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Bootstrapping an Alpine EC2 instance for Ansible and Docker
One of the challenges in running a large load test is the orchestration of a large number of machines to generate load. This involves a series of steps:
Creating the instances
Install the load testing software
Sending the test configuration
Run the test
Collect test results
Shutdown the instances
Load Tester does that pretty effortlessly in EC2 – our customers as well as our own test engineers love not having to worry about those steps. It just works. As I evolve our next generation of testing tools, I am revisiting this problem and looking at solutions from a different angle. Last week, I decided to investigate … Continue reading »