k8perf 0.1.dev1

A kubernetes network performance testing tool

Benchmark application

This is a benchmark application for kubernetes. It is used to test network performance of a kubernetes cluster.

Demo of the application

Run the application

install this python package, a place where you have a kubernetes config file, and run the following command:

pip install k8perf
python -m k8perf run

You can get a json output from the command line by adding the --json flag.

Contributing

If you want to contribute, here is how to get your envirorment setup

Virtualenv

you can activate the virtualenv with the following command:

source bin/activate

if you're not using the script, remember to install the module with the following command:

    pip install --editable .

Run iperf 3 benchmark on kubernetes

There are two files in the folder bandwidth:

• the server iperf3-server.yaml
• the client iperf3-client.yaml

Results

The results of our experiments are located in the results folder.

Images and visualizations of data and analysis are located in the images folder.

visualize.ipynb is a notebook which was used to generate the heatmaps for the iperf3 tests.

TODO

• add a way to specify the namespace
• Run http benchmark until the server is up to 90% cpu usage
• loading bar for the benchmark
• Stream the output of the benchmark (Use streamlit)