k6 extensions updates with Ivan Szkiba (k6 Office Hours #99)

k6 extensions updates with Ivan Szkiba (k6 Office Hours #99)

Aug 31, 2023

In this episode of k6 Office Hours, Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Paul Balogh are joined by Ivan Szkiba, the latest Grafanista of the k6 team, to discuss the latest developments on the k6 extensions.

Github repository containing the demo from Ivan Szkiba: https://github.com/szkiba/k6-oh-99

Links shared:

List of templates and extensions discussed:

⏰ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction

03:30 What is Ivan Szkiba doing in k6?

06:08 Brief background as to why Ivan started creating k6 extensions

09:01 Which k6 extension that Ivan created is the most popular?

10:48 Ivan's experience so far of joining Grafana and his week of load testing

13:39 Walkthrough and presentation that Ivan created for this k6 Office Hours

17:05 my-k6 bundler demonstration

22:02 xk6bundler extension

23:35 xk6-dashboard demonstration

39:04 xk6-faker demonstration

41:23 xk6-enhanced demonstration

44:20 xk6-g0 demonstration

50:24 xk6-top demonstration

53:59 xk6-output-plugin demonstration

Contact Marie:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcruzdrake
Site: https://www.testingwithmarie.com/

Contact Paul:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/javaducky
Site: https://javaducky.com/

Contact Ivan:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/szkiba/
Site: https://ivan.szkiba.hu/

Learn more about k6:
Website: https://k6.io
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/k6