![]() It can be tough to keep all of your software up to date and running on the latest version, however, because our Cloud version of Gatling Enterprise is hosted by us, it is constantly receiving updates. Cloud with Private Locations: Always up to date.All you need to do is host one docker container which will spawn your load generators and you’re good to go. Gatling Enterprise Cloud is hosted by us on the Cloud and there is no need to set up and host your own database. One to spawn the load injectors and one for the Cassandra database. Gatling Enterprise Self-Hosted requires at least 2 Linux based machines to set up correctly. Cloud with Private Locations: Lighter and faster setup.Let’s take a look at what use cases Gatling Enterprise Cloud might be better suited for than the Self-Hosted version and where the Self-Hosted version should still be used: What are some of the advantages over Gatling Enterprise Self-Hosted? Any drawbacks?Īs you may have noticed, Private Locations offer a lot of the features that Gatling Enterprise Self-Hosted has offered for years. Load generated within your own network avoids this noise and can give you more accurate response times. For most response times this is trivial, but if you have response times of 10 ms or less this noise can be statistically relevant. However, any time you’re performing a test over the internet, there’s a bit of noise involved in the test. The load generators used by Gatling Enterprise Cloud can give you a realistic idea of your applications response times to traffic from around the world. With Private Locations you now have the ability to use load generators located within your local network to test these applications. However, many applications might not have a public endpoint at all, and in these cases they’d normally have to use Gatling Enterprise Self-Hosted. Gatling Enterprise Cloud has the ability to test applications that are behind a firewall by using our dedicated IPs. Test without a public endpoint or on a test environment.With Private Locations though, users can now generate all their simulated traffic on load generators they control, eliminating this issue. In the past, Gatling Enterprise Cloud wouldn’t be a viable option for these products. However, due to government and industry regulations or strong IT requirements some load testing projects may be prohibited from using load generators that aren’t in their own network. I’ll start by saying that Gatling Enterprise Cloud is already very secure. With that being said, here are a few of the advantages you can expect if you begin using Private Locations: The AWS-based load generators that Gatling offers around the world can meet most companies’ challenges. Gatling Enterprise Cloud is already great for testing most projects. Great, so what does this mean for my Gatling Enterprise Cloud account? In short, Private Locations give you many of the benefits of Gatling Enterprise’s Self-Hosted version along with the flexibility, easy setup, and accessibility of Gatling Enterprise’s Cloud version. It IS like Gatling Enterprise Self-Hosted! Except rather than installing Gatling Enterprise locally and setting up a Cassandra database to store your stats, your dataviz and statistics are all stored and accessible from anywhere on Gatling Enterprise Cloud. Wait, that sounds like Gatling Enterprise Self-Hosted… In a normal Gatling Enterprise Cloud simulation, the traffic is generated by Gatling controlled AWS-based load generators from around the world, which works perfectly for many use cases. ![]() Private Locations is a feature that allows you to use your own locally hosted load generators to produce the simulated traffic that occurs during a Gatling simulation. ![]() Once again, I’d urge you to read this post but if you don’t want to I’ll give a quick explanation here. What are Private Locations? And how can they help you with your testing strategy? Hopefully you’ve heard the news already, and if not check out this post by our CEO, Paul-Henri Pillet, but Gatling Enterprise Cloud has a brand new feature: Private Locations. ![]()
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