Running distributed JMeter test on Azure DevOps within build pipeline

Question

I need to do distributed load testing in Azure with JMeter.

I don't see how to proceed to do it:

• Using an approach similar to this one
• Using JMeter core distributed testing, I would need to setup 1 master and slave nodes, but I don't see how to do it in a pipeline as I would need to start multiple vms

Answer 1

One of the best ways to use JMeter in Azure pipelines is configuring your performance test cases as a maven project. As a result you don't need to use the deprecated Cloud-based Apache JMeter Load Test task.

There is an existing plugin that helps you with this:

<plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>com.lazerycode.jmeter</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jmeter-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.9.0</version>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <id>jmeter-tests</id>
                            <phase>verify</phase>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>jmeter</goal>
                            </goals>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                    <configuration>
                        <resultsFileFormat>xml</resultsFileFormat>
                        <propertiesUser>
                            <hostname>${test.hostname}</hostname>
                            <env>${test.env}</env>
                        </propertiesUser>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>

More information is available here :

1. https://github.com/jmeter-maven-plugin/jmeter-maven-plugin/wiki/Basic-Configuration.
2. https://github.com/jmeter-maven-plugin/jmeter-maven-plugin/wiki/Remote-Server-Configuration

I have been working with this plugin for a year now and it has amazing support.

I am using Terraform for starting /destroying the new VM machines in the pipeline using shell scripts.