This topic details what you should test when you want to make sure your deployment is
working. The following suggested test plan contains tasks that ensure DNS, imaging, and storage
are working.
DNS
- Verify that instances can ping their:
- Private DNS name
- Public DNS name
- Verify that instances are pingable on their public DNS names from:
- Outside the cloud
- An instance inside the cloud
Imaging
- Verify that an EBS-backed image boots successfully
- Verify that you can create an image from a running EBS-backed instance
- Verify that you can install a new Ubuntu image
- Verify that you can deregister an image
- Verify that you can import an instance
- Verify that you can import a volume
Walrus
- Verify that you can make a basic s3cmd request
- Verify that you can successfully perform a multi-part upload (use a 1G+ file)