When come to performance load testing tool, people usually think of Apache JMeter; open source, widely supported and free. JMeter with total control, flexibility and user friendliness make the perfect choice for load testing. This should be the same for load testing Apache Kafka on container platform such as OpenShift Container Platform. Let’s look at how we can use JMeter to perform Kafka load testing on OpenShift.
These open source tools are used by Red Hat to help their customers in digital transformation journey making the application modernization more achievable and easier compared to the past, with higher success rate.
Application modernisation is not just about the applications but also need to consider the impact of the modernising exercise to the existing internal costing and budgeting model (if any), governance processes & policies (or SDLC), the supporting services, the operation and application team, and the underlying application platform.
Let’s look at step by step how to enable resource monitoring on OpenShift. Container application resources monitoring is simplified with Operator Hub, Prometheus Operator and OpenShift. With the built-in resource monitoring on OpenShift, your application team will just need to focus on application development and at the same being able to get performance feedback from Prometheus on OpenShift.
Creating your own version of container image for Kafka Connect for OpenShift is pretty straightforward with simple few steps as outlined in this article.