Mario Leander Reimer: K8s-native Quality Assurance of Microservices with Testkube
summary
Argues that moving test execution into the cluster removes brittle monolithic CI and lets integration, performance and security tests run continuously against real environments using Testkube as a k8s-native test orchestration engine. Shows executors for k6, JMeter, Playwright/Cypress, Maven/Gradle and Postman, triggers on Kubernetes events (image change, deployment scale from 1→3) and GitOps flow with ArgoCD/Flux and a GitOps-managed test repo. Demonstrates live runs, added Java executors upstream, and a Grafana/time‑series dashboard as a single source of truth — the demo runs and triggers correctly.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to microservices quality assurance
- 1:23Monolith to microservices
- 3:53Why microservices complicate testing
- 7:42Software quality 2024
- 14:05CI/CD pipeline pitfalls
- 17:17Testing distributed systems
- 20:27Digital product assembly line
- 24:20Cloud-native QA pipeline
- 27:50Introducing Testkube
- 31:00Testkube demo
- 38:17Single source of truth
- 41:07Q&A
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