Apache JMeter generates requests according to a test plan so a team can measure how an application behaves under load. A distributed setup uses several test engines, coordinated from a controller, when one generator is not enough for the intended workload. This is useful for testing response times and failures at a defined request level. Each engine runs the plan, so the total load must be calculated rather than assumed to be shared automatically.
Deployment and operating notes
The archived chart metadata identifies JMeter 3.3 and pedrocesar-ti/distributed-jmeter-docker, not a current Apache-maintained Kubernetes deployment. Apache’s remote-testing manual remains the authority for distributed execution. It makes an important distinction: each remote engine runs the complete test plan, so adding engines multiplies the configured threads rather than dividing them automatically.
Pin matching JMeter, Java and plugin versions across controller and engines. Keep test data, certificates and any custom libraries consistent, and review the remote-execution network and TLS requirements before exposing ports. Design the total target load explicitly, with a stop condition and authorization for the endpoint being tested. Measure generator CPU and network saturation so a client bottleneck is not mistaken for server capacity. Save results outside temporary pods and verify error rates and latency distributions, not only aggregate throughput. Replacing the chart should preserve workload semantics first; no load benchmark or current-chart compatibility test was performed in this review.
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Apache Jmeter is an open source tool that helps creating and running load test plans. This helm/chart was created to help you running different versions of JMeter in a distributed fashion in a master / server architecture
- Deploy a JMeter master (by default 1) that is responsible to store the test plans and test results after running on the servers.
- Deploy a JMeter server service (by default 3 replicas) that are responsible to run the actual test and send back the results to the master.
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