Redshift Test Drive

Introduction

Redshift Test Drive is an amalgamation of Redshift Replay and Node Config. The Redshift Replay consits of Workload Replicator, Replay Analysis and External Object Replicator.

Prerequisites

Install the following packages before cloning the repository:
1. Install git

yum install git

2. Install pip3:

yum install pip3

3. Install make:

yum install make

Preparations

Clone the git repository using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/aws/redshift-test-drive
cd redshift-test-drive/
export REDSHIFT_TEST_DRIVE_ROOT=$(pwd)

Create a virtual environment inside the redshift-test-drive directory
```
python3 -m venv testDriveEnv
source testDriveEnv/bin/activate
```
Execute the following command from the root directory to install all the required packages:
```
cd $REDSHIFT_TEST_DRIVE_ROOT && make setup
```
Refer to the Table of Content which will point out the different tools and README links of your interest.
Finally after using the utility to run different benchmarks to deactivate virtual environment, run the following
```
deactivate
```

Table of Content

The following table provides links to all tools, locations & READMEs in the repository

Index	Tool	Description	README links
01	Workload Replicator	Workload Replicator is an open source tool which helps customers to mimic their workloads on clusters	README
02	Replay Analysis	Replay Analysis utility enhances auditing in the Workload Replicator process to extract information about the errors that occurred, the validity of the run, and the performance of the replay. This is also a user interface in which customers can choose multiple replays to analyze, validate, and compare using the extracted audit logs.	README
03	External Object Replicator	External Object Replicator replicates COPY manifest objects, and Spectrum object in the customer cluster	README
04	Node Config	Node Configuration Comparison utility answers a very common question on which instance type and number of nodes should we choose for your workload on Amazon Redshift.	README

FAQs

Q. I’m experiencing issues with boto3 appearing as ValueError: Invalid endpoint: https://s3..amazonaws.com or something to that effect, how do I fix this?

A. aws configure command is a pre-requisite step for most tools within Test drive. Make sure you run aws configure and configure the default region.

Q. My make commands are failing with make: *** No rule to make target , how do I fix this?

A. Make sure you are in the right directory for execution. Make commands are made possible through the Makefile found in the root directory. If you followed the setup instructions, this is aliased to REDSHIFT_TEST_DRIVE_ROOT in your shell.

Security

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.