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## Distribute Load Testing Using GKE
## Distributed Load Testing Using GKE and Locust

## Introduction

Load testing is key to the development of any backend infrastructure because load tests demonstrate how well the system functions when faced with real-world demands. An important aspect of load testing is the proper simulation of user and device behavior to identify and understand any possible system bottlenecks, well in advance of deploying applications to production.

However, dedicated test infrastructure can be expensive and difficult to maintain because it is not needed on a continuous basis. Moreover, dedicated test infrastructure is often a one-time capital expense with a fixed capacity, which makes it difficult to scale load testing beyond the initial investment and can limit experimentation. This can lead to slowdowns in productivity for development teams and lead to applications that are not properly tested before production deployments.

## Before you begin

Open Cloud Shell to execute the commands listed in this tutorial.

Define environment variables for the project id, region and zone you want to use for this tutorial.

$ PROJECT=$(gcloud config get-value project)
$ REGION=us-central1
$ ZONE=${REGION}-b
$ CLUSTER=gke-load-test
$ TARGET=${PROJECT}.appspot.com
$ gcloud config set compute/region $REGION
$ gcloud config set compute/zone $ZONE

**Note:** Following services should be enabled in your project:
Cloud Build
Kubernetes Engine
Google App Engine Admin API
Cloud Storage

$ gcloud services enable \
cloudbuild.googleapis.com \
compute.googleapis.com \
container.googleapis.com \
containeranalysis.googleapis.com \
containerregistry.googleapis.com

## Load testing tasks

To deploy the load testing tasks, you first deploy a load testing master and then deploy a group of load testing workers. With these load testing workers, you can create a substantial amount of traffic for testing purposes.

**Note:** Keep in mind that generating excessive amounts of traffic to external systems can resemble a denial-of-service attack. Be sure to review the Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service and the Google Cloud Platform Acceptable Use Policy.

## Load testing master

The first component of the deployment is the Locust master, which is the entry point for executing the load testing tasks described above. The Locust master is deployed with a single replica because we need only one master.

The configuration for the master deployment specifies several elements, including the ports that need to be exposed by the container (`8089` for web interface, `5557` and `5558` for communicating with workers). This information is later used to configure the Locust workers. The following snippet contains the configuration for the ports:

ports:
- name: loc-master-web
containerPort: 8089
protocol: TCP
- name: loc-master-p1
containerPort: 5557
protocol: TCP
- name: loc-master-p2
containerPort: 5558
protocol: TCP

Next, we would deploy a Service to ensure that the exposed ports are accessible to other pods via `hostname:port` within the cluster, and referenceable via a descriptive port name. The use of a service allows the Locust workers to easily discover and reliably communicate with the master, even if the master fails and is replaced with a new pod by the deployment. The Locust master service also includes a directive to create an external forwarding rule at the cluster level (i.e. type of LoadBalancer), which provides the ability for external traffic to access the cluster resources.

After you deploy the Locust master, you can access the web interface using the public IP address of the external forwarding rule. After you deploy the Locust workers, you can start the simulation and look at aggregate statistics through the Locust web interface.

## Load testing workers

The next component of the deployment includes the Locust workers, which execute the load testing tasks described above. The Locust workers are deployed by a single deployment that creates multiple pods. The pods are spread out across the Kubernetes cluster. Each pod uses environment variables to control important configuration information such as the hostname of the system under test and the hostname of the Locust master.

After the Locust workers are deployed, you can return to the Locust master web interface and see that the number of slaves corresponds to the number of deployed workers.

## Setup

1. Create GKE cluster

$ gcloud container clusters create $CLUSTER \
--zone $ZONE \
--scopes "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform" \
--num-nodes "3" \
--enable-autoscaling --min-nodes "3" \
--max-nodes "10" \
--addons HorizontalPodAutoscaling,HttpLoadBalancing

$ gcloud container clusters get-credentials $CLUSTER \
--zone $ZONE \
--project $PROJECT

2. Clone tutorial repo in a local directory on your cloud shell environment

$ git clone <this-repository>

3. Build docker image and store it in your project's container registry

$ pushd gke-load-test
$ gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/$PROJECT/locust-tasks:latest docker-image/.

4. Deploy sample application on GAE

$ gcloud app deploy sample-webapp/app.yaml --project=$PROJECT

5. Replace [TARGET_HOST] and [PROJECT_ID] in locust-master-controller.yaml and locust-worker-controller.yaml with the deployed endpoint and project-id respectively.

$ sed -i -e "s/\[TARGET_HOST\]/$TARGET/g" kubernetes-config/locust-master-controller.yaml
$ sed -i -e "s/\[TARGET_HOST\]/$TARGET/g" kubernetes-config/locust-worker-controller.yaml
$ sed -i -e "s/\[PROJECT_ID\]/$PROJECT/g" kubernetes-config/locust-master-controller.yaml
$ sed -i -e "s/\[PROJECT_ID\]/$PROJECT/g" kubernetes-config/locust-worker-controller.yaml

6. Deploy Locust master and worker nodes:

$ kubectl apply -f kubernetes-config/locust-master-controller.yaml
$ kubectl apply -f kubernetes-config/locust-master-service.yaml
$ kubectl apply -f kubernetes-config/locust-worker-controller.yaml

7. Get the external ip of Locust master service

$ EXTERNAL_IP=$(kubectl get svc locust-master -o yaml | grep ip | awk -F":" '{print $NF}')

8. Starting load testing
The Locust master web interface enables you to execute the load testing tasks against the system under test, as shown in the following image. Access the url as http://$EXTERNAL_IP:8089.

To begin, specify the total number of users to simulate and a rate at which each user should be spawned. Next, click Start swarming to begin the simulation. To stop the simulation, click **Stop** and the test will terminate. The complete results can be downloaded into a spreadsheet.

9. [Optional] Scaling clients
Scaling up the number of simulated users will require an increase in the number of Locust worker pods. To increase the number of pods deployed by the deployment, Kubernetes offers the ability to resize deployments without redeploying them. For example, the following command scales the pool of Locust worker pods to 20:

$ kubectl scale deployment/locust-worker --replicas=20

## Cleaning up

$ gcloud container clusters delete $CLUSTER --zone $ZONE
This is the sample code for the [Distributed load testing using Google Kubernetes Engine](https://cloud.google.com/architecture/distributed-load-testing-using-gke) tutorial.

## License

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# Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
# Copyright 2022 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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# limitations under the License.


# Start with a base Python 3.7.2 image
FROM python:3.7.2
# Start with a base image Python 3.9.12 Debian 11 (bullseye) slim
FROM python:3.9.12-slim-bullseye

# Add the licenses for third party software and libraries
ADD licenses /licenses
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certifi==2019.3.9
chardet==3.0.4
Click==7.0
Flask==1.0.2
gevent==1.4.0
greenlet==0.4.15
idna==2.8
itsdangerous==1.1.0
Jinja2==2.10.1
locustio==0.11.0
MarkupSafe==1.1.1
msgpack==0.6.1
Brotli==1.0.9
certifi==2021.10.8
chardet==4.0.0
charset-normalizer==2.0.12
click==8.1.2
ConfigArgParse==1.5.3
Flask==2.1.1
Flask-BasicAuth==0.2.0
Flask-Cors==3.0.10
gevent==21.12.0
geventhttpclient==1.5.3
greenlet==1.1.2
idna==3.3
importlib-metadata==4.11.3
itsdangerous==2.1.2
Jinja2==3.0.3
locust==2.8.6
MarkupSafe==2.1.1
msgpack==1.0.3
msgpack-python==0.5.6
pyzmq==18.0.1
requests==2.21.0
six==1.12.0
urllib3==1.24.2
Werkzeug==0.15.1
psutil==5.9.0
pyzmq==22.3.0
requests==2.27.1
roundrobin==0.0.2
six==1.16.0
typing_extensions==4.1.1
urllib3==1.26.9
Werkzeug==2.1.1
zipp==3.8.0
zope.event==4.5.0
zope.interface==5.4.0
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#!/bin/bash

# Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
# Copyright 2022 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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if [[ "$LOCUST_MODE" = "master" ]]; then
LOCUS_OPTS="$LOCUS_OPTS --master"
elif [[ "$LOCUST_MODE" = "worker" ]]; then
LOCUS_OPTS="$LOCUS_OPTS --slave --master-host=$LOCUST_MASTER"
LOCUS_OPTS="$LOCUS_OPTS --worker --master-host=$LOCUST_MASTER"
fi

echo "$LOCUST $LOCUS_OPTS"

$LOCUST $LOCUS_OPTS
$LOCUST $LOCUS_OPTS
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#!/usr/bin/env python

# Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
# Copyright 2022 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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import uuid

from datetime import datetime
from locust import HttpLocust, TaskSet, task
from locust import FastHttpUser, TaskSet, task


# [START locust_test_task]

class MetricsTaskSet(TaskSet):
_deviceid = None

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"/metrics", {"deviceid": self._deviceid, "timestamp": datetime.now()})


class MetricsLocust(HttpLocust):
task_set = MetricsTaskSet
class MetricsLocust(FastHttpUser):
tasks = {MetricsTaskSet}

# [END locust_test_task]
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# Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
# Copyright 2022 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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spec:
containers:
- name: locust-master
image: gcr.io/[PROJECT_ID]/locust-tasks:latest
image: ${REGION}-docker.pkg.dev/${PROJECT}/${AR_REPO}/${LOCUST_IMAGE_NAME}:${LOCUST_IMAGE_TAG}
env:
- name: LOCUST_MODE
value: master
- name: TARGET_HOST
value: https://[TARGET_HOST]
value: https://${SAMPLE_APP_TARGET}
ports:
- name: loc-master-web
containerPort: 8089
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# Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
# Copyright 2022 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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app: locust-master
spec:
ports:
- port: 8089
targetPort: loc-master-web
protocol: TCP
name: loc-master-web
- port: 5557
targetPort: loc-master-p1
protocol: TCP
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name: loc-master-p2
selector:
app: locust-master
---
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: locust-master-web
annotations:
networking.gke.io/load-balancer-type: "Internal"
labels:
app: locust-master
spec:
ports:
- port: 8089
targetPort: loc-master-web
protocol: TCP
name: loc-master-web
selector:
app: locust-master
type: LoadBalancer
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# Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
# Copyright 2022 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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spec:
containers:
- name: locust-worker
image: gcr.io/[PROJECT_ID]/locust-tasks:latest
image: ${REGION}-docker.pkg.dev/${PROJECT}/${AR_REPO}/${LOCUST_IMAGE_NAME}:${LOCUST_IMAGE_TAG}
env:
- name: LOCUST_MODE
value: worker
- name: LOCUST_MASTER
value: locust-master
- name: TARGET_HOST
value: https://[TARGET_HOST]
value: https://${SAMPLE_APP_TARGET}
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# This file specifies files that are *not* uploaded to Google Cloud Platform
# using gcloud. It follows the same syntax as .gitignore, with the addition of
# "#!include" directives (which insert the entries of the given .gitignore-style
# file at that point).
#
# For more information, run:
# $ gcloud topic gcloudignore
#
.gcloudignore
# If you would like to upload your .git directory, .gitignore file or files
# from your .gitignore file, remove the corresponding line
# below:
.git
.gitignore

# Python pycache:
__pycache__/
# Ignored by the build system
/setup.cfg
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# Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
# Copyright 2022 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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# limitations under the License.


runtime: python37
runtime: python39

instance_class: F2

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#!/usr/bin/env python

# Copyright 2019 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
# Copyright 2022 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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def root():
return 'Welcome to the "Distributed Load Testing Using Kubernetes" sample web app\n'

# [START sample_app_endpoints]
@app.route('/login', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def login():
deviceid = request.values.get('deviceid')
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def metrics():
deviceid = request.values.get('deviceid')
timestamp = request.values.get('timestamp')

return '/metrics - device: {}, timestamp: {}\n'.format(deviceid, timestamp)
# [END sample_app_endpoints]


if __name__ == '__main__':
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