Awesome k6

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Contents

• Extensions
• Articles
• Videos
• Reference Projects
• Tools
• CI
• Stacks

Extensions

• GitHub Topic: xk6 - Explore k6 extensions tagged with the xk6 label.

Articles

• k6 Learn - Explanation of the principles of load testing and practical examples for how to do it with k6.

• Beginner's guide to load testing with k6 - Introductory guide in several parts, helping you get started with k6.

• Distributed load testing with k6 - Thijs Feryn presents in ConFoo Montreal 2023

• Load Testing with k6 - Brief overview of features and capabilities of k6.

• Integrating k6 with Apache Kafka - Sending output from k6 to Apache Kafka.

• Test and visualize with InfluxDB, Grafana and K6 - Setting up load tests and visualizing them using grafana dashboards.

• Open source load testing tool review 2020 - Detailed comparison of the most popular open source load testing tools.

• Load Testing Your API with Swagger/OpenAPI and k6 - Generate k6 load test scripts from OpenAPI specifications.

• Load Testing Your API with Postman - How to use Postman collections to load test your API.

• Load Testing & Black Friday capacity planning - How Back Market prepared for Black Friday with k6 based load testing.

• Load Testing SQL Databases with k6 - How to use the xk6-sql extension to test SQL databases directly.

• Introducing TestRail in your K6 tests - Reporting k6 output to TestRail.

• Beautiful Load Testing With K6 and Docker Compose - How to run load tests using the awesome combination of Docker Compose, K6, InfluxDB and Grafana.

• Load Testing with Azure DevOps and k6 - How to setup Azure DevOps to perform automated load tests using k6, handleCallback, and JUnit.

• K6 — Custom Slack Integration: Metrics are the Magic of Tests - How to send k6 output results to Slack using the handleSummary callback.

• Load testing with k6 - Using k6 for load, soak, stress, spike and smoke testing.

• How to write three times fewer lines of code when doing load testing - Building a k6 extension in Go to test Tarantool.

• Load Testing. k6 + TypeScript + Azure DevOps

• Performance testing with k6 - On API performance testing, with Open API and TypeScript.

• k6 introduces browser automation and Prometheus support in k6 OSS - From the Grafana blog: feature announcements at ObservabilityCON 2021.

• Testing shift left observability with the Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, and k6 - From the Grafana blog: a summary of Executive Director of Platform Engineering at JPMorgan Chase, Vinodh Ravi's talk at ObservabilityCON 2021.

• Umbraco 9 - What a Performance! - Test the performance of Umbraco v9 on Azure against Umbraco v8 and comparing Windows vs Linux.

• On maintaining a k6 codebase, Part 1 - Personal tips to maintain a challenging k6 load testing codebase.

• Distributed Load Testing With K6 - Setting up distributed execution with k6-operator and Argo workflows.

• Load testing with k6 and k8s - The Toucan DevOps team explains why they chose k6 as their load testing tool and how they deploy it on k8s

Videos

• k6 YouTube Channel
• How to use k6 Cloud for load testing - A series of quick videos for getting started with k6 Cloud.
• Intro to load testing with k6 and Grafana (k6 data source plugin and Prometheus Remote Write)
• From Grafana ObservabilityCON: Intro to using k6 load testing with the Grafana observability stack
• From Grafana ObservabilityCON: Building performance tests into your CI pipeline with k6 and Grafana, w/ Matthew Churcher, QA Engineer at Vonage
• EveryoneCanContribute cafe: Load Performance Testing with k6
• Playlist - What others says about k6
  • What is K6 & How to get started with k6 - Tutorial using k6 Extensions for Observability by "Is it Observable?"
  • Website Performance + Load Testing with K6 (k6.io) in 5 MINUTES! - Introductory overview of k6, showing how to create a test from a HAR file, by the DevOps Directive.
  • Performance Testing your web app with k6 - A walkthrough of the open-source load and performance regression testing tool, k6, and how to load test your APIs and websites, by Chris James.
  • Application Load Testing with k6 - Daniel Knittl-Frank @TechTalk Days 2021, Intro to k6.
  • Performance testing: from zero to hero with k6 & Azure - Jose Luis Latorre Millas at Cloud Summit 2021.
  • Write load tests with co-pilot - Yusuf writing k6 tests using GitHub co-pilot.

Reference Projects

• k6-circleci-example - Running k6 load tests as part of a CircleCI build.
• k6-jenkins-example - Running k6 load tests as part of a Jenkins build.
• k6-github-actions-example - Running k6 load tests as part of a GitHub Actions build.
• k6-azure-pipelines-example - Running k6 load tests as part of an Azure DevOps Pipeline.
• k6-bitbucket-pipelines-example - Running k6 load tests as part of a Bitbucket Pipeline build.
• k6-performance-test-websocket - Example of performance test for websocket with k6.
• k6-template-es6 - Template repository for bundling test projects into single test scripts runnable by k6.
• k6 templates - Opinionated starter templates for k6 projects.
• k6-typescript-template - Template to use TypeScript with k6.
• example-data-generation - Generate realistic data for k6 using faker.
• bounded-disturbances - A .NET Chaos Engineering workshop. Using Simmy and k6.
• continuous-k6k8s - Continuously run k6 tests in Kubernetes using cronjobs.
• k6-multiscenario-template - Use K6 to implement a Multi Scenario template.
• docker-k6-grafana-influxdb - Demonstrates how to run load tests with containerised instances of K6, Grafana and InfluxDB.

Tools

• k6-to-junit - Tool for converting k6 output to JUnit XML for easy use with CIs.
• k6-reporter - Tool for converting k6 output to HTML reports.
• k6-html-reporter - Tool for generating k6 HTML reports.
• har-to-k6 - Tool for converting HAR recordings to k6 test scripts.
• postman-to-k6 - Tool for converting Postman collections to k6 test scripts.
• k6 generator - Tool for converting Swagger/OpenAPI specifications to k6 test scripts.
• jmeter-to-k6 - Tool for converting JMeter test cases to k6 test scripts.
• jslib.k6.io - Useful utility libs for k6 scripts.
• k6 for visual studio code - Marketplace Extension for running k6 directly from your IDE.
• k6 for IntelliJ - IntelliJ-based Plugin to run k6 tests locally or in the k6 Cloud from your IntelliJ IDE.
• k6 Testkube executor
• k6-junit - k6 JUnit summary exporter libray.
• k6-expect - k6 library that simplifies writing tests in a functional way by providing a jest-like syntax for expectations.

CI

• k6 for GitHub actions - Marketplace action for running k6 in GitHub Actions.
• k6 for Azure DevOps Pipelines - Marketplace Extension for running k6 in an Azure Devops Pipeline.
• k6 CircleCI Orb - k6 Orb for running k6 in CircleCI. Supports running tests both on the CircleCI runner and in the k6 cloud SaaS service.
• k6 for Atlassian Bamboo
• k6 for AWS CodeBuild
• k6 for Google Cloud Build
• k6 for Buddy CI/CD

Stacks

• CloudPosse's Load Testing Stack - Load testing stack using k6, Grafana and InfluxDB.
• Real-time stress: AnyCable, k6, WebSockets, and Yabeda - Evil Martians adding "real-time stress" with k6 and WebSockets.
• Scaling Confidently with the Load and Fault Team - Robinhood on load testing a Kubernetes system with k6.