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Tools for Google Cloud performance and resource optimization

Friday, December 15, 2023

Over the years, we at Google have identified common requests from customers to optimize their Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud. Today, we are releasing a set of open source tools to help customers with these tasks, including bin packing, load testing, and performance benchmarking. These tools are designed to help customers optimize their clusters for cost, performance, and scalability.

Those identified common requests from customers are around the following use cases:

  1. Google Cloud customers ask whether Google Cloud has a bin packing recommendation feature or tool to optimize GKE Standard's nodes usage?
  2. How to easily run Aerospike, Cassandra, PgBench benchmark or other popular benchmarking tools on Google Cloud?
  3. How to load test our application running on Google Cloud? How many requests per second could my app handle given the current size of the existing Google Cloud infrastructure?

The underlying motivation is that customers want some evidence-based tooling in order to help them optimize their Google Cloud resources, optimize for cost, run benchmarks, identify performance bottlenecks, or even to start a performance discussion.

For such use cases mentioned above, we are open sourcing a set of tools for the public to self-service the installation of each application which comprises UI and Backend components deployable to their respective Google Cloud Project. We name the collection of these tools as sa-tools.


BinPacker

BinPacker recommender for GKE node size
There are currently no bin packing recommendation features available in GCP Cloud Console. We are open sourcing a tool to visually scan your GKE cluster and recommend the optimal node’s bin packing size. Users can opt to select services that are grouped together to be in the same node. The installation guide can be found here.

Perfkit Benchmarker with UI

Perfkit Benchmarker with UI

What if you could install an easy-to-use version of Perfkit Benchmarker (PKB) with a click-and-select UI?

With this version, you could simply select the benchmark tool you want to use from a dropdown menu and provide a YAML configuration file. PKB would then automatically spin up a GKE Autopilot cluster with the configuration you have provided and run the benchmark. You could then view the performance metrics results in the UI.

This easy-to-use version of PKB would make it easier to run benchmarks and compare the performance of different systems, even if you don't have much technical experience. The installation guide can be found here.


Web Performance Testing

gTools Performance Testing

We built an open source UI wrapper on top of Locust, running inside your GCP Project. You can have a Locust farm instance run for a specific group of users in comparison to the generic Locust setup where everyone is able to access the Locust instance. The installation guide can be found here.

For more info on how to raise pull request or give feedback, please check the contributing page in the repository.

By Yudy Hendry, Anant Damle, Kozzy Hasebe, Jun Sheng, and Chuan Chen – Cloud Solutions Architects Team

Google Open Source Peer Bonus program announces second group of 2023 winners

Thursday, December 14, 2023



We are excited to announce the second group of winners for the 2023 Google Open Source Peer Bonus Program! This program recognizes external open source contributors who have been nominated by Googlers for their exceptional contributions to open source projects.

The Google Open Source Peer Bonus Program is a key part of Google's ongoing commitment to open source software. By supporting the development and growth of open source projects, Google is fostering a more collaborative and innovative software ecosystem that benefits everyone.

This cycle's Open Source Peer Bonus Program received 163 nominations and winners come from 35 different countries around the world, reflecting the program's global reach and the immense impact of open source software. Community collaboration is a key driver of innovation and progress, and we are honored to be able to support and celebrate the contributions of these talented individuals from around the world through this program.

We would like to extend our congratulations to the winners! Included below are those who have agreed to be named publicly.

Winner

Open Source Project

Tim Dettmers

8-bit CUDA functions for PyTorch

Odin Asbjørnsen

Accompanist

Lazarus Akelo

Android FHIR

Khyati Vyas

Android FHIR

Fikri Milano

Android FHIR

Veyndan Stuart

AndroidX

Alex Van Boxel

Apache Beam

Dezső Biczó

Apigee Edge Drupal module

Felix Yan

Arch Linux

Gerlof Langeveld

atop

Fabian Meumertzheim

Bazel

Keith Smiley

Bazel

Andre Brisco

Bazel Build Rules for Rust

Cecil Curry

beartype

Paul Marcombes

bigfunctions

Lucas Yuji Yoshimine

Camposer

Anita Ihuman

CHAOSS

Jesper van den Ende

Chrome DevTools

Aboobacker MK

CircuitVerse.org

Aaron Ballman

Clang

Alejandra González

Clippy

Catherine Flores

Clippy

Rajasekhar Kategaru

Compose Actors

Olivier Charrez

comprehensive-rust

John O'Reilly

Confetti

James DeFelice

container-storage-interface

Akihiro Suda

containerd, runc, OCI specs, Docker, Kubernetes

Neil Bowers

CPAN

Aleksandr Mikhalitsyn

CRIU

Daniel Stenberg

curl

Ryosuke TOKUAMI

Dataform

Salvatore Bonaccorso

Debian

Moritz Muehlenhoff

Debian

Sylvestre Ledru

DebianLLVM

Andreas Deininger

Docsy

Róbert Fekete

Docsy

David Sherret

dprint

Justin Grant

ECMAScript Time Zone Canonicalization Proposal

Chris White

EditorConfig

Charles Schlosser

Eigen

Daniel Roe

Elk - Mastodon Client

Christopher Quadflieg

FakerJS

Ostap Taran

Firebase Apple SDK

Frederik Seiffert

Firebase C++ SDK

Juraj Čarnogurský

firebase-tools

Callum Moffat

Flutter

Anton Borries

Flutter

Tomasz Gucio

Flutter

Chinmoy Chakraborty

Flutter

Daniil Lipatkin

Flutter

Tobias Löfstrand

Flutter go_router package

Ole André Vadla Ravnås

Frida

Jaeyoon Choi

Fuchsia

Jeuk Kim

Fuchsia

Dongjin Kim

Fuchsia

Seokhwan Kim

Fuchsia

Marcel Böhme

FuzzBench

Md Awsafur Rahman

GCViT-tf, TransUNet-tf,Kaggle

Qiusheng Wu

GEEMap

Karsten Ohme

GlobalPlatform

Sacha Chua

GNU Emacs

Austen Novis

Goblet

Tiago Temporin

Golang

Josh van Leeuwen

Google Certificate Authority Service Issuer for cert-manager

Dustin Walker

google-cloud-go

Parth Patel

GUAC

Kevin Conner

GUAC

Dejan Bosanac

GUAC

Jendrik Johannes

Guava

Chao Sun

Hive, Spark

Sean Eddy

hmmer

Paulus Schoutsen

Home Assistant

Timo Lassmann

Kalign

Stephen Augustus

Kubernetes

Vyom Yadav

Kubernetes

Meha Bhalodiya

Kubernetes

Madhav Jivrajani

Kubernetes

Priyanka Saggu

Kubernetes

DANIEL FINNERAN

kubeVIP

Junfeng Li

LanguageClient-neovim

Andrea Fioraldi

LibAFL

Dongjia Zhang

LibAFL

Addison Crump

LibAFL

Yuan Tong

libavif

Gustavo A. R. Silva

Linux kernel

Mathieu Desnoyers

Linux kernel

Nathan Chancellor

Linux Kernel, LLVM

Gábor Horváth

LLVM / Clang

Martin Donath

Material for MkDocs

Jussi Pakkanen

Meson Build System

Amos Wenger

Mevi

Anders F Björklund

minikube

Maksim Levental

MLIR

Andrzej Warzynski

MLIR, IREE

Arnaud Ferraris

Mobian

Rui Ueyama

mold

Ryan Lahfa

nixpkgs

Simon Marquis

Now in Android

William Cheng

OpenAPI Generator

Kim O'Sullivan

OpenFIPS201

Yigakpoa Laura Ikpae

Oppia

Aanuoluwapo Adeoti

Oppia

Philippe Antoine

oss-fuzz

Tornike Kurdadze

Pinput

Andrey Sitnik

Postcss (and others: Autoprefixer, postcss, browserslist, logux)

Marc Gravell

protobuf-net

Jean Abou Samra

Pygments

Qiming Sun

PySCF

Trey Hunner

Python

Will Constable

PyTorch/XLA

Jay Berkenbilt

qpdf

Ahmed El-Helw

Quran App for Android

Jan Gorecki

Reproducible benchmark of database-like ops

Ralf Jung

Rust

Frank Steffahn

Rust, ICU4X

Bhaarat Krishnan

Serverless Web APIs Workshop

Maximilian Keppeler

Sheets-Compose-Dialogs

Cory LaViska

Shoelace

Carlos Panato

Sigstore

Keith Zantow

spdx/tools-golang

Hayley Patton

Steel Bank Common Lisp

Qamar Safadi

Sunflower

Victor Julien

Suricata

Eyoel Defare

textfield_tags

Giedrius Statkevičius

Thanos

Michael Park

The Good Docs Project

Douglas Theobald

Theseus

David Blevins

Tomee

Anthony Fu

Vitest

Ryuta Mizuno

Volcago

Nicolò Ribaudo

WHATWG HTML Living Standard; ECMAScript Language Specification

Antoine Martin

xpra

Toru Komatsu

youki

We are incredibly proud of all of the nominees for their outstanding contributions to open source, and we look forward to seeing even more amazing contributions in the years to come. An additional thanks to Maria Tabak who has helped to lay the groundwork and management of this program for the past 5 years!

By Mike Bufano, Google Open Source Peer Bonus Program Lead

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