PodChaos Experiment

PodChaos allows you to simulate pod faults or specific container issue, specifically pod failure, pod kill and container kill. pod failure can be used to simulate a situation where a pod is down. In this case, the pod is unavailable for a long time.

• Pod Kill action kills the specified pod (ReplicaSet or something similar might be needed to ensure the pod will be restarted).

• Container Kill action kills the specified container in the target pods.

Below is a sample configuration file:

For a detailed description of each field in the configuration template, see Fields description.

Below is a sample pod-kill configuration file:

For a detailed description of each field in the configuration template, see .

For a detailed description of each field in the configuration template, see Fields description.

• action defines the specific chaos action for the Pod. In this case, it is a Pod failure.
• mode defines the mode to run chaos action. Supported mode: one / all / fixed / / random-max-percent.
• selector specifies the target pods for chaos injections. For more details, see .
• containerName defines the target container name, it is needed by container kill action.
• gracePeriod defines the duration in seconds before the pod should be deleted. It is used in pod-kill action, and its value must be non-negative integer. The default value is zero that indicates delete immediately.
• duration defines the duration for each chaos experiment. The default value is 30s, which indicates that pod failure will last for 30 seconds.