xk6-ssh

A k6 extension for using of SSH in testing. Built for k6 using xk6.

Build

To build a k6 binary with this extension, first ensure you have the prerequisites:

• Go toolchain
• Git

Then:

1. Download xk6:

go install github.com/grafana/xk6/cmd/xk6@latest

2. Build the binary:

xk6 build --with github.com/grafana/xk6-ssh@latest

This will result in a k6 binary in the current directory.

Example

import ssh from 'k6/x/ssh';

export default function () {
  ssh.connect({
    username: `${__ENV.K6_USERNAME}`,
    password: `${__ENV.K6_PASSWORD}`,
    host: [HOSTNAME],
	port: 22
  })
  console.log(ssh.run('pwd'))
}

Result output:

$ ./k6 run script.js

          /\      |‾‾| /‾‾/   /‾‾/   
     /\  /  \     |  |/  /   /  /    
    /  \/    \    |     (   /   ‾‾\  
   /          \   |  |\  \ |  (‾)  | 
  / __________ \  |__| \__\ \_____/ .io

  execution: local
     script: ../xk6-ssh/script.js
     output: -

  scenarios: (100.00%) 1 scenario, 1 max VUs, 10m30s max duration (incl. graceful stop):
           * default: 1 iterations for each of 1 VUs (maxDuration: 10m0s, gracefulStop: 30s)

INFO[0001] /home/userfolder                                 source=console

running (00m01.4s), 0/1 VUs, 1 complete and 0 interrupted iterations
default ✓ [======================================] 1 VUs  00m01.4s/10m0s  1/1 iters, 1 per VU

     data_received........: 0 B 0 B/s
     data_sent............: 0 B 0 B/s
     iteration_duration...: avg=1.41s min=1.41s med=1.41s max=1.41s p(90)=1.41s p(95)=1.41s
     iterations...........: 1   0.706079/s
     vus..................: 1   min=1 max=1
     vus_max..............: 1   min=1 max=1

Testing Locally

This repo includes a docker-compose.yml file that starts an OpenSSH Server from LinuxServer.io. The examples directory contains scripts that are configured to work with this environment out of the box.

⚠️ Be sure that you've already compiled your custom k6 binary as described in the Build section!

We'll use this environment to run some examples.

1. Start the docker compose environment.

   docker compose up -d

   Once you see the following, you should be ready.

   [+] Running 2/2
    ⠿ Network xk6-ssh_default             Created
    ⠿ Container xk6-ssh-openssh-server-1  Started

   Next, we'll use the k6 binary we compiled in the Build section above.

2. Using our custom k6 binary, we can execute our example scripts.

   ./k6 run examples/connect-by-rsa-key.js

   The RSA example will then connect to the local SSH server using the example_rsa private key.

FAQ

How to start sudo commands?

Basically we don't provide sudo password autofill. We suggest to use /etc/sudoers for this purpose. Please checkout this article for more details.