Performance test parameters¶

Iter8 performance tests are run using Helm. Tests can be configured with parameters in the same manner as any other Helm command -- using chart values and the --set option.

The tasks parameter is used to identify the sequence of tasks that should be executed. Each task has its own parameters. Iter8 uses the convention that the parameters of a task are nested under the name of that task. In the following example, the url parameter of the http task is nested under the http object.

helm upgrade --install \
--repo https://iter8-tools.github.io/iter8 --version 1.1 httpbin-test iter8 \
--set "tasks={http}" \
--set http.url=https://httpbin.org/get

All the parameters of the performance test (including of all included tasks) are optional unless otherwise documented. The task-specific parameters are documented in the task documentation.

Currently available tasks are:

• http - generate synthetic load and capture performance metrics for HTTP endpoints
• grpc - generate synthetic load and capture performance metrics for gRPC methods
• ready - check readiness of an object
• github - send a GitHub notification
• slack - send a Slack notification

Global parameters¶

In addition to task-specific parameters, the following global parameters are available: