04-20-apirule-performance.md

APIRule Performance Tests

Tests were performed on Gardener GCP cluster with the help of k6s on Kyma production profile. Requests were made from inside the cluster with HPA disabled for the sake of having identical environment on all runs. The tests were made using 500 Virtual Users making constant requests for 1 minute.

Performance of Deployments Without Istio Sidecar

Handler type	No. of successfull calls	No. of failed calls	Data recieved by server [MB]	Transfer speed (recieving) [kB/s]	Data sent by server [MB]	Transfer speed (sending) [kB/s]	Median request duration [ms]
Allow	291993	13	34	569	11	180	91.69
Noop (Ory)	74779	0	11	183	3.0	49	328.17
OAuth2	24198	4	5.5	89	6.3	104	861.75
Ory JWT	66775	5	10	169	17	282	388.36

Performance of Deployments with Istio Sidecar

Handler type	No. of successfull calls	No. of failed calls	Data recieved by server [MB]	Transfer speed (recieving) [kB/s]	Data sent by server [MB]	Transfer speed (sending) [kB/s]	Median request duration [ms]
Allow	242342	0	29	481	9.0	150	110.88
Noop (Ory)	75327	0	11	185	3.0	50	335.88
OAuth2	22295	99	5.3	87	5.9	97	1210.00
Istio JWT	208437	0	25	419	52	861	126.45
Ory JWT	63262	0	9.9	161	16	266	434.83