Systematic Experimentation (with Ansible)

Updated 3/1/2021 Tested on: Ubuntu 18.04.05 GCF 2.10 Ansible 2.9.17

Overview

Create simple node types that can be used to create larger, reproducible topologies.

Experiment Topology and Setup

We build two simple node types (a server and a client).

Based on these two simple node types, we will build a larger topology of 5 nodes.

Additional Materials

Accompanying slides​

Procedure

	Part I: Design/Setup Step 1: Design Experiment Step 2: Establish Management Environment Step 3: Obtain Resources
	Part II: Execute Step 4: Configure and Initialize Services Step 5: Execute Experiment Step 6: Analyze and Visualize Experiment
	Part III: Finish Step 7: Teardown Experiment