A utility for arming (creating) many bees (micro EC2 in stances) to attack (load test) targets (web applications).

Required:

• boto
• fabric
• paramiko

Recommended:

• virtualenv
• virtualenvwrapper

% cd beeswithmachineguns % mkvirtualenv --no-site-packages bees % easy_install pip % pip install -r requirements.txt 

fab -f bees.py up:5,staging,us-east-1d fab -f bees.py attack:http://YOUR-DOMAIN.com/,1000,100 fab -f bees.py down 

The AMI to clone and SSH key to use are currently hard-coded into the up() function, expect this to be fixed shortly. In the meantime, its open-source, fork it!

• Python 2.6

A creation of the News Applications team at the Chicago Tribune—visit our blog and read our post about the project

MIT.