Consul Benchmark ================ This repo contains the Packer automation necessary for the Consul benchmarks. There is a single main Packer file `bench.json`. To use it, the variables for `do_client_id` and `do_api_key` must be provided. There correspond to your DigitalOcean client id and API key. When Packer runs, it will generate 3 images: * bench-bootstrap - Consul server in bootstrap mode * bench-server - Consul server * bench-worker - Worker node For the benchmark you should start 1 bootstrap instance, and 2 normal servers. As many workers as desired can be started. Once the nodes are up, you must SSH into one of the Consul servers. Connect all the nodes with: $ consul join <n1> ... <n5> This will connect all the nodes within the same datacenter. To run the benchmarks, use the Makefile: $ cd / $ make # Runs all the benchmarks $ make put # Runs only the PUT benchmarks There is no good way to currently cause multiple workers to run at the same time, so I just type in the make command and rapidly start the test on all workers. It is not perfect, but the test runs long enough that the calls overlap.