Performance Testing in Keptn Using K6
Offered By: USENIX via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Explore performance testing in Keptn using K6 in this 18-minute conference talk from SREcon23 Asia/Pacific. Discover how Keptn, an open-source project, provides scalable automation for delivery and operations, evaluates service level objectives (SLOs), and offers a dashboard with alerts and auto-remediation. Learn about integrating load testing tools like K6, JMeter, and Locust into your delivery pipeline. Understand K6's capabilities in simulating thousands of virtual users with a single load generator and exporting test metrics to external data sources such as Prometheus and Datadog. Gain insights into Keptn's Quality Gates for evaluating and monitoring test results, as well as defining SLO objectives. Explore the Keptn Job Executor Service and its role in integrating K6 and other tools by running tasks as short-lived Kubernetes Jobs. Enhance your knowledge of performance testing strategies and tools to improve your service reliability and efficiency.
Syllabus
SREcon23 Asia/Pacific - Performance Testing in Keptn Using K6
Taught by
USENIX
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