pivotaleducation/loadtest repository overview

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⁠Overview

The scope of this project is to provide a simple load injector that facilitates demonstration availability and horizontal scaling characteristics of PaaS or container orchestrated platforms in scaled-down development environments where simplicity is paramount.

Authoring of complex load scenario scripts is not desired. It is not intended for use for load testing of applications with a workload profile where the test requires a specific set of operations stitched together and correlated in a concurrent test flow.

There are better tools for that, such as Gatling⁠ or Apache Jmeter⁠.

The scope explicitly excludes performance or capacity assessments of an application.

This pivotaleducation/loadtest docker image⁠ runs the loadtest⁠ command as a single containerized load injector.

It is inspired by the now archived bunchjesse/docker-loadtest Github project⁠ and associated docker image hosted at Dockerhub⁠.

The advantages of using this project are that:

• You do not explicitly need to install node or npm dependencies to run install or run loadtest.

• You can run loadtest from a workstation via docker, or you may deploy it to run in a K8s cluster.

• Enhanced instructions on assessing loadtest log output and summary reporting.

View the project at Github⁠ for background and usage.