Design and Implementation of a Distributed Container-Deployed Web Business Traffic Generator

Network traffic simulation is of great significance in testbed for evaluating network security and performance of a system and so on. How to deeply simulate the traffic under the regular load of a business system is a key issue. We designed and developed a distributed container-deployed generator for Web business background traffic. The generator conducts in-depth customized simulation according to the characteristics of the spatio-temporal distribution of traffic, implements the distributions of user behaviors, and fine-tune the system by the feedback and adjustment function. The generator also supports distributed deployment in the form of containers. Experiments show that the traffic generator, which is developed on the basis of the open-source load testing tool Locust, can generate realistic traffic under the real load of the system under test, conform to the traffic characteristics in the real environment, and is easy to use and expand.