user-simulator

User Simulator

A benign user simulator for Unguard. Uses a real browser to simulate a user that does various tasks on the specified Unguard frontend.

Executes following tasks:

• register / login
• visit frontpage
• like a post
• visit personal timelines
• post text posts
• post URL posts
• post image posts
• visit users page and search for admanager user
• upgrades membership status
• log out

Note: Currently it only executes all the tasks once. To apply load continually, a cronjob is used that starts the user-simulator periodically

Prerequisites

• Node 14.20 (recommended)
• Yarn

Install all the dependencies by running:

yarn install

Adjust the following environment variables to fit your environment:

Name	Example Value	Description
FRONTEND_ADDR	unguard-envoy-proxy:8080/ui	The base address for the Unguard frontend, contains no protocol or trailing slash
SIMULATE_PRIVATE_RANGES	true	Set to true if you want the user simulator to generate traffic from private IP ranges only

Running the user simulator

1. Start Unguard
2. Run the user simulator, pointing it to the Unguard frontend

export FRONTEND_ADDR="unguard-envoy-proxy:8080/ui"
yarn start