JMeter Packer

This repo creates custom AMI for JMeter on AWS.

Prerequisites

• Packer
• AWS Console Access

Usage

• Install Packer
• git clone https://github.com/QAInsights/Packer-JMeter.git
• cd Packer-JMeter\file or cd Packer-JMeter\shell
• packer build .
• Wait for a moment, typically it will take 3-5 minutes to create the AMI.
• The output contains the AMI ID and Region.

amazon-ebs.jmeter: output will be in this color.

==> amazon-ebs.jmeter: Prevalidating any provided VPC information
==> amazon-ebs.jmeter: Prevalidating AMI Name: jmeter_1643499054
    amazon-ebs.jmeter: Found Image ID: ami-001089eb624938d9f
...
...
...
...
==> amazon-ebs.jmeter: No volumes to clean up, skipping
==> amazon-ebs.jmeter: Deleting temporary security group...
==> amazon-ebs.jmeter: Deleting temporary keypair...
Build 'amazon-ebs.jmeter' finished after 3 minutes 59 seconds.

==> Wait completed after 3 minutes 59 seconds

==> Builds finished. The artifacts of successful builds are:
--> amazon-ebs.jmeter: AMIs were created:
us-east-2: ami-095b20c4727d864cb

• Copy the AMI ID to spin up the instance on AWS.

AMI Specifications

The AMI is created with the following specifications:

• Java Corretto
• Apache JMeter 5.4.3
• JMeter Plugins: jpgc-casutg,jpgc-functions
• us-east-2 region
• Base image: amzn2-ami-kernel-5.10-hvm-*-x86_64-gp2
• Owner: 137112412989

Customize the specifications

To customize the AMI, open jmeter-amazon.pkr.hcl file and change the specifications.

References

• https://apache.jmeter.org
• https://packer.io
• https://aws.amazon.com