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Introduction

You can use this step to continuously kill all (or a given) container in a selected pod.

Use Cases

Simulate failure of container startups and Kubernetes backing off to restart the container

Known limitations

Pods using hostPID=true are currently not supported
Containers without kill binary are currently not supported

Rollback

No rollback necessary.

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Description	Default
Duration	true	How long should the attack run?	60s
Container	false	Name of a container which should be killed. By default all containers are killed.

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Verify that your monitor alerts when a Kubernetes pod is in crash loop.

When one of your containers has problems starting, it may result in a crash loop and, eventually, Kubernetes backing off to restart this container. Verify that your monitoring notices a crash loop and will alert you to take action.

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