Way to use locust.io by supplying user list

Question

I need to stress-test a system and http://locust.io seems like the best way to go about this. However, it looks like it is set up to use the same user every time. I need eac

Answer 1

I took a slightly different approach when implementing this for a distributed system. I utilized a very simple flask server that I made a get call to during the on_start portion of the TaskSet.

from flask import Flask, jsonify
app = Flask(__name__)

count = 0    #Shared Variable

@app.route("/")
def counter():
    global count

    count = count+1
    tenant = count // 5 + 1
    user = count % 5 + 1

    return jsonify({'count':count,'tenant':"load_tenant_{}".format(str(tenant)),'admin':"admin",'user':"load_user_{}".format(str(user))})

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()

In this way I now have an endpoint I can get at http://localhost:5000/ on whatever host I run this. I just need to make this endpoint accessible to the slave systems and I wont have to worry about duplicate users or some type of round robin effect caused by having a limited set of user_info.