Consul Global Scale Benchmark

The repository contains Terraform config and scripts required to run the Consul Global Scale Benckmark for HashiCorp Consul on Amazon Web Services.

Prerequisites

• HashiCorp Terraform v0.13.5

Structure

There are two Terraform projects that help setup the experiment.

1. infrastructure - This directory contains the Terraform configuration for setting up the infrastructure for the experiment.

2. services - This directory contains the Terraform configuration for the services that run on the Kubernetes and Nomad clusters.

Provisioning Infrastructure

The benchmark uses Terraform to initialize infrastructure.

Prerequisites

• Terraform remote state backend.

Note: Any of the Terraform remote backends can be used for this project.

Using Terraform Cloud backend.

• Follow this tutorial to sign up.
• Edit infrastructure/remote.tf file and add Terraform Cloud organization name.

  terraform {
    backend "remote" {
      organization = "YOUR_TERRAFORM_CLOUD_ORGANIZATION_NAME_HERE"
  
      workspaces {
        name = "consul-scalability-challenge-infrastructure"
      }
    }
  }

Create Infrastructure via HashiCorp Terraform

cd infrastructure

Initialize Terraform

terraform init

Run Terraform apply

terraform apply -var="key_name=consul-global-scale-challenge" -var="datadog_api_key=${DATADOG_API_KEY}" -parallelism="100"

More documentation coming soon!