If you would like to test hpa, Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, or throw some chaos at a specific deployment in Kubernetes, then you could run a Load Generator

Step 1 – Run a BusyBox container

The following command will use a busybox container and dump you into it’s shell window:

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kubectl run -i --tty load-generator --image=busybox /bin/sh

As an alternative, you could also run:

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kubectl --generator=run-pod/v1 run -i --tty load-generator --image=busybox /bin/sh

Step 2 – Run a wget loop

You can now trigger a wget loop to make HTTP request calls to your deployment:

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while true; do wget -q -O - http://php-apache; done

The above command makes calls to a php-apache deployment.

Step 3 – Finding your deployment

You can swap out the above http://php-apache URL by finding out what your deployment is called. The following code will let you know the name of the deployments available in your cluster:

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kubectl get deploy