Performance Measurement Tools

• KBench: Used to benchmark cluster storage performance
• Local Path Provisioner: Used to measure the baseline performance of the data disk

Equinix (m3.small.x86)

• Machine: Japan/m3.small.x86
• CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2378G CPU @ 2.80GHz
• RAM: 64 GiB
• Kubernetes: v1.23.6+rke2r2
• Nodes: 3 (each node is a master and also a worker)
• OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / 5.15.0-33-generic
• Storage: 1 SSD (Micron_5300_MTFD)
• Network throughput between nodes (tested by iperf over 60 seconds): 15.0 Gbits/sec

AWS EC2 (c5d.xlarge)

• Machine: Tokyo/c5d.xlarge
• CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8124M CPU @ 3.00GHz
• RAM: 8 GiB
• Kubernetes: v1.25.10+rke2r1
• Nodes: 3 (each node is a master and also a worker)
• OS: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS / 5.19.0-1025-aws
• Storage: 1 SSD (Amazon EC2 NVMe Instance Storage/Local NVMe Storage)
• Network throughput between nodes (tested by iperf over 60 seconds): 7.9 Gbits/sec