Detailed tutorial on distributed operation of jmeter in docker environment

# Use Java 8 slim JRE
FROM openjdk:8-jre-slim
MAINTAINER QJP

# JMeter version
ARG JMETER_VERSION=5.1.1

# Install few utilities
RUN apt-get clean && \
  apt-get update && \
  apt-get -qy install \
        wget \
        telnet \
        iputils-ping \
        unzip
# Install JMeter
RUN mkdir /jmeter \
   && cd /jmeter/ \
   && wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-$JMETER_VERSION.tgz \
   && tar -xzf apache-jmeter-$JMETER_VERSION.tgz \
   && rm apache-jmeter-$JMETER_VERSION.tgz
   
WORKDIR /jmeter/apache-jmeter-$JMETER_VERSION/bin
#Copy a jmeter.properties file from the current folder, and make sure to enable server.rmi.ssl.disable=true
COPY jmeter.properties .
# ADD all the plugins
ADD jmeter-plugins/lib /jmeter/apache-jmeter-$JMETER_VERSION/lib

# ADD the sample test
ADD sample-test sample-test

# Set JMeter Home
ENV JMETER_HOME /jmeter/apache-jmeter-$JMETER_VERSION/

# Add JMeter to the Path
ENV PATH $JMETER_HOME/bin:$PATH

docker build -t jmbase .

docker tag jmbase dockername/jmbase
docker push dockername/jmbase

# Use the jmbase base image FROM qjpdsg/jmbase
MAINTAINER TestAutomationGuru

# Ports to be exposed from the container for JMeter Slaves/Server
# Ports to be exposed from the JMeter Slaves/Server container EXPOSE 1099 50000

# Application to run on starting the container
# Start the container to run the application ENTRYPOINT $JMETER_HOME/bin/jmeter-server \
            -Dserver.rmi.localport=50000 \
            -Dserver_port=1099

docker build -t jmmaster .

docker tag jmmaster dockername/jmmaster
docker push dockername/jmmaster

# Use jmbase base image
FROM qjpdsg/jmbase

MAINTAINER QJP

# Ports to be exposed from the container for JMeter Master
EXPOSE 60000

docker build -t jmslave .

docker tag jmmaster dockername/jmslave
docker push dockername/jmslave

docker run -dit --name slave01 jmserver /bin/bash
docker run -dit --name slave02 jmserver /bin/bash
docker run -dit --name slave03 jmserver /bin/bash

docker inspect --format '{{ .Name }} => {{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' $( docker ps -a -q )

remote_hosts=172.17.0.2:1099,172.17.0.3:1099

docker cp ./jmeter.properties jmmaster:/jmeter/apache-jmeter-5.1.1/bin/

docker exec -it slave10 /bin/bash
jmeter-server

jmeter -n -t mywh.jmx -R172.17.0.2,172.17.0.3