Feature Overview 

Customers often want to understand how the forwarding performance of Octavia LB compares with other load balancers available (commercial and open-source). Additionally, customers would like to understand how to dimension the Amphora VMs in terms of CPU and memory to achieve the target forwarding performance. Currently, we do not have reliable forwarding performance benchmark numbers to provide accurate guidance or assess the upper limit for the amphora VM forwarding performance.

Goals

This feature is applicable to all the customers who want to deploy Octavia for loadbalancing services. Objective is to have reliable performance benchmarking data that can be used to provide customer guidance for dimensioning and assessing the scale requirements.

Requirements 

Performance Metrics: Bandwidth (pps), requests/sec, max concurrent connections, connections/sec/ latency

Traffic Type: HTTP, TCP, UDP

Frame size: 62 bytes, 256 bytes, 1024 bytes

Performance measurement with TLS enabled/disabled

Done - Acceptance Criteria 

Performance benchmarking report for the given performance metrics and traffic mix and criterias

Documentation Considerations 

Performance benchmarking report. The report is intended for internal purpose and not to be published on the customer portal.

Team Sign Off (Completion while in Planning status)

• All required Epics (known at the time) are linked to the this Feature
• All required Stories, Tasks (known at the time) for the most immediate Epics have been created and estimated
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