09-18, 17:30–18:00 (Europe/Berlin), Keynote Room BB007
I will demonstrate how I use VirtualBox, vagrant, ansible and Apache Jmeter to run reproducable performance tests of different versions of OwnCloud.
For a full description of the project, see https://github.com/jmdeboer-surfsara/xcloud-performance.
At SURFsara we use this tool to measure performance of a new OwnCloud version before upgrading.
In a nutshell, it starts with a level playing field every time, since installation of sources and populating the database are part of the process. We never go have to go back to old results and compare them with new results, that would not give a clear picture. Rather, we can spin up the environment afresh, be it on a laptop or a high-end server, and re-run the test suite for selected versions, giving a fair comparison.
I will explain the concepts and tools used, give a live demonstration of a short test run, and will present results of longer test, that actually took several days to complete and consisted of millions of requests.
I have over 20 years experience as a linux administrator as well as many years as a PHP developer. I have been working in the SURFdrive team at SURFsara for 2 years now, where we use OwnCloud. My attitude towards performance is "you have to measure it to know anything at all" :)