Policy XACML PDP S3P Tests

Both the Performance and the Stability tests were executed by performing requests against Policy components installed in Kubernetes environment. These tests were all performed on a Ubuntu VM with 32GB of memory, 16 CPU and 100GB of disk space.

Policy XACML PDP Deployment

In an effort to allow the execution of the s3p tests to be as close to automatic as possible, a script will be executed that will perform the following:

Install of a microk8s kubernetes environment
Bring up the policy components
Checks that the components are successfully up and running before proceeding
Install Java 17
Install Jmeter locally and configure it
Specify whether you want to run stability or performance tests

The remainder of this document outlines how to run the tests and the test results

Common Setup

The common setup for performance and stability tests is now automated - being carried out by a script in- testsuites/run-s3p-test.sh.

Clone the policy-xacml-pdp repo to access the test scripts

git clone https://gerrit.onap.org/r/policy/xacml-pdp xacml-pdp

Stability Test of Policy XACML PDP

Test Plan

The 24 hours stability test ran the following steps.

Healthcheck, 2 simultaneous threads
Decisions, 2 simultaneous threads, each running the following tasks in sequence:
- Monitoring Decision
- Monitoring Decision, abbreviated
- Naming Decision
- Optimization Decision
- Default Guard Decision (always “Permit”)
- Frequency Limiter Guard Decision
- Min/Max Guard Decision

This runs for 24 hours. Test results are present in the testsuites/automated-performance/s3pTestResults.jtl file and in /tmp/ directory. Logs are present for jmeter in testsuites/automated-performance/jmeter.log and testsuites/automated-performance/nohup.out

Run Test

The code in the setup section also serves to run the tests. Just one execution needed to do it all.

bash run-s3p-test.sh run stability

Once the test execution is completed, the results are present in the automate-performance/s3pTestResults.jtl file.

This file can be imported into the Jmeter GUI for visualization. The below results are tabulated from the GUI.

Test Results

Summary

Stability test plan was triggered for 24 hours.

Test Statistics

Total # of requests	Error %	Average Latency (ms)	Measured requests/sec
63618103	0.00 %	5 ms	736.064 ms

JMeter Results

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Policy component Setup

NAME	IMAGE	PORT
mariadb-galera-0	docker.io/bitnami/mariadb-galera:10.5.8	3306/TCP
policy-models-simulator-bcd494d87-cldfr	nexus3.onap.org:10001/onap/policy-models-simulator:3.0.2-SNAPSHOT	30904/TCP
policy-apex-pdp-0	nexus3.onap.org:10001/onap/policy-apex-pdp:3.0.2-SNAPSHOT	30001/TCP
prometheus-f66f97b6-kpg5c	nexus3.onap.org:10001/prom/prometheus:latest	30909/TCP
policy-distribution-86777bdd78-95zjx	nexus3.onap.org:10001/onap/policy-distribution:3.0.2-SNAPSHOT	30006/TCP
policy-clamp-ac-http-ppnt-7b99cbfbf8-d5zjk	nexus3.onap.org:10001/onap/policy-clamp-ac-http-ppnt:7.0.3-SNAPSHOT
policy-clamp-ac-pf-ppnt-55c4cb99f4-pp699	nexus3.onap.org:10001/onap/policy-clamp-ac-pf-ppnt:7.0.3-SNAPSHOT	30008/TCP
policy-clamp-ac-k8s-ppnt-6d854cc8b6-nzlgh	nexus3.onap.org:10001/onap/policy-clamp-ac-k8s-ppnt:7.0.3-SNAPSHOT
policy-clamp-runtime-acm-5c6d8fbfb-zww5j	nexus3.onap.org:10001/onap/policy-clamp-runtime-acm:7.0.3-SNAPSHOT	30007/TCP
policy-pap-847d89997d-gljzh	nexus3.onap.org:10001/onap/policy-pap:3.0.2-SNAPSHOT	30003/TCP
policy-xacml-pdp-656d57d578-9h6fx	nexus3.onap.org:10001/onap/policy-xacml-pdp:3.0.2-SNAPSHOT	30004/TCP
policy-api-58cb45fc9b-9qcx6	nexus3.onap.org:10001/onap/policy-api:3.0.2-SNAPSHOT	30002/tcp

Note

There were no failures during the 24 hours test.

The XACML PDP offered very good performance with JMeter for the traffic mix described above. The average transaction time is insignificant.

Performance Test of Policy XACML PDP

Introduction

Performance test of acm components has the goal of testing the min/avg/max processing time and rest call throughput for all the requests with multiple requests at the same time.

Setup Details

We can setup the environment and execute the tests like this from the xacml-pdp/testsuites directory

Test Plan

Performance test plan is the same as the stability test plan above except for the few differences listed below.

Increase the number of threads up to 10 (simulating 10 users’ behaviours at the same time).
Reduce the test time to 20 minutes.

The performance tests runs the following, all in parallel:

Healthcheck, 10 simultaneous threads
Decisions, 10 simultaneous threads, each running the following in sequence:
- Monitoring Decision
- Monitoring Decision, abbreviated
- Naming Decision
- Optimization Decision
- Default Guard Decision (always “Permit”)
- Frequency Limiter Guard Decision
- Min/Max Guard Decision

When the script starts up, it uses policy-api to create, and policy-pap to deploy the policies that are needed by the test. It assumes that the “naming” policy has already been created and deployed. Once the test completes, it undeploys and deletes the policies that it previously created.