-1104)
  • Support 10 or more disks on Azure (GH-1102)
  • Add sysctl and set_files flags (GH-1096)
  • Support DigitalOcean block storage (GH-1092)
  • Add cloudsuite_data_serving_rec_count and cloudsuite_data_serving_op_count parameters to cloudsuite_data_serving benchmark (GH-1091)
  • Add support for setting GCE boot disk size and type (GH-1106)
  • Add flag to skip reload on ycsb benchmark (GH-1108)
  • Support for AWS dedicated hosts (GH-1109)
  • Object storage multistream write-only scenario (GH-1123)
  • Allow multiple configs for the same benchmark in the same file (GH-1126)
  • Add flat that allows run retries (GH-1129)
  • Add fio_parameters flag (GH-1131)
  • Add config matrices (GH-1134)
  • Add events at the beginning and end of benchmarks (GH-1135)
  • Add extra_zones flag to pkb (GH-1137)
  • Add flag matrix filters (GH-1138)
  • Support allowing port ranges on Firewall.AllowPort (GH-1139)
  • Add static vm tags (GH-1142)

Breaking changes:

  • Because of GH-1112, region names have changed.

Enhancements:

  • Allow speccpu to run individual test (GH-1113)
  • Use Azure resource management mode (GH-1112)
  • GCP networks use subnets (GH-1087)
  • Add top level flags key to configs (GH-1125)
  • Precise resource usage for YCSB benchmarks (GH-1127)

Bugfixes and maintanence updates:

  • Fix bugs with Terasort (GH-1136)
  • Don't run container commands as sudo with ContainerizedDebianMixin (GH-1130)
  • Automatically use amazon linux if os_type is rhel (GH-1124)
  • Removed Panda as a dependency (GH-1118, GH-1119)
  • Allow flag_util.ParseKeyValuePairs values to have colons in them (GH-1117)
  • Add ycsb to data directory (GH-1116)
  • Fix bug in mongodb_ycsb_benchmark cleanup (GH-1115)
  • Fix bug where static VM disk specs were overriden (GH-1105)
  • Use string formatting instead of addition to concatenate (GH-1103)
  • Fixed regression with fio flag (GH-1097)
  • Fix flags in static vm files (GH-1093)
  • Fix wait_for_command.py: wait for status file to avoid race condition (GH-1090)

1.7.0

New features:

  • Add ProfitBricks provider (thanks @tjb1019, GH-1005)
  • Add YCSB JDBC benchmark (thanks @k1xme, GH-1049)
  • Add support for st1 and sc1 disks on EBS (GH-1067)

Breaking changes:

  • Change default gce_migrate_on_maintenance to True (GH-1069)

Enhancements:

  • Update OpenStack provider to use OpenStacks CLI instead of python library (thanks @meteorfox, GH-942)
  • Improve side-by-side tool (GH-1034)
  • Specify flags to metadata (GH-1047)
  • Allow Java version for Java benchmarks to be selected via command line (GH-1051)
  • Add numjobs runtime option to fio_benchmark (GH-1066)
  • Add netperf histogram support (GH-1072)
  • Add multi-vm support for object_storage_service_benchmark (GH-1074)
  • Add support for custom s3 endpoints for object_storage_service_benchmark (GH-1078)
  • Add user-defined metadata for vms (GH-1080)

Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

  • Refactor object_storage_service_benchmark (GH-1023)
  • Support overriding ycsb_client_vms in benchmark spec (thanks @k1xme, GH-1042)
  • Update YCSB to 0.9.0 and support latest logging format (thanks @k1xme, GH-1043)
  • Fix zones flag (GH-1044)
  • Update Bigtable to v2 API (thanks @tswast, GH-1045)
  • Update maven version to 3.3.9 (GH-1046)
  • Start background workload in prepare stage and stop in cleanup stage (GH-1048)
  • Minor fixes in flag description (GH-1052)
  • Only upload files needed for API testing script for object_storage_service_benchmark (GH-1053)
  • Fix redis_ycsb benchmark to use multiple processes (GH-1062, GH-1068, GH-1070)
  • Fix bug with custom machine types configs (GH-1077)
  • Fix in documentation of ParseTimeCommandResult (thanks @skorgu, GH-1079)
  • Replace Pandas dependency with Numpy (GH-1081)
  • Turn off OpenBlas threading, improving HPCC on large vms (GH-1084)
  • Cleanup object_storage_serivce benchmark (GH-1085)
  • Cleanup aerospike_ycsb benchmarks (GH-1086)

1.6.0

New features:

  • Apache Spark benchmark (GH-1014,GH-1011)
  • Cloudsuite dataserving benchmark (thanks @ustiugov, GH-930)

Enhancements:

  • Optionally publish VM hostnames in metadata (GH-1020)
  • Control which netperf benchmarks are run via flag (GH-1029)
  • Netperf benchmark reports min and max latency (GH-1013)
  • Add multichase to the google benchmark set (GH-1018)
  • Update Cloudsuite web serving benchmark (thanks @ivonindza, @GH-998)
  • Object storage updates (GH-987)
  • Repeat Run stage (GH-1032)

Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

  • Fix path to cassandra-cli (thanks @adamisrael, GH-1006)
  • Update ycsb version; affects cloud_bigtable_ycsb_benchmark, hbase_ycsb (GH-1021, GH-1025, GH-1031)
  • Use latest gsutil version (GH-1012)
  • Remove duplicate requirements files (GH-975)
  • Update openblas version (GH-1003)
  • Background workload refactor (GH-1033)

1.5.0

New features:

  • Add cloudsuite graph analytics benchmark (thanks @mdrumond; GH-986)
  • Add initial implementation of multichase benchmark (GH-977)
  • Add cloudsuite media streaming benchmark (thanks @ivonindza; GH-993)
  • Add analysis functions for processing multistream object storage benchmark data (GH-905)
  • Add CloudSuite Data-caching benchmark (thanks @neo-apz; GH-970)
  • Add ability to bundle PKB into a python-executable zip file (GH-971)
  • Add os_type for Juju Mixin (thanks @AdamIsrael; GH-764)
  • Add CloudSuite in-memory analytics benchmark (thanks @ivonindza; GH-934)

Breaking changes:

  • Replace the old CloudSuite Web Search benchmark with the docker version (thanks @javpicorel; GH-931)
  • Update Aerospike version (GH-978)

Enhancements:

  • Add --fio_blocksize option (GH-943)
  • Update speccpu2006 benchmark to support iso file (GH-944)
  • Allow --run_stage to specify multiple stages (GH-935)
  • Add flag to control iperf timeout (GH-994)

Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

  • Fix cloud bigtable and hbase (GH-1001)
  • Install openssl for the object storage benchmark (GH-1000)
  • Fix bug in MongoDB YCSB benchmark (GH-999)
  • Change import_util.LoadModulesForPath to also load packages (GH-983)
  • Add 'ap-northeast-2' to the S3 regions table (GH-990)
  • Change check-lint.sh to invoke flake8 via tox (GH-979)
  • Change GetLastRunUri to handle the new temp directory structure (GH-985)
  • Support S3 Signature Version 4 (GH-984)
  • Add back support for python-gflags version 2. (GH-973)
  • Define units.Unit.__ne__ (GH-976)
  • Reorder some PKB initialization steps (GH-965)
  • Move to gflags version 3.0.4 (GH-969)
  • Modify semantics of UnitsParser's convertible_to parameter (GH-968)
  • Add percent (%) as a recognized pint unit (GH-964)
  • Improve Azure CLI version check (GH-967, GH-958)
  • Don't request SSH verbose output when --log_level=debug (GH-962)
  • Move per-provider package requirement files (GH-961)
  • Move pint unit registry code into a separate module (GH-960)
  • Only check python package requirements if requirements.txt exists (GH-959)
  • Changed LoadProvider to accept un-lowered cloud provider name (GH-957)
  • Change bg tests to patch and verify call counts for each VM separately (GH-954)
  • Make BenchmarkSpec.vms order consistent across runs (GH-953)
  • Fix os type related issues and bugs (GH-950, GH-955, GH-952, GH-951, GH-949)
  • Call CheckPrerequisites earlier (GH-947)
  • Add percentiles option to PercentilesCalculator (GH-910)
  • Fix publisher bug when disk_size is None (GH-946)
  • Handle unset PYTHONPATH in tox.ini (GH-941)
  • Add a helper function to BenchmarkConfigSpec to redirect flags (GH-936)
  • Add support for interrupting child threads created by RunThreaded (GH-926)
  • Fix bugs and improve the Cloud Bigtable benchmark (GH-937, GH-933, GH-932)
  • Add a helpful error message if a UnitsParser parses a unitless value (GH-963)

1.4.0

New features:

  • openstack: Add support for optional floating ip pool (thanks @meteorfox, GH-861)
  • openstack: Use Keystone session for handling authentication (thanks @meteorfox, GH-870)
  • Support object storage classes in object storage service benchmarks (GH-895)
  • Add Object Size Distributions in object storage service benchmarks (GH-888)
  • Add MultiStreamThroughput benchmark to object storage benchmarks (GH-840)
  • Adds a SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark which runs against GlusterFS (GH-876)
  • gce_virtual_machine: Support user provided instance metadata (GH-859)

Improvements and fixes:

  • openstack: Wait until VM deletion has been completed (thanks @meteorfox, GH-904)
  • openstack: Fix floating IP allocation and deallocation (thanks @meteorfox, GH-862)
  • rackspace: Fix missing flags bug (thanks @meteorfox, GH-903)
  • Allow user to specify a flag when they run object storage benchmark on GCP, and default that flag to the latest known working version. (GH-925)
  • Update mechanism used to get iperf server process id. (GH-921)
  • Rename variables and improve documentation of BaseOsMixin.PullFile. (GH-923)
  • Fix WindowsMixin._GetNumCpus when more than one Win32_processor exists. (GH-920)
  • Add exception types to except clauses. (GH-893)
  • Add Flag for List Consistency Iterations (GH-889)
  • Add unit tests for scripts (GH-882)
  • Add disk type examples to README.md (GH-871)
  • Copy-edit the README (GH-877)
  • Turn off selinux for mongodb. (thanks @akrzos, GH-867)
  • Use temp files for Popen stdout and stderr in IssueCommand. (GH-878)

1.3.0

External contributions:

  • Add RHEL based virtual machines to OpenStack provider. (thanks @akrzos; GH-858)
  • Change rackspace provider information to use official CLI (thanks @meteorfox; GH-844)
  • Add rackspace requirements (thanks @meteorfox; GH-805)

New features:

  • Support flags in YAML format. (GH-857)
  • Check version of required packages at runtime (GH-834)
  • User-specified multiregion for GCS benchmarking (GH-845)
  • Support metadata for gcp instances (GH-859)

Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

  • Change rackspace's AllowPort to enable UDP (thanks @meteorfox; GH-805)
  • Allow most recent verison gcs-oauth2-boto-plugin (GH-849)
  • Require Pint >= 0.7 (GH-850)
  • Update PIP (GH-842)
  • Fix windows log message (GH-832)
  • Properly Pickle Pint Quantities (GH-830)
  • os_type added to boot benchmark metadata (GH-826)
  • Better handle Azure timeouts (GH-825)
  • Better handling of AWS integration tests. (GH-869, GH-868)

1.2.0

New features:

  • Introduced Object Sizes in flags (GH-808).
  • Add ListDecoder for verifying a config option that expects list values (GH-807).

Enhancements:

  • Bump HBase to 1.0.3 in hbase_ycsb benchmark (GH-822).
  • Change MockFlags to be more like the real FlagValues (GH-812).
  • Rename test_flag_util.py and add FlagDictSubstitution tests (GH-811).
  • Create BenchmarkConfigSpec to aggregate benchmark input checking (GH-810).
  • Remove flag proxy objects (GH-802).

Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

  • Fix sample iperf config (GH-801).
  • FixIntDecoder and FloatDecoder behavior when min=0 or max=0 (GH-800).

1.1.0

External contributions:

  • Add additional percentile samples to mysql_service benchmark and others (thanks @zbjornson; GH-729).
  • Add Mesos-Marathon as a provider (thanks @mateusz-blaszkowski; GH-679, GH-731).
  • Use only available floating-ips for OpenStack (thanks @meteorfox; GH-733).
  • Add OpenStack CLI-based support for object_storage_service benchmark (thanks @meteorfox; GH-738).
  • Make printed benchmark results more readable (thanks @wonderfly; GH-747).
  • Clean up formatting, grammar, and markdown in README.md (thanks @mbrukman; GH-748).
  • Add links to projects and licenses in README.md (thanks @mbrukman; GH-763).
  • Fix a bug that caused --helpxml to not work (thanks @jldiaz; GH-782).
  • Make OpenStack VM username configurable with a new --openstack_image_username flag (thanks @lwatta; GH-788).

New features:

  • Allow users to specify a storage region for the object_storage_service benchmark with a new --object_storage_region flag (GH-609).
  • Add support for running a background CPU workload while executing a benchmark (GH-715, GH-762).
  • Allow creating GCE custom VMs easily from command-line flags (GH-727).
  • Add the --gce_network_name to allow GCE users to use pre-existing networks (GH-746).
  • Publish a PTRANS sample from the hpcc benchmark (GH-785).
  • Add support for running a background network workload while executing a benchmark (GH-786).
  • Add a CSV sample output format (GH-791).

Enhancements:

  • Trim blocks while formatting and mounting disks (GH-692).
  • Raise an error when no requests succeed in redis_benchmark (GH-702).
  • Update the Google benchmark set (GH-705).
  • Add input-checking to disk specs (GH-675, GH-779).
  • Let disks on Windows machines return Windows DeviceIds (GH-743).
  • Speed up Cassandra cluster boot by setting "auto_bootstrap" to false (GH-751).
  • Defer package update for Ubuntu (GH-752).
  • Add provider-specific requirements.txt files (GH-753).
  • Increase preload thread count for YCSB benchmarks (GH-760). This change affects some of the samples generated by the aerospike_ycsb, cassandra_ycsb, and mongodb_ycsb benchmarks, including the overall Runtime and overall Throughput.
  • Guarantee order of VM and disk spec config option decoding (GH-792).

Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

  • Create one AWS VPC/IGW/PlacementGroup per region (GH-687, GH-798).
  • Update README.md instructions for setting up PKB for GCE (GH-689).
  • Update comments in pkb.py to reflect new provision and teardown stages (GH-691).
  • Fix bug that prevented object_storage_service benchmark from running in stages (GH-694).
  • Add test helpers that make it easier to mock command-line flags (GH-695, GH-730).
  • Delete set-interrupts.sh (GH-703).
  • Make process exit status non-zero upon benchmark failure (GH-713).
  • Move "To run again" message from teardown to cleanup stage (GH-714).
  • Fix creation of AWS VMs using Placement Groups (GH-721).
  • Create AWS/GCE default access rules before creating VMs (GH-726, GH-756). This change affects the Boot Time measured by the cluster_boot benchmark.
  • Fix a GCE boot disk creation bug (GH-736).
  • ntttcp benchmark fixes (GH-737).
  • Force mongodb_ycsb benchmark to use only one VM (GH-755).
  • Unmount /mnt if it exists prior to creating a scratch filesystem (GH-757).
  • Move provider constants to a separate module (GH-758).
  • Fix a bug when creating an AWS VPC outside the user's default region (GH-774).
  • Add tests for generating help strings (GH-782).
  • Kill servers started by the iperf benchmark as part of its cleanup (GH-784).
  • Fix some style inconsistencies (GH-789).
  • Move operating system constants to a separate module (GH-790).
  • Fix some broken tests (GH-795, GH-796).

1.0.1

  • Fix for benchmark_compatibility_checking flag. (thanks @mateusz-blaszkowski; GH-707)

1.0.0

New features:

  • Added decoders to configs which allow for additional config validation (GH-672)
  • Add support for GCE custom VMs (GH-664)
  • Providers can now selectively support benchmarks (GH-690)

Breaking changes:

  • Enhanced config usage by multi-node benchmarks - this changes some of their default metadata. (GH-669)
  • YCSB histogram results are now not included by default (GH-656)

Enhancements:

  • Ping benchmark is now bi-directional (GH-685)
  • Metadata flag can be specified multiple times (GH-684)
  • Allow AWS regions as well as zones (GH-658)
  • Added 'vm_count' metadata to all benchmarks (GH-659)
  • GCP now creates networks (GH-648)
  • Added provision and teardown run_stages (GH-652)
  • Update tomcat_wrk to report more samples (GH-650)
  • Add a flag to control the log file log level (GH-651)

Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

  • Added helper for mocking FLAGS (GH-678)
  • Fix for silo benchmark which fails when running behind proxy (thanks @mateusz-blaszkowski; GH-680)
  • Fix for not-installed curl package (thanks @mateusz-blaszkowski; GH-681)
  • Invoke YCSB from its installation directory (GH-677)
  • Fix bug with detecting run_uris (GH-673)
  • Fix the image_project flag so it works as intended (thanks @wonderfly; GH-666)
  • Add explicit --boot-disk-auto-delete to GCE VM creation (GH-670)
  • Improved the README layout and fixed errors (GH-661, GH-660)
  • Broaden exception caught during PKB run (GH-667)
  • Fixed bug with run stages (GH-665)
  • Fixed formatting of docstring (thanks @wonderfly; GH-662)
  • Fixed bug with GCP networks (GH-663)
  • Add GetMachineTypeDict() to replace machine_type in Sample metadata (GH-653)
  • Add GcloudCommand helper (GH-649)
  • Fixed Tomcat download URL (GH-700)
  • Retry RemoteCopy operations (GH-699)
  • Various fixes to data disks for OpenStack (thanks @meteorfox; GH-688)

0.24.0

New features:

  • CS2 rachel web serving benchmark (thanks @rmend016; GH-451)
  • Add AliCloud provider (thanks @hicrazyboy; GH-611)
  • Add tomcat/wrk benchmark (GH-598)

Breaking changes:

  • Remove --parallelism flag (GH-633)
  • Rename fio flags (GH-518, GH-581)
  • Added new disk type options to clarify use. (Breaking change) we will remove the current options in a coming release (GH-599)

Enhancements:

  • Docker support in DigitalOcean and StaticVirtualMachine (thanks @maxking; GH-528)
  • Always use latest Azure package (GH-585)
  • Support read/counter_read/mixed in cassandra_stress benchmark (GH-607, GH-592)
  • Add pretty-printed benchmark run summary table (GH-620)
  • Support new configs in the Cloudsuite web serving benchmark (GH-605)

Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

  • Move providers to their own directory (GH-617)
  • Automatically register VM classes and specs (GH-600)
  • Only load needed provider modules (GH-635, GH-636)
  • Prefix benchmark and packages directories with linux_ (GH-640)
  • Update to OpenStack Nova (thanks @meteorfox; GH-613)
  • Add AUTHORS file; update copyright header (GH-618)
  • Continue executing benchmarks after one fails (GH-614)
  • Disk integration tests for GCE, AWS, Azure (GH-571, GH-595)
  • Update Windows cluster_boot benchmark to match Linux one (GH-647)
  • Update README for lazy-loading providers (GH-645)
  • Only call SetupPackageManager if install_packages is True (GH-644)
  • Generate per-VM-group SSH aliases (GH-639)
  • Move AWS and Azure _GetDefaultImage calls to _CreateDependencies (GH-641)
  • Get Azure default image name from azure vm image list (GH-637)
  • Add boto lib version to object storage benchmark metadata (GH-632)
  • Improve the guide on using Docker (thanks @mateusz-blaszkowski; GH-628)
  • Improvements to VM pool handling (GH-626, GH-608)
  • Make benchmark metadata specify benchmark name (GH-615)
  • Support overriding Azure client lib version (GH-587)
  • Update Cassandra version to 2.1.10 (GH-577)

v0.23.0

Known Issues:

  • Resources fail to be cleaned up when PerfKitBenchmarker receives SIGINT while running with --parallel (GH-529).

New Features:

  • Added CloudStack provider support (thanks @syed; GH-558).
  • ❢ BREAKING CHANGE: Added a more flexible benchmark configuration system (GH-510, GH-546). This supports running the same benchmark multiple times, and running a benchmark using heterogeneous machine types and clouds. See the wiki for more information. This replaces the configuration system under perfkitbenchmarker/deployment.
  • New benchmark: redis_ycsb, which runs YCSB against a single YCSB node (GH-511).

Enhancements:

  • Added flag: --archive_bucket, to archive the results of a run to Google Cloud Storage or S3 (GH-489).
  • Added --prefill_device option to fio benchmark. Note that the fio benchmark now defaults to not pre-filling the device when testing against a filesystem (GH-515, FH-516).
  • Updated cloud_bigtable_ycsb benchmark to pre-split table, following HBase recommendions (GH-524).
  • Added additional logging to LinuxVirtualMachine.RobustRemoteCommand (GH-534).
  • Added support for local disks with EC2 d2 types.
  • Kubernetes: Support emptyDisk disk types (thanks @mateusz-blaszkowski GH-565).
  • cluster_boot: Add num_vms metadata (GH-575).
  • Add published run_uri to VM metadata (GH-579).
  • Add a flag to specify the Azure Python library version in object storage benchmark, default to the latest version (GH-585, GH-587).

Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

  • Kubernetes: Adapt provider to work with different versions of kubectl (Thanks @mateusz-blaszkowski; GH-574).
  • Eliminated a spurious resource warning (GH-522).
  • Fixed a string comparison bug in Object storage benchmark (GH-526).
  • Rackspace; Removed an extra parameter from firewall implementation (thanks @meteorfox, GH-531).
  • Rackspace: Fixed an SSH key upload bug (thanks @meteorfox, GH-539).
  • Fix an issue with loggin errors in vm_util.RunThreaded (GH-542; thanks @mateusz-blaszkowski for reporting).
  • mongodb_ycsb: Update default write concern to "Acknowledged" (equivalent to the previous deprecated option, safe) (GH-543).
  • Specify SSH port when using SCP (thanks @mateusz-blaszkowski GH-548).
  • Fix string conversion (thanks @mateusz-blaszkowski GH-556).
  • hbase_ycsb: Make load records use a BufferedMutator (GH-566).

v0.22.1

  • Update the default image used in Azure tests to Ubuntu 14.04.3 (runs failed with the current image.) (cherry-pick of #520)

v0.22.0

  • New Features:

    • Add Kubernetes as a provider where benchmarks can be run (thanks @mateusz-blaszkowski) (GH-475)
    • Add EPFL CloudSuite WebSearch Workload (thanks @Vukasin92) (GH-422, GH-479)
    • Aerospike_yscb_benchmark (GH-486)

  • Enhancements:

    • OpenStack checks/changes for attaching volumes, default volume size, config improvements, … (thanks @kivio) (GH-454, GH-459, GH-464)
    • Fio test improvements and clean-up - template files, logging, ... (GH-421, GH-501, GH-502)
    • Add improvement to use compiled crcmod when benchmarking Google Cloud Storage (GH-461)
    • Collect Fio data over time via “--run_for_minutes” flag (GH-477)
    • Execute command improvements to add better logging and parallelism (GH-488, GH-470)

  • Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

    • Update to allow PKB to work with the latest Azure CLI 0.9.9 (GH-485)
    • Updated fio version to 2.2.10 (GH-509)
    • fio iodepth flag fix “--io_depths” (GH-495)
    • Fixes a race condition on AWS/Azure where networks in use were deleted (GH-506)
    • Added a note on how to fix dependencies when tox tests fail (GH-505)
    • Fixed broken Apache project links (GH-492, GH-467)
    • Netperf timeout to work around occasional hangs (GH-483)
    • Fixed lock pickling issues (GH-471)

v0.21.0

  • New features:

    • Add support for OpenStack affinity and anti-affinity groups. (GH-440, thanks to @kivio)
    • Add large object scenario for CLI tests in object_storage_service. (GH-445)
    • Add support for pre-emptible GCE VMs. (GH-415)

  • Enhancements:

    • Parallelize cassandra_ycsb and hbase_ycsb benchmark setups. (GH-435)
    • Add more config options for aerospike benchmark. (GH-450)

  • Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

    • Refactor OpenStack network IP management. (GH-438, thanks to @kivio)
    • Fix thread lock pickling bug. (GH-425, thanks to @kivio)
    • Update jars used in cloud_bigtable_ycsb benchmark. (GH-444)
    • Update YCSB to v0.3.0. (GH-428)
    • Fix object_storage_service bug introduced by Azure breaking change. (GH-446)
    • Fix object storage CLI output format. (GH-449)

v0.20.0

  • Enhancements:

    • Specify project to gcloud alpha bigtable clusters list (GH-433)
    • More Samples in FIO (GH-416)

  • Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

    • pkb label problem in OpenStack driver fixes (GH-410)
    • On exception, only cleanup if run stage is all/cleanup (GH-412)
    • Fix issue with using a flag before flags are parsed (GH-413)
    • Umount disk when running fio against raw device. (GH-417)
    • Clarify warnings from ycsb._CombineResults. (GH-432)

v0.19.0

  • New features:

    • New mysql_service benchmark. This benchmarks a cloud's managed MySQL offering using sysbench. (GH-387)

  • Enhancements:

    • Added option to disable iptables if your image requires it (GH-361)
    • mongodb_ycsb now installs client and server dependencies in parallel, speeding up the end to end run time for the benchmark. (GH-402)
    • The netperf and iperf benchmarks now only add firewall rules if they are running over external ips. (GH-382)

  • Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

    • The iperf package will now check the 'redhat-release' version and install directly from an RPM (this enables iperf to be run on Scientific Linux 6.x). (GH-392, thanks to @Vukasin92)
    • Fix bug where VM temporary directory wasn't created before use on RHEL based static VMs. (GH-389, thanks to @Vukasin92)
    • netperf package url changed since version 2.6.0 is now in archive/ (GH-390)
    • Fixed DigitalOcean package installation error (GH-396)
    • The object_storage_service benchmark no longer copies gcloud logs as part of copying the gcloud configuration to the VM. (GH-383)
    • Correctly cleanup network resources when run stages are used. (GH-386)
    • Added timeout to apt-get update command because it will occasionally hang. (GH-391)
    • Update copy_throughput benchmark so it works with ContainerizedVirtualMachines. (GH-408)
    • Install python inside ContainerizedVirtualMachines so that RobustRemoteCommand works on them. (GH-404)

  • Benchmark-specific changes:

    • speccpu2006 will no longer report results if the run was incomplete. This behavior can be modified with a flag. (GH-397)
    • The mongodb benchmark has been completely removed since mongodb_ycsb replaced it with greater functionality. (GH-403)
    • The fio benchmark now has more latency percentiles included in sample metadata. (GH-399)
    • Cassandra version bumped up to 2.0.16 since 2.0.0 has known issues (GH-393)

v0.18.0

(See also GoogleCloudPlatform#369 which includes this change log with clickable GH-* links.)

  • New features:

    • Support OpenStack as cloud provider (GH-305, GH-353, thanks @kivio and @mateusz-blaszkowski)
    • Support Rackspace as cloud provider (GH-336, thanks @meteorfox and @jrperritt)
    • Add support for ContainerizedVM using docker exec (GH-333, thanks @gablg1)
    • Windows guest VM support on Static VM (GH-350), Azure (GH-349, GH-374), AWS (GH-347), and GCE (GH-338)
    • Add NTttcp Windows networking benchmark (GH-348)

  • Enhancements:

    • Support using proxies in VMs (GH-339, GH-337, thanks @kivio)
    • Enable optional migration on GCE (GH-343)
    • Execute long running commands via a remote agent (GH-310)
    • Add resource creation/deletion times to logs (GH-316)

  • Bugfixes and maintenance updates:

    • Update PKB to work with Azure version 0.9.3 (GH-312)
    • Fix AWS CLI usage on Windows host (GH-313)
    • Auto-fetch AMI IDs for AWS images (GH-364)
    • Fix publisher missing info for default image and machine type (GH-357)
    • Fix 'no attribute pkb_thread_log_context' error for sub-thread logs (GH-322)

  • Benchmark-specific changes:

    • aerospike: config/flag handling bugfixes (GH-367, GH-360, GH-354)
    • cassandra_ycsb: move num_vms prerequisite check
    • fio: add latency percentiles for results (GH-344)
    • hadoop_terasort: Fix bad SSH option (GH-328)
    • iperf: add lower bounds to arguments (GH-314)
    • iperf: add timeout to parallel benchmark runs to handle iperf hangs (GH-375)
    • netperf: Support confidence intervals, increase test length, report stddev (GH-317, GH-306)
    • ycsb: Drop unaggregatable results from samples (GH-324)

  • Development and testing:

    • Breaking Change Automated testing now uses tox (GH-330)
    • Refactored hook scripts, including new opt-in pre-push hook (GH-363)
    • Use travis for CI testing (GH-340)
    • Speed up tests using timeouts (GH-299)

  • Internals:

    • Move defaults from benchmark_spec to VM classes, move network instantiation out of benchmark spec (GH-342)
    • Add event hook support (GH-315)
    • Refactor VM classes (GH-321)

v0.17.0

  • Add initial support for DigitalOcean as a cloud provider (GH-291).
  • Add SciMark2 Benchmark (GH-271, thanks @zlim!).
  • New NoSQL benchmarks: cloud_bigtable_ycsb (GH-283), mongodb_ycsb (GH-279), cassandra_ycsb (GH-278).
  • Allow PerfKitBenchmarker to run on a Windows controller (GH-274).
  • Add a --dstat flag, to collect performance metrics during benchmark runs (GH-282).
  • Add support for parallel iperf clients to the iperf benchmark (GH-262).
  • Add scratch disk information to sample metadata (GH-277).
  • Add a 5 minute timeout to local commands (GH-289, GH-293).
  • Do not use FLAG values in generating benchmark documentation (GH-280).
  • Bump HBase to v1.0.1.1 (GH-281).
  • Fix an issue preventing resources from being cleaned up (GH-276).

v0.16.0

  • Breaking Change Added a new scratch disk type: "local" (ephemeral storage bundled with the instance). As a result, the type "ssd" was changed to "remote_ssd". (GH-253)
  • You can now omit "--run_uri" under certain circumstances. (GH-255)
  • Support for striping multiple scratch disks together has been added. (GH-259)
  • Add hbase_ycsb benchmark. (GH-263)
  • Use the boto API differently when downloading a one byte object to avoid the unnecessary HEAD request (and issue GET request only). (GH-264)
  • Move VM name to BaseVirtualMachine. (GH-265)
  • Write an SSH config file to the run temp directory. (GH-266)
  • Fix a typo in package_managers.py. (GH-267)
  • Add a Cassandra package. (GH-268)
  • GCE: do not restart on host failure. (GH-273)
  • Fix Hash Sum mismatch errors. (GH-275)

v0.15.0

  • Add ability to inject environment variables to IssueCommand. (GH-231)
  • More SPEC CPU 2006 execution flexibility. (GH-230)
  • Enable different disk types for cassandra_stress test. (GH-252)
  • Add the option to skip installing packages. (GH-223)
  • Expose VM count and scratch disk requirements in help. (GH-240, GH-241)
  • Add iops and against device flag. (GH-236)
  • Netperf: Parse CSV output; add p50, p90, p99. (GH-222)
  • Logging fixes and enhancements. (GH-68)
  • Fixes some apt-get update flakiness. (GH-250)
  • Updates AWS to use _Exists for resources. (GH-228)
  • Fixes small bug wth GCP metadata. (GH-242)
  • Call benchmark specific cleanup() when there is exception. (GH-239)
  • Fix the command that creates a storage account for Azure. (GH-238)
  • Defines BENCHMARK_INFO for all benchmarks. (GH-232)
  • Fixes issue with retry. (GH-233)
  • Make resource deletion continue even when exceptions are thrown. (GH-224)
  • Fix a DivideByZeroError in side-by-side. (GH-226)

v0.14.0

  • Added the Silo filesystem benchmark (GH-170)
  • Added Azure Blobs support to the object_storage_service_benchmark (GH-209)
  • Logging now prints in color to make it easier to read (GH-212)
  • Improvement to allow SSH port selection is static machine configs (GH-201)
  • Bug fix for the filesystem workloads when using PIOPS (GH-190)
  • Bug fixes for the side-by-side tool to use the right workload name. (GH-220)
  • Bug fix for a race condition in an exception path that could leave resources behind (GH-214)

v0.13.0

  • Show metadata in StreamPublisher. (GH-178)
  • Breaking Change: Use parser to extract fio benchmark results, and change metric name from job_name:bandwidth/latency to job_name:read/write:bandwidth/latency. (GH-192)
  • Add unit test to check proper handling of scratch disk property. (GH-191)
  • Fix bug where exceptions raised in a runthreaded thread may not have been raised after the threads had been joined. (GH-194)
  • Stop mutating globals in GetInfo. (GH-198)
  • New Benchmark: oldisim. (GH-200)
  • Add oldisim benchmark to google_set and stanford_set.
  • Add max_throughput_for_completion_latency_under_1ms metric to redis and aerospike benchmarks. (GH-203)

v0.12.1

  • Fix a tagging issue from prior release (v.0.11.0) where a prior commit made directly to master was not properly included.

v0.12.0

  • Add per-phase timestamp samples (GH171)
  • Regex improvement (GH182)
  • Fix a bug in mesh network benchmarks (GH163)
  • Fix for running on AWS when user has a non-JSON output format configured(GH167)
  • Clarify how to provide scratch disk for static VMs (GH166)
  • Add benchmark name, run URI to log messages (GH157)
  • Fix fio_benchmark to support static VMs (GH162)
  • Optional patch to the unix bench for 16+ core VMs (GH 135)

v0.11.1

  • Fixed CHANGES.md

v0.11.0

  • Create Intel benchmark set (integrate from main v0.10.1)
  • Support adding custom resource tags to AWS and GCE runs
  • Limited hadoop terasort resource usage to 90% of the VM available memory
  • Download and install package epel-release if not present
  • Fixed dead link in README.md

v0.10.0

  • Various improvements to object_storage_service benchmarks. This includes reporting results in percentiles, adding a list consistency benchmark, and more. (GH-100 through GH110).
  • Rename test_sample to sample_test. (GH-111)
  • Updated the EPEL repo on RHEL and CentOS to use epel-release available through yum rather than a downloaded rpm. (GH-99)
  • Added more benchmark sets

v0.9.0

  • Breaking change: removed --json_output flag. JSON samples are always written (GH-41).

  • Breaking change: object_storage_service requires a .boto file configured for AWS and GCS to function.

  • Breaking change: updated benchmark names to be more consistent (GH-72). Specific changes:

    • cassandra → cassandra_stress
    • copy_benchmark → copy_throughput
    • fio_benchmark → fio
    • hadoop_benchmark → hadoop_terasort
    • mesh_benchmark → mesh_network
    • netperf_simple → netperf
    • object_storage_benchmark → object_storage_service
    • synthetic_storage_workloads_benchmark → block_storage_workload
    • sysbench_oltp_benchmark → sysbench_oltp
    • UnixBench_benchmark → unixbench

  • Added support for C4 instance types on EC2 (GH-63).

  • Added support for specifying --product_name on the command line (GH-55).

  • Added side-by-side comparison tool (GH-39, GH-61, GH-62).

  • Factored out package management to support RHEL, CentOS (GH-54).

  • Improved accuracy of cluster boot time (GH-69, GH-73).

  • Introduced a class to represent performance samples (GH-71)

  • Updated Hadoop benchmark to calculate per-core terasort throughput (GH-75).

  • Added a results parser for bonnie++ benchmark (GH-70).

  • Added a results parser for fio benchmark (GH-32).

  • Added prerequisite checking to benchmarks (GH-49).

  • Switch to Apache distribution of Cassandra (GH-92).

  • Improved default behavior for machine types with no local storage (GH-88).

  • Updated object_storage_service benchmark to test both command line tool performance and direct API calls (GH-59, GH-90).

  • Added benchmark sets: predefined collections of benchmarks to run (GH-80).

  • Modified HPCC benchmark to use 80% of available memory rather than 80% of total. Prevents crashes on low-memory systems (GH-81).

  • Updated the default Azure image (GH-84).

  • Improved the Cassandra stress benchmark to incorporate a user-specified number of rows, with defaults that run on all cloud platforms with default quotas (GH-31).

  • Improved the Cassandra stress benchmark to incorporate a user-specified number of cassandra-stress threads on client node, with defaults of 50 (originally default was 300 which caused the benchmark to crash on small instance types). As a result, on large instance types, the throughput reported by cassandra-stress tool is lower than previous version (GH-31).

v0.8.0

  • Documentation cleanup (GH-19, GH-34).
  • Fix incorrect assignment of ip_type metadata in netperf_simple benchmark (GH-26).
  • Added --gcloud_scopes flag, to support providing permissions to created instances on GCP.
  • Changed GCP default image from debian-7-backports to ubuntu-14-04. All cloud providers now run Ubuntu 14.04 by default (GH-43).
  • Added results parser for MongoDB (GH-36) and UnixBench++ (GH-45).
  • Improved unit test coverage (GH-21).

v0.7.1

  • GCE VM SSH keys are now provided via a temporary file rather than the command line, which fixes a compatibility issue between versions of gcloud (GH-19).

v0.7.0

  • New benchmark: aerospike (GH-13).
  • iperf: Run benchmark in both directions (VM A -> VM B and B -> A) (GH-7).
  • hadoop_benchmark: Bump Hadoop to version 2.5.2 (GH-5).
  • synthetic_storage_workloads_benchmark: Fix IO sizes passed to fio.
  • Add a verbose log to /tmp/perfkitbenchmarker/run_<run_uri>/perfkitbenchmarker.log (exact file name announced to stderr at start of run) (GH-3).
  • Merge perfkitbenchmarker_lib into vm_util (GH-9)
  • Refactor result publishing and metadata collection (GH-10).
  • Add a Google Cloud Storage publisher (GH-14)
  • Change the default Azure machine type to "Small".
  • Added unit tests.
  • Style fixes.

v0.6.0

Initial release under Apache 2.0 license.

Unreleased

v0.5.1

  • Fix for HPCC result parser.
  • Fix MySQL configuration in sysbench OLTP benchmark.

v0.5

v0.5 contains primarily bugfixes and internal improvements.

New dependency: jinja2. Install with pip install jinja2.

New Benchmarks:

  • synthetic_storage_workloads_benchmark: new fio benchmarks to simulate logging, database and streaming workloads.

Fixes and usability improvements:

  • Bugfixes in Cassandra benchmark: variable redefinition, invalid method name.
  • Add default config file for Cassandra benchmark.
  • Add an --ip_addresses flag for networking benchmarks
  • Replace sed with jinja2 templates for Hadoop configuration.
  • Make the default image Debian backports for GCE.
  • Add scratch disks for static VMs.
  • No longer specifying absolute path to azure.
  • Fixe a bug preventing AWS t2 types from working.
  • Add local drives.
  • Run scp copy benchmark on internal IP if accessible.
  • Give immediate feedback on an exception during an Artemis run.
  • Add placement groups for AWS.
  • Add a method to burn cpu and dirty cache.
  • Standardize SCP zone metadata to match iperf, netperf

v0.4

New Benchmarks:

  • Add a Cassandra benchmark.

New features of note:

  • Static VM files are now JSON format, support the optional zone specification.

Fixes:

  • Fix coremark compilation on Ubuntu 14.04.
  • Do not include network creation time in VM creation time.
  • Set GCE VMs to terminate on host maintenance rather than live migrating.
  • Enable DNS hostnames on AWS.
  • Fixed configuration error in Hadoop benchmark.
  • Fixed an error in dd benchmark.

v0.3

New Benchmarks:

New features of note: Resource tagging -

  • Add a "user" tag defaulting to the logged in user name to GCE and EC2 VMs.

Fixes:

  • VMs, Networks, and disks now inherit from resource.BaseResource for uniform resource lifecycle management.
  • Update object_storage_benchmark match latest CLI from all providers; retrieve credentials file from default location for each cloud provider.
  • Add setstate and getstate methods so that pickling of GCE and AWS firewalls works again
  • Exit with an error when invalid benchmark names are specified.
  • Add support for running hadoop_benchmark on EC2.
  • Upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise) to 14.04 LTS (Trusty) on AWS and Azure.
  • Fix AzureDisk to be compatible with the latest version of the CLI

v0.2

  • Added end to end run time metric.
  • Renamed storage_benchmark to object_storage_benchmark.
  • Embedded PerfKitBenchmarker version in published metadata.
  • Improved help message in PerfKitBenchmarker.
  • Allow PerfKitBenchmarker to use multiple types of VMs and multiple disks with different sizes in a single benchmark.
  • Fixed iperf parsing regex results
  • Cleaned up versioning - Checked out specific versions from git in the MongoDB, OpenBLAS, Redis, and storage benchmarks.
  • Fixed corner cases in SPEC 2006 causing it to fail on large instances.

v0.1

  • Support static vms (i.e. machine not provisioned via Cloud APIs. We call all machines VMs). All static VMs provided will be used before any non-static VMs are provisioned.
  • See static_virtual_machine.py for detailed description.
  • Added copy benchmark.
  • Added storage benchmark.
  • Added ping benchmark.
  • Added SpecCPU2006 benchmark.

v0.0

Initial release.