maxim

About maxim

maxim is a tool to do performance test for your web applications.

It can simulate 10k+ concurrent requests for your performance test by using Gatling and EKS.

Docker Image

docker build . -t gatling:3.5.1

EKS

create eks cluster and fargate profile

cd eks
eksctl create cluster -f cluster.yaml
eksctl create fargateprofile -f fargate_profile.yaml

Namesapce

kubectl create namespace maxim

Service Account

REGION=us-east-1
CLUSTER_NAME=basic-cluster
NAMESPACE=maxim
SERVICE_ACCOUNT=perf-test-sa
S3_POLICY="arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonS3FullAccess"

eksctl utils associate-iam-oidc-provider --cluster $CLUSTER_NAME --region $REGION --approve


eksctl create iamserviceaccount \
    --name $SERVICE_ACCOUNT \
    --namespace $NAMESPACE \
    --cluster $CLUSTER_NAME \
    --region $REGION \
    --attach-policy-arn $S3_POLICY \
    --approve \
    --override-existing-serviceaccounts

Start Pod on Fargate

cd chart
helm install maxim maxim/ -n maxim

Check jobs

kubectl get all -n maxim

the pods are starting

NAME                                COMPLETIONS   DURATION   AGE
job.batch/perf-test                 0/1                      16s
job.batch/perf-test-merge-results   0/1                      16s

after about 5 minutes, the job completed

NAME                                READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE
pod/perf-test-merge-results-x54mf   0/1     Completed   0          4m25s
pod/perf-test-wvjqn                 0/1     Completed   0          4m25s

NAME                                COMPLETIONS   DURATION   AGE
job.batch/perf-test                 1/1           3m33s      4m28s
job.batch/perf-test-merge-results   1/1           4m23s      4m28s

Result

aws s3 cp s3://perf-test-aws/TEST/report.tar.gz ./
tar -zxvf report.tar.gz

then open index.html

Clean up

cd chart
helm uninstall maxim -n maxim