**Please note: Most of the content in this directory is deprecated. Please refer to the `helm` directory for installing the latest version of Theodolite.**
This directory contains the Theodolite framework for executing scalability
benchmarks in a Kubernetes cluster. As Theodolite aims for executing benchmarks
in realistic execution environments, some third-party components are [required](#installation).
After everything is installed and configured, you can move on the [execution of
benchmarks](#execution).
*Note: The currently released version of Theodolite only allows running Kafka Streams benchmarks. With the upcoming release `0.5`, we plan to support arbitrary stream processing engines, in particular, our already available implementations for Apache Flink. To already run them now, please contact us.*
## Installation
For executing benchmarks, access to a Kubernetes cluster is required. If you already run other applications inside your
