retroryan/k6-in-k8

This repo provides the setup to run K6 in K8 and the ability to run basic network load tests both locally and in K8

K6 in K8

This repo provides the following

• Basic HTTP Server to simulate network traffic
• Basic setup to run K6 locally using docker compose
• Basic setup to run K6 in K8
• Additional ability to export K6 metrics to datadog from K8

Building the test HTTP Server

The test HTTP server is from paninetworks testing-tools

Build the go binary

  go mod init main
  go get github.com/cgilmour/maxopen
  CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -v -o httpserver main

Build the docker image and push it up to the docker hub:

  export DOCKER_USERNAME=...
  docker build --tag $DOCKER_USERNAME/httptest:1 .  
  docker push $DOCKER_USERNAME/httptest:1

Running Locally using Docker compose

The docker compose script was modified from Beautiful Load Testing With K6 and Docker Compose