Performance testing ingress-nginx-controller in GithubAction-CI

This README will evolve as the development of testing occurs.

INFORMATION

1. No CPU/Memory for stress

• Github-Actions job runner is a 2core 7Gig VM so that limits what/how we test https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners

  
  • Need to eventually get our own beefy runner, with enough cpu/memory to handle stress level load

2. Scale is work-in-progress

• We are grateful to have got a free account on K6.io, as part of their OSS Program. But it is limited to 600 tests per year.

3. No Testplans

• Testplan discussion and coding is needed for more practical real-world testing reports

DESCRIPTION

What

• An issue was created for performance tests, for the ingress-nginx-controller builds, kubernetes#8033 .

How

• A step by step guide to using https://k6.io with GithubActions is here https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-using-github-actions/

  • The link above contains sample code

  • Copy sample test code from website and edit to taste

  

  • The CI launches a ubuntu environment and uses make dev-env to create a kind cluster. The popular https://httpbin.org api docker image is used to create a workload

    

  • We don't want the test to block CI so this syntax from Github-Actions creates a button to run the test

  • The button looks like this (the Run Workflow dropdown at bottom right of screenshot)

    

fqdn

• Obtained a freenom domain ingress-nginx-controller.ga

  • The test uses a fqdn test.ingress-nginx-controller.ga

  • The K6 api has configuration options for dns resolution of (above mentioned fqdn) to localhost/loopback/127.0.0.1 (make dev-env cluster)

  • Will need to discuss and decide on fqdn, as it relates to tls secret

tls

• Procured a letsencrypt wildcard certificate for *.ingress-nginx-controller.ga

  • base64 encoded hash of the cert + key is stored in the Github Project Settings Secrets as a variable

  • The GithubActions secrets variables are decoded in the CI to create the TLS secret

    

Visualization

• Plan is to run tests locally on a kind cluster, in the CI pipeline, but push results to K6-cloud

  • Pushing and visualization on K6 cloud is as simple as executing k6 run -o cloud test.js

  • Currently there is a personal account in trial period (50 tests or 1 year limit) bing used

  • Pushing test-results from K6 tests on laptop, to K6-cloud personal trial account on K6-Cloud, to see what the graphs look like

    

  • The cli result looks like this

• Before merging the PR, the testing is being done on personal Github project with exact same code as this PR here https://github.com/longwuyuan/k6-loadtest-example/runs/6545706269?check_suite_focus=true