Flux Operator Benchmark

Mean Time To Production benchmark for Flux Operator and the enterprise distribution.

Prerequisites

Running the benchmark requires an EKS Auto Mode cluster with a dedicated node pool for Flux:

• Karpenter NodePool
• Flux Operator configuration
• Flux Instance configuration

The benchmark measurements are taken with kube-prometheus-stack. The Grafana dashboards are available at:

• Monitoring configuration

The following CLI tools are required to run the benchmark:

• kubectl
• flux-operator

Running the Benchmark

Generate 1K HelmReleases and 1K Kustomizations in the benchmark namespace:

COUNT=1000 make benchmark

To trigger an update for all HelmReleases and Kustomizations via OCIRepository semver change, run:

VER=6.9.1 make set-version

To generate load on the Kubernetes API server, create CRDs with:

CRD_COUNT=100 make crds

To remove the generated CRDs, run:

make clean-crds

To remove the benchmark resources, run:

make clean