hashicorp / consul-global-scale-benchmark

Terraform configurations and helper scripts for Consul Global Scale Benchmark

Consul Global Scale Benchmark

The repository contains Terraform config and scripts required to run the Consul Global Scale Benckmark for HashiCorp Consul on Amazon Web Services.

Prerequisites

• HashiCorp Terraform v0.13.5

Structure

There are two Terraform projects that help setup the experiment.

1. infrastructure - This directory contains the Terraform configuration for setting up the infrastructure for the experiment.

2. services - This directory contains the Terraform configuration for the services that run on the Kubernetes and Nomad clusters.

Provisioning Infrastructure

The benchmark uses Terraform to initialize infrastructure.

Prerequisites

• Terraform remote state backend.

Note: Any of the Terraform remote backends can be used for this project.

Using Terraform Cloud backend.

• Follow this tutorial to sign up.
• Edit infrastructure/remote.tf file and add Terraform Cloud organization name.

  terraform {
    backend "remote" {
      organization = "YOUR_TERRAFORM_CLOUD_ORGANIZATION_NAME_HERE"
  
      workspaces {
        name = "consul-scalability-challenge-infrastructure"
      }
    }
  }

Create Infrastructure via HashiCorp Terraform

cd infrastructure

Initialize Terraform

terraform init

Run Terraform apply

terraform apply -var="key_name=consul-global-scale-challenge" -var="datadog_api_key=${DATADOG_API_KEY}" -parallelism="100"

More documentation coming soon!