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Litmus: Chaos Engineering for Kubernetes

by Shriira Press

Litmus (LitmusChaos) is a chaos engineering platform for Kubernetes — it deliberately injects failures into your systems, in a controlled way, to test and improve their resilience. This free book teaches it from the ground up: the resilience problem and what Litmus is, chaos engineering principles (hypothesis, steady state, blast radius), Litmus's architecture (ChaosExperiment, ChaosEngine, ChaosResult, the operator), chaos experiments and the ChaosHub, the ChaosEngine (running experiments against targets), probes and resilience validation, chaos workflows (orchestrating complex scenarios), ChaosCenter (the portal, multi-team, multi-cluster), running chaos safely and in CI/CD, and adopting chaos engineering in practice. Ten focused chapters with clear diagrams that turn resilience from a hope into a tested, measured, continuously-verified property — deliberately injecting controlled failures and validating that your Kubernetes systems survive.

Contents

1. 1Preface
2. 2Chapter 1 — What Litmus Is
3. 3Chapter 2 — Chaos Engineering Principles
4. 4Chapter 3 — Litmus's Architecture
5. 5Chapter 4 — Chaos Experiments and the ChaosHub
6. 6Chapter 5 — The ChaosEngine: Running Experiments
7. 7Chapter 6 — Probes and Resilience Validation
8. 8Chapter 7 — Chaos Workflows
9. 9Chapter 8 — ChaosCenter: The Portal
10. 10Chapter 9 — Running Chaos Safely and in CI/CD
11. 11Chapter 10 — Adopting Chaos Engineering in Practice