Load Testing Orchestration

Scale Your K6 Tests

with Testkube’s Advanced Test Execution Workflows

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.

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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 Operator	Testkube 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.

K6 Operator	Testkube 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.