# linki/chaoskube

chaoskube periodically kills random pods in your Kubernetes cluster.

Repository: https://github.com/linki/chaoskube
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/chaoskube
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: kubernetes, chaos, chaos-monkey, chaos-engineering
Last push: 2026-08-01T07:02:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 91/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 81, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3590, "days_push": 32, "days_rel": 49, "gap_med": 44.5, "n_releases_24m": 11}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1934, forks 126 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:56.442782+00:00)

## What it is
chaoskube is a Go CLI tool that periodically terminates random pods in a Kubernetes cluster to test resilience. It supports filtering targets by namespace, labels, annotations, and age, plus quiet periods, and ships with a Helm chart.

## Use cases
- kill random pods in kubernetes to test resilience
- chaos engineering for kubernetes clusters
- simulate pod failures to verify self-healing
- test how services recover from pod termination
- run a chaos monkey on my k8s cluster
- validate cluster behavior under arbitrary pod failures

## When to choose
- you run workloads on Kubernetes and want simple scheduled pod terminations
- you want a lightweight chaos tool with label/namespace filtering and dry-run mode
- you prefer Helm-based deployment of a chaos monkey

## When to avoid
- you need network fault injection, CPU/memory stress, or node-level chaos
- you need a full chaos engineering platform with experiments and metrics
- your workloads are not on Kubernetes

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, deployment, testing
- domain: cloud-computing
- platform: go, cli
- tags: chaos-engineering, chaos-monkey, kubernetes, pod-failure-testing, resilience-testing, helm-chart, devops, containers, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- linki/chaoskube (main) score 91

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:56.442782+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:08:29.638422+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/linki/chaoskube (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:56.442782+00:00, sha 3d6f3e168956)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.