Pod faults

Container kill

Container kill is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that causes container failure on specific or random replicas of an application resource.

Disk fill is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that applies disk stress by filling the pod's ephemeral storage on a node. This fault evicts the application pod if its capacity exceeds the pod's ephemeral storage limit.

Pod API block

Pod API block is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that blocks the API requests through path filtering. This is achieved by starting the proxy server and redirecting the traffic through the proxy server.

Pod API latency

Pod API latency is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that injects api request and response latency by starting proxy server and redirecting the traffic through it.

Pod API modify body

Pod API modify body is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that modifies the api request and response body by replacing any portions that match a specified regular expression with a provided value. This is achieved by starting the proxy server and redirecting the traffic through the proxy server.

Pod API modify header

Pod API modify header is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that overrides the header values of API requests and responses with the user-provided values for the given keys. This is achieved by starting the proxy server and redirecting the traffic through the proxy server.

Pod API status code

Pod API status code is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that change the API response status code and optionally api response body through path filtering. This is achieved by starting the proxy server and redirecting the traffic through the proxy server.

Pod autoscaler

Pod autoscaler is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that determines whether nodes can accomodate multiple replicas of a given application pod. This fault examines the node auto-scaling feature by determining whether the pods were successfully rescheduled within a specified time frame if the existing nodes are running at the specified limits.

Pod CPU hog exec

Pod CPU hog exec is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that consumes excess CPU resources of the application container. This fault applies stress on the target pods by simulating a lack of CPU for processes running on the Kubernetes application. This degrades the performance of the application.

Pod CPU hog

Pod CPU hog is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that excessively consumes CPU resources, resulting in a significant increase in the CPU resource usage of a pod. This fault applies stress on the target pods by smimulating lack of CPU for processes running on the Kubernetes application. This degrades the performance of the application.

Pod delete

Pod delete is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that causes specific (or random) replicas of an application resource to fail forcibly (or gracefully).

Pod DNS error

Pod DNS error is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that injects chaos to disrupt DNS resolution in pods. It removes access to services by blocking the DNS resolution of host names or domains.

Pod DNS Spoof

Pod DNS spoof is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that injects chaos into pods to mimic DNS resolution. This fault resolves DNS target host names or domains to other IPs as specified in the SPOOF_MAP environment variable in the chaos engine configuration.

Pod HTTP latency

Pod HTTP latency is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that injects HTTP response latency by starting the proxy server and redirecting the traffic through it. This fault:

Pod HTTP modify body

Pod HTTP modify body is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that injects chaos on the service whose port is provided using the TARGETSERVICEPORT environment variable. This is achieved by starting the proxy server and redirecting the traffic through the proxy server. This fault can be used to overwrite the HTTP response body by providing the new body value as RESPONSE_BODY.

Pod HTTP modify header

Pod HTTP modify header is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that injects chaos on the service whose port is provided using the TARGETSERVICEPORT environment variable. This is done by starting the proxy server and redirecting the traffic through the proxy server. This fault modifies headers of the requests and responses of the service.

Pod HTTP reset peer

Pod HTTP reset peer is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that injects chaos on the service whose port is specified using the TARGETSERVICEPORT environment variable. This fault:

Pod HTTP status code

Pod HTTP status code is a Kubernetes pod-level fault that injects chaos inside the pod by modifying the status code of the response from the application server to the desired status code provided by the user. This is achieved by starting the proxy server and redirecting the traffic through the proxy server.

Pod IO attribute override

Pod IO attribute override modifies the properties of files located within the mounted volume of the pod.

Pod IO error

The pod IO error simulates an error that can occur during system calls of the files located within the mounted volume of the pod.

Pod IO latency

Pod IO latency simulates slow I/O operations by introducing delays in system calls of the files located within the mounted volume of the pod. This fault is used for testing the resilience, performance, and scalability of the pod.

Pod IO stress

Pod I/O stress is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that causes I/O stress on the application pod by increasing the number of input and output requests. Applying stress on the disk with continuous and heavy I/O degrades the reads and writes with respect to the microservices. Scratch space consumed on a node may lead to lack of memory for new containers to be scheduled. All these aspects increase resilience to stress.

Pod memory hog exec

Pod memory hog exec is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that consumes excessive memory resources on the application container. Since this fault stresses the target container, the primary process within the container may consume the available system memory on the node.

Pod memory hog

Pod memory hog is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that consumes excessive memory resources on the application container. Since this fault stresses the target container, the primary process within the container may consume the available system memory on the node.

Pod network corruption

Pod network corruption is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that injects corrupted packets of data into the specified container. This is achieved by starting a traffic control (tc) process with netem rules to add egress packet corruption.

Pod network duplication

Pod network duplication is a Kubernetes pod-level chaos fault that injects chaos to disrupt the network connectivity to Kubernetes pods. This fault injects chaos on the specific container by starting a traffic control (tc) process with netem rules to add egress delays.

Common pod fault tunables