k6

Running multiple scenarios at once

Our test pack is configured dynamically from environment variables. Each scenario can be configured independently with different target VUs, duration or even executor. Let’s start from a file called main.js. It imports all our scenarios, each as a default function: export { default as cacheCreateAll } from './runners/cacheCreateAll.js'; export { default as cacheCreateUpdateRemove } from './runners/cacheCreateUpdateRemove.js'; export { default as userSearch } from './runners/userSearch.js'; The main.js file is our entry point to the application.

Coordinating k6 runners on kubernetes

My team is preparing our company to acquire another customer who at initial stages will be 5x bigger than our current biggest customer. To do it, we had to rewrite our performance tests from Gatling to k6. Improve reporting, metrics and scalability of our whole infrastructure and tune set of microservices. To test our infrastructure we had to scale up our perf test runners too and to do that we developed a set of containerised performance tests and run our performance test pack on dedicated kubernetes nodes.

Building custom k6 container image

Our performance tests project is complex, we have +40 .js files, csv feeder files and use custom extensions, so we need to bundle all of that in a single image. We want things to be version controlled, deploy performance tests in a cloud-native way and the image to be compatible with official k6 image. # Build the k6 binary with the extension FROM golang:1.20 as builder RUN go install go.k6.io/xk6/cmd/xk6@v0.8.1 # Update README.