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Challenges of Geo-Distributed Load and Functional Testing
Applications used by geographically dispersed users often require load and functional testing from multiple locations around the world. This ensures the testing process accurately simulates the real-world experience of users in different regions.
However, deploying and managing these geo-distributed testing locations is no small feat. Many organizations turn to third-party platforms like NeoLoad, Blazemeter, Sauce Labs, Azure, AWS, or k6 Cloud for distributed testing. While these solutions work, they often come with trade-offs such as high costs, security concerns, limited tool compatibility, and lack of integration with modern DevOps/GitOps workflows.
Run Tests Where Your Users Are
For cloud-native teams that prefer to use their own infrastructure and testing tools, Testkube offers a powerful alternative. Its centralized on-premise control plane, connected to an organization's own geo-distributed clusters, enables seamless load and functional testing across all distributed load or end to end sources.
Testkube lets you use your existing Kubernetes clusters across AWS, Azure, GCP, or edge locations to run localized tests. There’s no need to route traffic through third-party services.
This gives your team more control, better performance data, and greater confidence in how the application behaves in real-world conditions.
Run Any Tool, Anywhere
Testkube is tool-agnostic, which means you can use the tools your team already trusts—like k6, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or custom scripts. Local agents inside each cluster handle execution, while the control plane aggregates results for centralized analysis.
There’s no need to refactor or replatform your test suite. You get flexibility without friction, even when load testing with geo location.
Built-In Parallelism for Realistic Workloads
Testkube supports advanced scaling strategies like test sharding and matrix execution, making it easy to run realistic simulations:
- k6 supports multiple parallel workers for high-concurrency tests
- Playwright and Cypress tests can be distributed across nodes
- Selenium supports scaling across browser/device combinations
This enables powerful testing scenarios without the maintenance burden of DIY setups.
Trigger Tests In Your Existing Workflow— CI/CD, Cron, or GitOps
Trigger geo-distributed tests in a way that works with your team’s workflow. Whether it’s a CI pipeline, a cron job, or a GitOps-triggered deployment, Testkube adapts to your DevOps strategy.
Supported triggers include:
- GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins
- Scheduled jobs
- Kubernetes resource changes
- API or CLI commands
Unified Results from All Regions
With Testkube, you don’t need to chase logs or manually compare test runs across environments. All test results, logs, and artifacts are collected and displayed in a single dashboard—giving your team full visibility into performance across regions.
Drill down by cluster, time, or test to troubleshoot issues faster and more effectively. Server load testing across regions that your cloud providers offer.
