Running RabbitMQ's PerfTest tool in CloudFoundry
I recently had to troubleshoot performance of an app running in Cloud Foundry (Pivotal CF specifically) trying to use RabbitMQ. The RabbitMQ team provides a great benchmarking tool that we can use to validate performance of a RabbitMQ cluster, and we can use that tool inside a container running in Cloud Foundry. The following instructions assume you are using the CF CLI version 6.23.0+ (check with cf -v), and running against a Cloud Foundry that supports CC API v2.65.0+ (check with the cf target command after logging in to validate.) First, download the latest RabbitMQ PerfTest zip archive from the link in the above paragraph. I used GitHub releases page for the project, and just grabbed the latest release. Next, paste the following contents into a file in the same directory as the ZIP file you downloaded called "manifest-rabbitperf.yml" (making sure to update the "path" part to reflect the actual name of the ZIP file you downloaded: --- applications: - nam