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[Performance] distributed deployments of NightHawk to enable distributed performance tests

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area/performance issue/design required kind/enhancement
Dominant language
Go
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Description

Current Behavior

Right now performance tests using NightHawk are limited to single instance load generation. This limits the amount of traffic that can be generated to the output of the single machine that the benchmark tool runs on in or out of a cluster.

Desired Behavior

Support distributed deployments of NightHawk to enable users to run distributed performance tests to better mimic real-world, distributed systems scenarios.


Resources

Proposed design spec: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_hhQ5w1iLClgf7RvboI6il-eMKKAVPwz50GHm2VN4Bg/edit#heading=h.3tnqdf3a6jei

Additional Context
Load generators and meshery: https://docs.meshery.io/extensibility/load-generators
Performance management in meshery: https://docs.meshery.io/functionality/performance-management


Contributor Resources

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the proposed design spec, then read the Load generators and Meshery and Performance management resources linked in the issue. Compare those expectations with NightHawk's current single-instance load generation. Done means users can deploy NightHawk in a distributed setup and run distributed performance tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
distributed-systems, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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