[HBASE-11348] Make frequency and sleep times of chaos monkeys configurable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.98.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.99.0
• Labels: integration-tests
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

Added an additional option to IntegrationTestBase class to enable specifying chaos monkey properties. If the properties file is not specified, the monkeys will default to existing values. The new usage looks like the following:
Usage: bin/hbase <sub_class_of_IntegrationTestBase> <options>
 Options: -h,--help Show usage
           -m,--monkey <arg> Which chaos monkey to run
           -monkeyProps <arg> chaos monkey properties file
          -ncc Option to not clean up the cluster at the end.

• Assignee: Vandana Ayyalasomayajula
• Reporter: Vandana Ayyalasomayajula
• Created: 13/Jun/14 20:45
• Updated: 21/Feb/15 23:30
• Resolved: 19/Jun/14 21:51

Description

Currently the chaos monkeys used in the integration tests, run with a fixed configuration. It would be useful to have the frequency, sleep times to be configurable. That would help controlling the chaos the monkeys are intended to create.

Issue Links

• is part of: HBASE-12371 Backport IT improvements to 0.98