How to increase load on stateful application in kubernetes cluster using a script

Question

I have implemented horizontal pod autoscaler for my stateful application. How can I increase the load on this application do that my CPU utilisation goes up and pods are autoscaled

Answer 1

• you can use Kubernetes performance testing tutorial: Load test a cluster as an example how to perform load test on cluster

• you can use kubernetes-jmeter to generate workloads to achieve load testing

• you can write script using any lang you know to generate a load

In any case, I would like to recommend you start from 13-Step Guide to Performance Testing in Kubernetes to check how you can setup performance testing with monitoring