Load testing¶

KubeElasti ships a small k6 load harness under tests/load/ to exercise scale-from-zero and steady-state behavior against a target service.

1. Update the k6 script¶

Edit tests/load/load.js to point at your target URL (for example, the ingress or port-forwarded service) and adjust the virtual user count or duration as needed.

2. Run the load test¶

The wrapper script writes a k6 web dashboard report and logs into a logs/ directory next to the script, so create that directory the first time you run it.

cd ./tests/load
mkdir -p logs
chmod +x ./generate_load.sh
./generate_load.sh

By default the script runs k6 run --vus 100 --duration 30s load.js and exposes the live dashboard on http://localhost:5665.