Menguozi / hello-bench

Container startup benchmark tool

HelloBench

HelloBench is originally authored by @changweige. The original repository is not active for quite a long time. I forked the repository from commit a22cae84983bd77187f8f5181de558c2c8dec045. Hello-bench is refined to adapt overlaybd performance test to attract more researcher.

Nowadays, several container image acceleration solutions around containerd and CRI-O/podman are being introduced. This forked project is aiming at building a universal container startup benchmark tool. Acceleration images usually differs OCI images by image tags. So the improved hello-bench can receive image tags now.

Run HelloBench

This repository just contains the benchmark harness than runs various Docker, OCI and other acceleration container images e.g. nydus and stargz and overlaybd.

Please ensure your nerdctl is beyond v0.22

Both docker and containerd can manage container images. Containerd has more a flexible mechanism - snapshots - to add plugin and manage containers images. To run benchmark for different container engines, change hello-bench argument --engine.

• docker for Docker
• nerdctl for Containerd

./hello.py --engine nerdctl --op run --images python:latest
./hello.py --engine docker --op run --images python:latest

# To run benchmark for nydus snapshotter.
./hello.py --engine nerdctl --snapshotter nydus --op run --registry=menguozi --images python:nydusv6

# To run benchmark for overlaybd snapshotter.
./hello.py --engine nerdctl --snapshotter overlaybd --op run --registry=menguozi --images python:latest_obd

Examples

TODO