5.11. Kubernetes DNS performance test plan

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Abstract:This test plan covers scenarios for Kubernetes DNS performance testing.

5.11.1. Test Plan

Kubernetes DNS schedules a DNS Pod and Service on the cluster, and configures the kubelets to tell individual containers to use the DNS Service’s IP to resolve DNS names.

“Normal” (not headless) Services are assigned a DNS A record for a name of the form my-svc.my-namespace.svc.cluster.local. This resolves to the cluster IP of the Service.

Under DNS performance we mean the amount of work produced by a service, for DNS service this can be measured as number of requests for resolving host per second.

5.11.1.1. Test Environment

5.11.1.1.1. Preparation

The test plan is executed against Kubernetes deployed on bare-metal nodes.

5.11.1.1.2. Environment description

The environment description includes hardware specification of servers, network parameters, operation system and OpenStack deployment characteristics.

5.11.1.2. Test Case #1: Performing DNS queries

5.11.1.2.1. Description

In this test case we investigate how number of queries affects Kubernetes DNS performance.

Script code/test_kubedns.py will create Kubernetes services based on file code/template.yaml. After that, will make request to this services by host name. Results will show number of failed hosts.

5.11.1.2.2. Parameters

Case group 1:

Parameter name Value
number of replicas 1, 2, 3
requests per second 50, 100, ..., 1000
number of Services 1000
number of attempts 1000

5.11.1.2.3. List of performance metrics

list of test metrics to be collected during this test
Parameter Description
FAILED_HOSTS Number of hosts, which not be resolved by DNS
SUCCESS_RATE Percentage of successful queries

5.11.2. Reports

Test plan execution reports: