sjug/alpine-stress repository overview

⁠alpine-stress

Minimal docker image for cloud deployment and automated load/stress testing based on Alpine Linux.

Other than the base image there are two main applications currently deployed:

• stress⁠ to generate synthetic load on hosts
• jmeter⁠ for load testing of web services and related web applications.

⁠stress

In order to run stress, the script is looking for a minimum of three environment variables to be set:

• RUN="stress" to switch case to stress execution
• STRESS_CPU integer value of N workers spinning on sqrt()
• STRESS_TIME integer value of N seconds after which to stop stress

⁠JMeter

In order to run JMeter, the script is looking for a minimum of three environment variables to be set:

• RUN="jmeter" to switch case to jmeter execution
• TARGET_IP IPv4 address for which the script will attempt to make requests at
• TARGET_PORT integer port that is open for requests
• ROUTER_IP (optional) if we are passing requests through a router before hitting the webservice we need to add a hosts entry for the router and the service hostname.