Docker provides an easy way to deploy your applications across multiple computers. You run applications in docker containers, which are universal for any operating system.
The ready-api-loadui-agent docker image provides you with preconfigured environment with the installed LoadUI agent that you can use in your distributed tests.
To run a LoadUI agent in a Docker container, use the following image from Docker Hub:
To be able to run a distributed load test, you must have a ReadyAPI Performance Pro license. You must activate it on the computer where you will run your load test.
Tip
You can use a trial license to try ReadyAPI Performance Pro out. To learn how to get it, see Activate Trial License Online Without ReadyAPI .
The docker image of a load agent does not require any additional license.
This topic describes how to use Docker with ReadyAPI on the Hyper-V virtualization platform. To do that, use the same environment you use to run your Docker images. There are no specific requirements for this.
To learn more, see the Docker documentation:
To run ReadyAPI tools in Docker containers on other virtualization platforms, additional configuration may be required. Please see the corresponding documentation.
To run the Docker LoadUI agent, use the following command:
docker run -p 1991:1991 smartbear/ready-api-loadui-agent
The -p option binds port 1991 of a container to port 1991 of the host machine. This is the default port used to connect ReadyAPI Performance with the LoadUI agent in the docker container.
If you want to bind the LoadUI agent to another host port, specify the desired port before the colon, for example -p 1992:1991.
ReadyAPI does not detect LoadUI agent running in Docker containers. You will have to add them manually:
In ReadyAPI Performance, open the Distribution page.
Click
to add an agent.In the subsequent dialog, specify the following:
Option
Description
Host
The address of the host where you run the container.
Port
The port on the host machine you bind to port 1991 of the container.