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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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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
Schedule
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