Use k6 Operator with k6 extensions

By default, the k6 Operator uses ghcr.io/grafana/k6-operator:latest-runner as the container image for the test jobs.

If you want to use k6 extensions built with xk6, you’ll need to create your own image and override the image property on the TestRun Kubernetes resource.

For example, this is a Dockerfile that builds a k6 binary with the xk6-output-influxdb extension:

# Build the k6 binary with the extension
FROM golang:1.20 as builder

RUN go install go.k6.io/xk6/cmd/xk6@latest

# For our example, we'll add support for output of test metrics to InfluxDB v2.
# Feel free to add other extensions using the '--with ...'.
RUN xk6 build \
    --with github.com/grafana/xk6-output-influxdb@latest \
    --output /k6

# Use the operator's base image and override the k6 binary
FROM grafana/k6:latest
COPY --from=builder /k6 /usr/bin/k6

You can build the image based on this Dockerfile by executing:

docker build -t k6-extended:local .

After the build completes, you can push the resulting k6-extended:local image to an image repository accessible to your Kubernetes cluster.

You can then use that image as follows:

# k6-resource-with-extensions.yml

apiVersion: k6.io/v1alpha1
kind: TestRun
metadata:
  name: k6-sample-with-extensions
spec:
  parallelism: 4
  script:
    configMap:
      name: my-stress-test
      file: test.js
  runner:
    image: k6-extended:local
    env:
      - name: K6_OUT
        value: xk6-influxdb=http://influxdb.somewhere:8086/demo

Note that this examples overrides the default image with k6-extended:latest, and it includes environment variables that are required by the xk6-output-influxdb extension.