Abstract: Virtualization technology has greatly accelerated the expansion of applications on the microservice architecture. As the complexity of these applications continues to increase, microservice performance may be significantly different from the expected. Therefore, the methods and evaluation criteria of microservice performance testing have become a topic that scholars have begun to explore. This paper draws on the testing methods and evaluation standards of Web service quality, and uses the simulation testing methods in the experiments. The Kubemark tool is used to test the performance of the microservice system on the Kubernetes platform, and the p-percentile indicator in RFC 2679 standard is used to analyze the results. Experimental results show that the performance of microservices is significantly affected by the type of load microservices, and simulation testing is an effective research method for microservices performance testing.

Key words: microservice, microservice performance, Kubernetes, Kubemark, cloud service