AWS Test Setup

To set up a lab environment on Amazon AWS (on the eu-west-1 region):

1. Install Terraform

   Official instructions are provided at terraform.io.

2. Prepare credentials

   Create a file called terraform.tfvars in this directory, containing:

   access_key = "YOUR_ACCESS_KEY"
   secret_key = "YOUR_SECRET_KEY"
   

3. Prepare an access key

   Generate a key called k6-test on the IAM page for your user, and save it as k6-test.pem in this directory.

   If you already have a different key you'd like to use, you can add the following to terraform.tfvars and save it as YOUR_KEY_NAME.pem instead:

   key_name = "YOUR_KEY_NAME"
   

4. Let Terraform do the thing

   terraform apply
   

   Now just sit back and wait for a few minutes. Seriously, this takes a while. Take note of the loadgen_ip, influx_ip and web_ip printed at the end.

5. Do the other thing

   ssh -i k6-test.pem ubuntu@LOADGEN_IP
   
   # on loadgen
   sudo salt '*' state.highstate