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Introduction to Litmus

This Litumus training course introduces participants to the principles of Chaos Engineering using Litmus, an open-source chaos testing platform for Kubernetes. Learners gain practical skills to...

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Course Code WA3634
Duration 1 day
Available Formats Classroom

This Litumus training course introduces participants to the principles of Chaos Engineering using Litmus, an open-source chaos testing platform for Kubernetes. Learners gain practical skills to inject, monitor, and mitigate failures in distributed systems, ensuring system resilience and reliability.

Skills Gained

  • Recognize the role of controlled failure injection in system resilience
  • Learn the architecture and components of Litmus
  • Install and configure Litmus in a Kubernetes environment
  • Create and execute chaos experiments with Litmus
  • Analyze the impact of chaos experiments on system performance
  • Use monitoring tools to observe system behavior during experiments
  • Evaluate metrics and logs to identify potential system improvements
  • Develop strategies to enhance resilience based on chaos experiments
  • Incorporate Chaos Engineering into CI/CD pipelines for proactive failure testing

Prerequisites

All learners should have taken Intro to Docker or Kubernetes or have equivalent knowledge.

Course Details

Introduction to Chaos Engineering

  • What is Chaos Engineering?
  • Goals and benefits of controlled failure testing.
  • Chaos Engineering vs. traditional testing.

Getting Started with Litmus

  • Overview of Litmus and its components: ChaosCenter, Chaos Experiments, Chaos Workflows.
  • Installation and setup.

Creating and Running Chaos Experiments

  • Understanding predefined chaos experiments in Litmus.
  • Pod deletions.
  • Resource exhaustion.
  • Disk and I/O stress.
  • Network disruptions.

Observing and Analyzing System Behavior

  • Integrating monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana with Litmus.
  • Analyzing experiment outcomes via ChaosCenter.

Automating Chaos with Litmus Workflows

  • Creating workflows to automate chaos experiments.
  • Integrating Litmus workflows into CI/CD pipelines.

Best Practices and Advanced Features

  • Best practices for implementing Litmus in production environments.
  • Advanced features: chaos scheduling, custom experiment design, and GitOps integration.

Conclusion