Install K6 test tool

k6 What is it? ？

k6 It is a free open source load testing tool centered on developers , It aims to make performance testing an efficient and pleasant experience .

Use k6, You will be able to find performance regression and problems earlier , So as to build elastic systems and robust applications .

The main features

k6 It contains many functions , You can see all these functions in the documentation . The main functions include ：

1. With developer friendliness API Of CLI Tools .

2. stay JavaScript ES2015/ES6 Script in - Support local and remote modules

3. Check And thresholds - For target oriented 、 Automate friendly load testing

Use cases

k6 Users are usually developers 、QA Engineer and DevOps. They use k6 To test API、 The performance of microservices and websites . common k6 The use case is ：

** The load test **
k6  Optimize the minimum consumption of system resources . It is a high-performance tool , Designed for pre production and  QA  Run high load tests in the environment （ peak 、 pressure 、 Soak Test ） And Design .

** Performance monitoring **
k6  It provides a good primitive for Performance Test Automation . You can run tests with a small amount of load , To continuously monitor the performance of the production environment .

install

Debian/Ubuntu

#🧠  If the image you are using is missing  ca- certificate   perhaps  gnupg2
# Some images are not related to  ca- certificate   and  gnupg2 Out of the box package . If you use such an image , First, you need to use the following command to install these packages ：

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ca-certificates gnupg2 -y

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys C5AD17C747E3415A3642D57D77C6C491D6AC1D69
echo "deb https://dl.k6.io/deb stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/k6.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install k6

Fedora/CentOS

 Use   Sirius   perhaps   yum   In the old version ：
sudo dnf install https://dl.k6.io/rpm/repo.rpm
sudo dnf install k6

Binary installation

Choose a version Releases page After downloading , And put it in your PATH function k6 From anywhere

wget  https://github.com/grafana/k6/releases/download/v0.34.1/k6-v0.34.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvf k6-v0.34.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv k6-v0.34.1-linux-amd64/k6 /usr/local/bin/

Docker

docker pull loadimpact/k6
docker run -i loadimpact/k6 run - <script.js

Refer to official documentation

Official document address : https://k6.io/docs/

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