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.
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
| 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. |
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