What problem does it solve?
Chaos engineering skill helps organizations systematically test and improve system resilience by designing and executing controlled failure injections, reducing blind spots, and shortening time-to-recovery through scientific experiments and clear safety controls.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Experiment Design & Safety: Defines hypotheses, steady-state metrics, blast radius controls, rollback triggers, and monitoring requirements before any injection.
- Implementation & Automation: Provides reusable manifests, scripts, and CI/CD workflows for pod deletes, network latency, CPU/memory stress, AZ simulations, and certificate expiry tests.
- Game Days & Learnings: Run structured game days with runbooks, observation templates, and post-mortem reporting to capture learnings and drive improvements.
- Use Case: Plan a staging pod-delete experiment using Litmus with automatic rollback if error rate exceeds thresholds, then capture results and derive remediation tasks.
Quick Start
Use the chaos-engineer skill to design a staged pod-deletion experiment for staging that limits blast radius to 5% and includes automated rollback and monitoring.