Forget about dragons, here be locusts.

These scripts brings up a locust master/slave cluster in EC2.

<disclaimer> As a note, you'll be charged $$ using this. Since you can potentially bring up many EC2 nodes, if you don't understand what you're doing, don't run these scripts. </disclaimer>

Scripts perform the following using boto + fabric:

• Brings up an EC2 instance-store image
• Assigns a role-based tag to the instance
• Creates a security group to expose port 8089 for the locust master and authorizes the master/slave cluster to send/receive traffic from one another
• Copies over the contents of a user-specified directory to bootstrap the locust master/slave
• Executes a script named bootstrap.sh
• Executes locust in master/slave mode

pip install -r requirements.txt

To run these commands, you'll need to have at least two files in the user-specified directory:

• bootstrap.sh
• locustfile.py (your load test file)

The fabric scripts automatically will execute bootstrap.sh to run things like apt-get update, etc. Check out the included sample bootstrap.sh The script will automatically start locust in a master or slave configuration so it'll need your load test in a file called locustfile.py.

As a note, at some point, I'll refactor and wrap the locust install into the actual scripts instead of in the sample bootstrap.sh. For now, just take a peek there to see what I mean.

(All commands support -h flag)

To create a locust master, run the following:

python locust-swarm/swarm.py up master -c ./locust-swarm.cfg -d ./example/bootstrap-master/

• -c is a path to your configuration file ( sample )
• -d is a path to a directory containing your bootstrap.sh/locustfile (sample)

To create a locust slave, run the following:

python locust-swarm/swarm.py up slaves -c ./locust-swarm.cfg -d ./example/bootstrap-slave/ -s 5

• -c is a path to your configuration file (sample <https://github.com/ryankanno/locust-swarm/blob/master/locust-swarm.example.cfg)
• -d is a path to a directory containing your bootstrap.sh/locustfile (sample <https://github.com/ryankanno/locust-swarm/tree/master/example/bootstrap-slave)
• -s is the number of slaves you want to create

http://<master_ip>:8089/

• You should see your slaves connected to your master

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If you're on a Mac and gevent can't build because it doesn't know where the libevent header files are, you either:

• Haven't installed them (sudo port install libevent / brew install libevent)
• Told pip (or whatever installer) where they are. Set CFLAGS environment variable and install gevent individually (vs through a pip dependency)

• The locust-swarm.example.cfg uses ami_id=ami-ad3660c4 from alestic.com (ubuntu/images/ubuntu-precise-12.04-amd64-server-20131003). At some point, I'll probably have to figure out where an EC2 repository mirror is for bandwidth reasons.
• Sometimes, sudo apt-get update -y fails in the bootstrap.sh script. Need to investigate. I usually just bring down the swarm and bring everything back up.

• Enable swarm.py up all command
• Encapsulate a bit more of the swarm logic into a CommandController. This was a tiny weekend project. :D