chaostoolkit/chaostoolkit
Chaos Engineering Toolkit & Orchestration for Developers observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
86/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 64
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3265
- days_rel: 25
- days_push: 24
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
2020 stars · 204 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
The Chaos Toolkit (ctk) is a Python-based CLI for declaring and running Chaos Engineering experiments as JSON/YAML files. It is extensible via plugins to target cloud environments, datacenters, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
Use cases
- run chaos engineering experiments against my infrastructure
- inject failures into a kubernetes cluster to test resiliency
- define steady-state hypothesis checks for my service
- embed chaos experiments in a CI/CD pipeline
- write chaos experiments as code in JSON or YAML
- verify my system recovers from turbulence with rollbacks
- test reliability of cloud applications by breaking things on purpose
When to choose
- you want declarative, version-controlled chaos experiments runnable from a CLI
- you need to automate fault injection across cloud, datacenter, or CI/CD environments
- you want an extensible, plugin-driven chaos engineering tool with no vendor lock-in
When to avoid
- you need a GUI dashboard for continuous chaos orchestration
- you want a fully managed chaos SaaS without writing experiment files
- your target platform has no existing chaostoolkit extension and you cannot write one
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
cli testing workflow-automation developer-tools developer-tools cloud-computing python cli cross-platform windows chaos-engineering resiliency reliability sre fault-injection steady-state-hypothesis ci-cd devops automation linux macos
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/chaostoolkit/chaostoolkit · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5343968aac23
- homepage: https://chaostoolkit.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 87b93c05cac3
- site_page: https://chaostoolkit.org/reference/usage/install · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0b5fa3ee3611
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/chaostoolkit/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9c60de6fda83
- site_page: https://chaostoolkit.org/reference/tutorials/tolerance · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9c8fc4a74ec9
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| chaostoolkit/chaostoolkit | main | 86 |
For agents
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