Integrate Grafana Cloud k6 into your CI/CD pipeline with new k6 GitHub Actions

We have released two new k6 GitHub actions to make it easier to automate your Grafana Cloud k6 performance testing suite and projects.

You can now use the setup-k6-action to install a specific k6 version in your CI/CD workflow. This action provides flexibility when running multiple testing projects and faster execution of testing jobs.

With the new run-k6-action, you can:

Run local and cloud tests, as well as upload test results to Grafana Cloud k6.
Execute browser tests, hybrid performance tests, and pass CLI flags.
Select which tests to run using Glob patterns.
Choose between parallel or sequential test execution when running multiple tests.
Configure whether the job fails as soon as the first test fails or continues executing the remaining tests.
Automatically add links to Grafana Cloud k6 results in PR comments for easier access and review.

For example, here’s a GitHub workflow snippet using the new actions:

on:
  push:

jobs:
  protocol:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: grafana/setup-k6-action@v1
      - uses: grafana/run-k6-action@v1
        with:
          path: |
            ./tests/api*.js

To learn more, refer to this blog post and the following video demo: