Run Chaos Experiment
Skill Verified ActiveDesign and execute chaos engineering experiments using Litmus or Chaos Mesh. Test system resilience through controlled fault injection, validate hypothesis-driven tests, and improve failure recovery. Use before major product launches, after architecture changes to validate resilience, during GameDays or disaster recovery drills, to validate assumptions about failure modes, or as part of an SRE maturity program.
To provide a structured, repeatable, and safe process for conducting chaos engineering experiments, thereby improving system resilience and validating failure recovery strategies.
Features
- Design and execute chaos engineering experiments
- Test system resilience via fault injection
- Validate hypothesis-driven tests
- Improve failure recovery
- Support for Litmus and Chaos Mesh
Use Cases
- Before major product launches to test stability
- After architecture changes to validate resilience
- During GameDays or disaster recovery drills
- To validate assumptions about failure modes
Non-Goals
- Performing general Kubernetes administration beyond tool installation and experiment execution
- Automated incident response without human oversight
- Continuous chaos engineering without scheduled execution or defined triggers
Prerequisites
- Kubernetes cluster
- kubectl and Helm installed
- Necessary RBAC permissions for Chaos Mesh/Litmus installation and experiment execution
Scope
- info:Dry-run previewWhile not explicitly offering a `--dry-run` flag for the entire skill, the SKILL.md emphasizes staging environments and defines rollback plans and abort conditions, which serve a similar purpose of previewing and mitigating risk.
Installation
/plugin install agent-almanac@pjt222-agent-almanacQuality Score
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