Clusterfuck

Clusterfuck is a library for setting up a networked cluster of servers to test failure conditions against. It's a library to fuck with clusters.

Currently it ships with a DSL for EBGP leaf-spine architectures, but has a generic backend that allows configuring any topology.

It's currently using Virtualbox for probably no good reason other than network_lab, which this works derives from, used it. VMWare will be investigated in the future.

Usage

Install the vagrant-clusterfuck Vagrant plugin:

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-clusterfuck

Create a cluster.rb file to define your cluster (see below). This must be a separate file, because it needs to be loaded in your test environment which does not implement the Vagrant DSL.

In your Vagrantfile, build your cluster:

cluster = Clusterfuck::Cluster[:test]
cluster[:host1].build(config) do |box|
  box.vm.provision :shell, inline: "echo 1 > /tmp/test"
end

cluster[:host2].build(config)

For a complete example, see the Vagrantfile and cluster.rb in this repository.

$ vagrant up --provider virtualbox

When making changes to cluster.rb and Vagrantfile make sure to reload and reprovision the cluster:

$ vagrant reload --provision

Building Clusters

Defining a cluster consists of two steps:

  1. Creating instances. You must specify which VMs your topology requires.
  2. Layer 2 network. You must specify the relationships between the VMs, that is, the layer 2 network of which nodes belong to the same subnets and can thus directly communicate with each other.

Please see ./cluster.rb for an annotated example. In the future we may build DSLs on top of the low-level graph DSL.