Litmus 2.14: Chaos Engineering Evolution

Introduction

Litmus 2.14, released on October 28, 2024, advances chaos engineering with improved chaos experiments, enhanced workflow capabilities, better performance, and expanded integration options. This release makes Litmus more powerful for comprehensive chaos testing.

Chaos Experiments

• Experiment library expansion provides more pre-built chaos experiments.
• Custom experiment support enables creation of custom chaos experiments.
• Experiment scheduling improvements enable better experiment scheduling.
• Multi-cluster experiments enable chaos testing across multiple clusters.

Workflow Capabilities

1. Workflow orchestration improvements enable better chaos workflow management.
2. Parallel execution support enables running multiple experiments in parallel.
3. Conditional execution enables conditional experiment execution.
4. Recovery workflows enable automatic recovery from 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 Options

• 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 Litmus capabilities.

Getting Started

# Install Litmus
kubectl apply -f https://litmuschaos.github.io/litmus/2.14.0/litmus-2.14.0.yaml

Summary

Litmus 2.14 continues to evolve as a leading chaos engineering platform, providing teams with powerful capabilities for comprehensive chaos testing.