powerfulseal/powerfulseal
A powerful testing tool for Kubernetes clusters. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- 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: 3193
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1027
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1980 stars · 164 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
PowerfulSeal is a chaos engineering tool that injects failures into Kubernetes clusters to expose weaknesses before they cause outages. It executes YAML-defined chaos experiment policies that kill pods or nodes and verify service resiliency through HTTP probes, with metrics exported to Prometheus and Datadog.
Use cases
- inject failures into a kubernetes cluster to test resilience
- run chaos engineering experiments against k8s pods and nodes
- kill random pods and verify my service keeps responding
- write chaos experiment scenarios as yaml policies
- simulate vm failures on openstack, aws, azure, or gcp
- check how my kubernetes app handles node or pod crashes
- collect metrics during fault injection with prometheus or datadog
When to choose
- you run workloads on Kubernetes and want to validate resiliency by injecting real failures
- you want declarative, probabilistic chaos policies (kill pods, sample targets, probe HTTP endpoints) rather than ad-hoc commands
- your infrastructure spans Kubernetes plus OpenStack, AWS, Azure, or GCP and you want one tool to break things across those layers
- you need chaos experiment runs to feed Prometheus or Datadog metrics
When to avoid
- your stack is not Kubernetes or cloud-VM based (e.g., plain docker-compose or bare-metal apps outside its drivers)
- you need a tool with frequent recent development or cutting-edge chaos features, since releases have slowed
- you only want simple kubectl-based fault injection without policy orchestration and probing
- you require a strictly read-only monitoring solution - this tool intentionally disrupts running systems
Facets
cli-tool · maturity maintenance
testing monitoring testing cloud-computing python cli cloud chaos-engineering fault-injection kubernetes resilience-testing sre openstack yaml-policies prometheus-metrics devops containers linux docker
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal · fetched 2026-08-28 · 74d98fe06d40
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| powerfulseal/powerfulseal | main | 23 |
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