williamyeh/wrk repository overview

⁠Docker-Wrk

⁠Summary

Repository name in Docker Hub: williamyeh/wrk⁠

This repository contains Dockerized wrk⁠, published to the public Docker Hub⁠ via automated build mechanism.

⁠Configuration

This docker image contains the following software stack:

• Alpine 3

• Basic libgcc stuff.

• wrk

Total image size is less than 10 MB.

⁠Dependencies

• williamyeh/ansible:mini-alpine3⁠.

⁠History

• 4.0.2 - Change base image from scratch to williamyeh/ansible:mini-alpine3⁠ (beginning from williamyeh/wrk:4.0.2).

• 4.0.1 - Change base image from debian:jessie⁠ to scratch (beginning from williamyeh/wrk:4.0.1).

• 1.2 - Add: demo screencast.

• 1.1 - Add: VOLUME /data for Lua script file.

• 1.0 - Initial release.

⁠Installation

Pull all versions:

$ docker pull williamyeh/wrk

Pull specific version:

$ docker pull williamyeh/wrk:4.0.2

⁠Comparison

See the following screencast for a simple comparison between native vs. Dockerized versions of wrk: http://youtu.be/bXF6blDP0s0⁠

⁠Usage

⁠Show usage

$ docker run --rm williamyeh/wrk

⁠Script example

$ docker run --rm  -v `pwd`:/data  \
      williamyeh/wrk  \
      -s script.lua  http://www.google.com/

⁠More examples

Digital Ocean has a great introduction to this utility: How To Benchmark HTTP Latency with wrk on Ubuntu 14.04⁠