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What is Rally?
==============

**OpenStack** is, undoubtedly, a really *huge* ecosystem of cooperative services. **Rally** is a **benchmarking tool** that answers the question: **"How does OpenStack work at scale?"**. To make this possible, Rally **automates** and **unifies** multi-node OpenStack deployment, cloud verification, benchmarking & profiling. Rally does it in a **generic** way, making it possible to check whether OpenStack is going to work well on, say, a 1k-servers installation under high load. Thus it can be used as a basic tool for an *OpenStack CI/CD system* that would continuously improve its SLA, performance and stability.

.. image:: ./images/Rally-Actions.png
   :align: center


Contents
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   overview
   install
   tutorial
   cli/cli_reference
   user_stories
   plugins
   plugin/plugin_reference
   db_migrations
   contribute
   gates
   feature_requests
   project_info
   release_notes
