1. A method of configuring a computing system carried out by one or more computing devices, the method comprising: providing a user interface comprising selectable actual workload data and selectable synthetic test workload data; selecting, based on a user selection received via the user interface of at least one of the selectable actual workload data and the selectable synthetic test workload data, a workload for execution on a cluster of nodes of the computing system, the workload being selected from a plurality of available workloads including an actual workload and a synthetic test workload, the actual workload comprising a code module stored in memory accessible by the one or more computing devices; and configuring the cluster of nodes of the computing system to execute the selected workload such that processing of the selected workload is distributed across the cluster of nodes.