k8-traffic-generator
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Project brief
Objective: Create a Kubernetes (K8) native application that is able to generate large amounts of web traffic (namely file downloads)
- In order to effectively test the Glasswall ICAP project we need a test framework that is able to simulate user traffic like:
- Open pages
- Follow links
- Upload files
- Download files
- initial targets:
- Key concept is to use each K8 pod as an 'user', which depending on some configurable values, will perform a number of pre-determined or random actions
- Key objective is to be able to use this K8 solution to scale up and down the traffic (which should simply be a case of adding or removing pods from the cluster)
- key milestone is to be able to find the limitations of a particular ICAP deployment
- CI and CD pipeline are a key requirement (with the entire test scenario being able to be executed from scratch)
- Target execution environments for the k8 environment:
- locally (using Docker Desktop)
- EC2 or Azure VM (with K8 installed)
- Managed EKS (AWS or Azure)
- implement logging solutions to visualize what is going on inside the K8 environnement (with a special focus on the individual pods actions and the server's responses)