Chaos Mesh 2.7: Chaos Engineering Platform Enhancements

Introduction

Chaos Mesh 2.7, released on August 20, 2024, advances chaos engineering with improved chaos experiments, enhanced observability, better performance, and expanded integration capabilities. This release makes Chaos Mesh more powerful for testing system resilience.

Chaos Experiments

• Network chaos improvements provide better network failure simulation.
• Pod chaos enhancements enable better pod failure simulation.
• IO chaos improvements provide better I/O failure simulation.
• Time chaos enhancements enable time skew simulation.

Observability Enhancements

1. Experiment tracking improvements provide better visibility into chaos experiments.
2. Metrics expansion provides detailed metrics for chaos experiments.
3. Event logging improvements enable better event tracking.
4. Dashboard enhancements provide better visualization of chaos experiments.

Performance Optimizations

• Experiment execution improvements reduce overhead of chaos experiments.
• Resource usage optimizations reduce CPU and memory consumption.
• Scaling improvements enable better handling of multiple experiments.
• Recovery time reductions minimize time to recover from chaos experiments.

Integration Capabilities

• Kubernetes integration improvements provide seamless integration with Kubernetes.
• CI/CD integration enables integration with CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitoring integration provides visibility into chaos experiment impact.
• API improvements enable better programmatic access to Chaos Mesh capabilities.

Getting Started

# Install Chaos Mesh
curl -sSL https://mirrors.chaos-mesh.org/latest/install.sh | bash

Create a NetworkChaos experiment:

apiVersion: chaos-mesh.org/v1alpha1
kind: NetworkChaos
metadata:
  name: network-delay
spec:
  action: delay
  mode: one
  selector:
    namespaces:
      - default
    labelSelectors:
      app: myapp
  delay:
    latency: "10ms"
    correlation: "100"
    jitter: "0ms"
  duration: "30s"
  scheduler:
    cron: "@every 2m"

Summary

Chaos Mesh 2.7 continues to evolve as a leading chaos engineering platform, providing teams with powerful capabilities for testing system resilience.