Extending benchmarking with plugins

The Rally code has been developed to be extendable and enables users to customize their benchmarking tests by writing their own plugins and task definitions. A complete reference of the plugins suite in Rally can be found at http://docs.xrally.xyz/projects/openstack/en/latest/plugins/plugin_reference.html#plugin-reference. This is not limited to task scenarios, but also leverages writing runners, contexts, charts, SLAs, and deployments as plugins.

To list the available plugins referenced in a Rally environment, run the following command:

# rally plugin list  

The next command describes in detail the MagnumClusters.create_and_list_clusters ...

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