Load & stress testing with Locust: Zero to hero!

Explore authentication and authorization in Locust testing, covering basic authentication, cookies, JWT, Paseto, session, and single sign-on with identity providers and SAML.

Master low-cost file uploading and downloading in Locust to stress test disk input-output operations. Verify integrity using hash sums and digest headers, and simulate network delay with tc and Docker.

Explore load and stress testing a caching layer with Locust, comparing pre-cached versus cold cached pages using Redis, preheating 30 pages and observing latency differences.

Generate Python gRPC stubs from proto, implement a Locust custom user with hello and delayed hello tasks, and run a gRPC load test with interceptors and accurate timing.

Leverage Locust to stress test an Oracle database by executing select and update queries through an Oracle client, configuring user, password, and DSN, and reporting response times in Locust UI.

Test queues with RabbitMQ using the pika adapter and Revit MQ, building a gevent-based Locust client to publish and consume messages across defined queues.

Define a simple Locust http user with tasks, tag tests for selective runs, run headless with a runtime limit, and use exit codes to signal CI/CD success or failure.

Generate html and csv reports with Locust using a headless 10-second run, saving to named files and viewing stats and charts in a browser.

Install locust-plugins dashboards, connect timescale with Postgres, and launch locust headlessly to stream test results into Grafana for real-time monitoring of responses and load.

Learn to perform distributed load testing with Locust by setting up a master and worker architecture, spinning up workers on separate machines, and running tests via the web UI.

Create a GitLab CI pipeline for Locust load testing by building a simple Python script, configuring GitLab CI YAML, and validating happy-path and failure scenarios with downloadable artifacts.

Create a low-cost Jenkins pipeline from source control to run Locust load tests for ci/cd, including setting up a Jenkins file, virtual environment, dependencies, and test execution.