layer5io / layer5io/getnighthawk
[Performance] distributed deployments of NightHawk to enable distributed performance tests
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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
- See the Contributing to getnighthawk.dev Website
- See the Project Site section of GetNighthawk project doc
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- 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