## :scroll: Context This epic focuses specifically on adding data seeding functionality to the Component Performance Testing (CPT) tool for Cloud Native GitLab (CNG) test environments. **Data Seeding Objective**: Enable CPT to populate CNG instances with test data necessary for running meaningful performance tests in GitLab repository merge requests. ## :todo: Tasks * [x] Investigate existing data seeding tools * [x] Decide which tool to integrate with CPT * [x] Enable CPT to use the data seeding tool to seed the CNG instance * [x] Document how to use the data seeder with CPT for CNG instance ## :goal: Goal The goal is for CPT to have the capability to seed data in the CNG instance that it creates so that we can run perforamance tests against a seeded CNG GitLab instance. ### **DRI** @vishal.s.patel ## Conclusion * CPT now has the capability to seed data in the CNG environment that CPT spins up * To seed data into the environment, [data-seeder](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/quality/data-seeder) is being used * Need to provide `DATA_SEEDER_FILE_NAME` environment var to run the seed