The Test

This test times how long it takes to run puppet apply to install a large amount of monitoring software on a Docker container using the Vagrant 1.6 Docker provisioner. It is a mixed test that measures network speed (downloading large packages and plugins,) disk performance, and CPU performance.

Linode

2 GB Instance
Fedora 20
Fremont datacenter

Docker does not run on Linode's CentOS images.

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Notice: Finished catalog run in 255.92 seconds

DigitalOcean

2 GB Instance
Centos 6.5 64-bit
SF datacenter

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Notice: Finished catalog run in 238.24 seconds

Rackspace

Performance 2 Cloud Server (2 GB)
CentOS 6.5 (PVHVM)
DFW datacenter

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Notice: Finished catalog run in 215.43 seconds

Google Compute Engine (small, very small root disk)

g1.small (1/2 CPU, 1.7 GB RAM)
us-central1-a datacenter
CentOS 6.5
10 GB root disk

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Notice: Finished catalog run in 471.22 seconds

Google Compute Engine (large, large root disk)

n1-highcpu-2 (2 CPU, 1.8 GB RAM)
us-central1-b datacenter
CentOS 6.5
1000 GB root disk

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Notice: Finished catalog run in 222.97 seconds