How can I install Alpine Apache Benchmark?

Question

When I run apk add --update ab there's an error:

bash-4.3# apk add --update ab
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: unsatisfiable constraints:
  ab (missing):
    required by: world[ab]
bash-4.3# apk add ab
ERROR: unsatisfiable constraints:
  ab (missing):
    required by: world[ab]

Answer 1

You're looking for the apache2-utils package:

https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/v3.8/main/x86_64/apache2-utils

It includes ab along with several other utilities. See package contents here.