• Write your own benchmarks with Cloud WorkBench: https://github.com/sealuzh/cwb-benchmarks
• Install CWB: https://github.com/sealuzh/cwb-chef-repo
• cwb Utility Cookbook (Chef): https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/cwb
• cwb Client (RubyGem): https://github.com/sealuzh/cwb
  • Cwb::Client Docs

• J. Scheuner, P. Leitner, J. Cito, and H. Gall, Cloud WorkBench – Infrastructure-as-Code Based Cloud Benchmarking, in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom’14), 2014.
• J. Scheuner, J. Cito, P. Leitner, and H. Gall, Cloud WorkBench: Benchmarking IaaS Providers based on Infrastructure-as-Code, in Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’15) – Demo Track, 2015.
  • Screencast (previous version): https://youtu.be/0yGFGvHvobk?t=3m40s

• Christian Davatz, Christian Inzinger, Joel Scheuner, and Philipp Leitner. 2017. An Approach and Case Study of Cloud Instance Type Selection for Multi-Tier Web Applications. In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid '17). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 534-543. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGRID.2017.12

• Philipp Leitner, Jürgen Cito (2016). Patterns in the Chaos - A Study of Performance Variation and Predictability in Public IaaS Clouds. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 16(3), pp. 15:1–15:23. New York, NY, USA.

• Joel Scheuner, Jürgen Cito, Philipp Leitner, Harald C. Gall (2015). Cloud WorkBench: Benchmarking IaaS Providers Based on Infrastructure-as-Code. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, pp. 239–242, New York, NY, USA.

• Philipp Leitner, Joel Scheuner (2015). Bursting With Possibilities – an Empirical Study of Credit-Based Bursting Cloud Instance Types. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC)

• Joel Scheuner, Philipp Leitner, Jürgen Cito, Harald Gall (2014). Cloud WorkBench - Infrastructure-as-Code Based Cloud Benchmarking. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom'14)

Interested in your own Cloud WorkBench installation?
Feel free to contact us: leitner[AT]ifi.uzh.ch or joel.scheuner[AT]uzh.ch

Most parts are automated and configurable via Chef, some manual steps are required to setup credentials and Chef server configuration.

Step-by-step guidance is given here: https://github.com/sealuzh/cwb-chef-repo

Automated as part of the installation or manually triggerable.