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Scale Your K6 Tests

With Testkube’s Advanced Test Execution Workflows
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The K6 operator is a fine open source tool for running distributed K6 tests in a cluster. Testkube, using it’s advanced workflows capabilities is a superior method to scale both K6 tests, but other functional, load, and home grown testing scripts.

Testkube is a better orchestration platform for K6 scaling due to:

  • Heterogenous support for all testing tools, not just K6
  • Ease of use to define k6 test orchestrations without deep knowledge of Kubernetes
  • Flexibility in pass parameters and the ability to implement custom setup/tear down logic
  • Multiple test trigger types including CI/CD, manual, schedule, or GitUps all built in
  • Centralized log and artifact retrieval
  • Centralized dashboard of results
Compare:K6 OperatorTestkube Advanced Workflows
Define
Orchestrate K6 tests plus other load testing and functional testing tools
No
Yes
Support for custom load testing scripts
No
Yes
Config-map or file K6 test sources
Yes
Yes
GIT as a K6 test source
No
Yes
Method of test execution definition
Create complex CR
Samples/Quick Wizard to generate Workflow
Level of Kubernetes expertise required to define a test execution
High
Low
Support for unique parameters for each node
Some
Yes
Ability to manage lifecycle of SUT or required services
No
Yes
Custom setup/tearDown logic
No
Yes
Trigger
Method(s) of triggering K6 load test
Create a TestRun CR
Manually, on a schedule, as part of CI/CD process, based on a change in kubernetes resources, via CLI/API
Orchestrate and scale other testing tools
No - K6 Only
Yes
Scale
Number of VUs
Total VUs depending on your infrastructure
Total VUs depending on your infrastructure
Run different tests on different nodes
Limited
Easy
Troubleshoot
Log Retrieval
Manually retrieve logs from pods running tests
Automatic log consolidation
Report
K6 Test Results Reporting
Optional connection to Grafana cloud
Single pane of glass dashboard for all test results including K6, but also other testing tools
Consolidated reporting of other testing tools
None
Consolidate reporting for all testing tools.

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