stress-sqs

Dockerized application that can be run under Marathon management to stress an AWS Simple Queue Service by adding messages.

Prerequisites

A running DC/OS cluster
DC/OS CLI installed on your local machine

If running on a DC/OS cluster in Permissive or Strict mode, an user or service account with the appropriate permissions to modify Marathon jobs. An example script for setting up a service account can be found in create-service-account.sh

Installation/Configuration

Building the Docker container

How to build the container:

docker build .
docker tag <tag-id> <docker-hub-name>/stress-sqs:latest
docker push <docker-hub-name>/stress-sqs:latest

Marathon example

Update the environment variables in the Marathon definition to match your specific configuration.

Core environment variables available to the application:

SQS_NAME # name of the aws simple queue service
SQS_ENDPOINT # endpoint url of the sqs service
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID # aws access key
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY # aws secret key
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION # aws region

Program Execution / Usage

Add your application to Marathon using the DC/OS Marathon CLI.

$ dcos marathon app add stress-sqs-marathon.json