ALB Cost Testing

Some rough code for provisioning AWS test environment, to measure the cost of adding an Application Load Balancer (ALB).

Two use-cases:

1. tf-standalone-server is a VM hosting a web-server, with an elastic IP.
2. tf-alb-server in a VM with an application load balancer in front of it.

The /scripts/ directory gives a starting point for generating load against the web-site to cause a lot of ingress and egress traffic.

To replicate my tests, you'd have to do a few tweaks including:

• Change the provider.tf to use your IAM Role.
• Change the security groups' CIDR blocks so you can reach the VM / endpoint.
• Change the scripts/, such as for the file paths and the IP addresses of your endpoints. (use nslookup to get the two IP addresses of the ALB, so you can hit both availability zones.)

Warning: consider this code as a starting point; it was only ever used for a single use-case; it is a very long way from being production quality or from following best practices!