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Cause Crash Loop

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Causes a crash loop in a pod
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Cause Crash Loop

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Causes a crash loop in a pod
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Kubernetes pods
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Cause Crash Loop

Causes a crash loop in a pod
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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

ParameterRequiredDescriptionDefault
DurationtrueHow long should the attack run?60s
ContainerfalseName of a container which should be killed. By default all containers are killed.
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Tags
kubernetes
deployment
Homepage
github.com/steadybit/extension-kubernetes
License
MIT
MaintainerSteadybit

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