mariusmitrofan

The answer to life, universe and everything is NOT Kubernetes

<or "How to deploy a Serverless LoadTesting tool with an ElasticSearch backend for visualizations">

Technologies used

• Serverless - AWS Lambda
• Chef - AWS OpsWorks
• VPN Endpoints
• ElasticSearch
• AWS EKS

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export EMAIL=your_email_address

cat > generate-key.json <<EOF
{
    "email": "${EMAIL}",
    "discount_code": "OPEN-BETA-RUNGUTAN"
}
EOF

curl \

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{
    "message": "Thank you for registering. 
                You should find the API key in your mailbox in a few seconds."
}

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export API_KEY=the api key you received in your mailbox

cat > my-first-test.json <<EOF
{
  "numClients": 500,
  "hatchRate": 500,
  "runTime": 30,
  "maxThreads": 1,
  "hostname": "netbears.com",
  "protocol": "https",

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{
  "numClients": 500,
  "hatchRate": 500,
  "runTime": "30s",
  "requestId": "OBFUSCATED_VALUE_HERE",
  "maxThreads": 10,
  "protocol": "https",
  "hostname": "netbears.com",
  "minWait": 1000,
  "maxWait": 1000,

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export API_KEY=the api key you received in your mailbox
export REQUEST=the value that was generated when you 
               created the test and offered in the response as 
               "requestId"

cat > results-from-my-first-test.json <<EOF
{
  "requestId": "${REQUEST}"
}
EOF

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{
  "status": "COMPLETED",
  "input": {
    "requestId": "OBFUSCATED_VALUE_HERE",
    "protocol": "https",
    "runTime": "30s",
    "hostname": "netbears.com",
    "hatchRate": 500,
    "numClients": 500,
    "maxThreads": 1,

mariusmitrofan

export API_KEY=the api key you received in your mailbox

cat > feedback.json <<EOF
{
  "message": "IT WORKED. GOOD JOB. HELL YEAH. YOO-HOO. GOOD JOB GUYS."
}
EOF

curl \
    -X POST \

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{
    "message": "Thank you for your valuable feedback!"
}

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<MANDATORY PARAMETERS>
* numClients:
-> The number of users testing your application
-> Each user opens a TCP connection to your application and tests it

* hatchRate: 
-> How many users will be added to the current users, per second, 
until the total amount of users is fulfilled. 
-> This tells the app how gradually do you want to do the load test