BlazeMeter Taurus and JMeter container

See https://hub.docker.com/r/erxx/bzt-jm

Taurus / JMeter layered container bzt-erx:v0.4.1

See https://github.com/erxTesting/bzt-jm

Future

• incorporate functionality from prior Terraform/EC2 version of LG;
• Orchestration refinements, tagging, etc.
• Automated workload packaging and handoff
• Tweak and include configs; .ssh, .bzt-rc, folders/path (mkdir, chown)
• Resource allocations (JVM)
• Ongoing;
  • hardening,
  • thinning; java is bloated (cntr best practices, openjdk?),
    • python lib snip (cntr best practices, pip?), , etc.
• 0.4.1 Added jmeter_executor.yaml for elasticsearch streaming plugin instead of fluentd
• 0.4 Include configs, update java version
• 0.3 Tweaks, refinements and slight thinning
• 0.2 Thinned out to ~1.3 GB and debugged several issues and stabilities
• 0.1 Rough working draft; nearly 3 GB in size

Built on a minimal Ubuntu base image phusion/baseimage, modified for Docker-friendliness that only consumes 8.3 MB RAM and is much more powerful than Busybox or Alpine. Configured for correct use within Docker containers.

Build:

$ docker build -t bzt-jm:latest .

Run:

$ docker run -t -i --rm bzt-jm:<VERSION> /sbin/my_init -- bash -l