What is Kube-burner?

Kube-burner is a tool aimed at stressing kubernetes clusters. The main functionallity it provides can be summarized in these three steps:

• Create/delete the objects declared in the jobs.
• Collect desired on-cluster prometheus metrics.
• Write and/or index them to the configured TSDB.

But it also provides other features like

• Standalone metrics collection
• Alerting
• PProf collection
• Pod startup latency measurements

Documentation

Documentation is available at https://kube-burner.readthedocs.io/

Downloading Kube-burner

In case you want to start tinkering with Kube-burner now:

• You can find the binaries in the releases section of the repository.
• There's also a container image available at quay.
• Example configuration files can be found at the examples directory.