Chaoskube does not kill pods and cannot target the chaoskube to specific namespaces

[Dorsosiv]

I deployed chaos kube with the following helm commands:

#! /bin/bash
helm repo add chaoskube https://linki.github.io/chaoskube/
helm install chaoskube chaoskube/chaoskube --atomic --namespace=chaoskube --create-namespace \
  -f values.yaml --set namespaces='test-namespace' --set labels='app=test' ;

and the values.yaml is

---
# replicaCount configures the number of replicas to run
replicaCount: 1

# image specifies image location, tag and pullPolicy
image:
  repository: ghcr.io/linki/chaoskube
  pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
  # Overrides the image tag whose default is the chart appVersion.
  tag: ""

# chaoskube is used to configure chaoskube
chaoskube:
  env: {}
  envFromConfigMapRefs: []
    # - 'configmap-a'
  args: 
    ######
    # Example configuration, uncomment and adjust to your needs.
    # Be sure to read: https://github.com/linki/chaoskube#flags
    ######
    # kill a pod every 10 minutes
    interval: "1m"
    # only target pods in the test environment
    #labels: "environment=test"
    # only consider pods with this annotation
    #annotations: "chaos.alpha.kubernetes.io/enabled=true"
    # exclude all DaemonSet pods
    #kinds: "!DaemonSet"
    # exclude all pods in the kube-system namespace
    #namespaces: "!kube-system"
    # don't kill anything on weekends
    #excluded-weekdays: "Sat,Sun"
    # don't kill anything during the night or at lunchtime
    #excluded-times-of-day: "22:00-08:00,11:00-13:00"
    # don't kill anything as a joke or on christmas eve
    #excluded-days-of-year: "Apr1,Dec24"
    # let's make sure we all agree on what the above times mean
    #timezone: "UTC"
    # exclude all pods that haven't been running for at least one hour
    #minimum-age: "1h"
    # terminate pods for real: this disables dry-run mode which is on by default
    #no-dry-run: ""

# serviceAccount can be used to customize the service account which will be crated and used by chaoskube
serviceAccount:
  create: true
  name: ""
  annotations: {}

# podAnnotations can be used to add additional annotations to the pod
podAnnotations: {}

# additionalLabels can be used to add additional labels to the pod
additionalLabels: {}

# podSecurityContext is used to customize the security context of the pod
podSecurityContext:
  runAsNonRoot: true
  runAsUser: 65534
  readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
  capabilities:
    drop: ["ALL"]

# resources can be used to limit pod compute resources (limits/requests)
resources: 
  limits:
    cpu: 100m
    memory: 128Mi
  requests:
    cpu: 10m
    memory: 16Mi

# tolerations can be used to configure tolerations for the pods
tolerations: []

I have a few issues:

• The chaoskube is not terminating the pods at all its just writing in the logs that its going to remove it but its not doing anything.
• Its not working with the values and the set flags. Its trying to remove pods from namespaces that are not in the filter ...

Please help

[linki]

• The chaoskube is not terminating the pods at all its just writing in the logs that its going to remove it but its not doing anything.

That's a safety feature, you also need to set no-dry-run: "" in your values.yaml or via the --set flag, see https://github.com/linki/chaoskube/blob/master/chart/chaoskube/README.md#example-helm-values

• Its not working with the values and the set flags. Its trying to remove pods from namespaces that are not in the filter ...

Please try the following:

helm install ... -f values.yaml --set namespaces=test-namespace,labels=app=test

Also see this comment: helm/helm#3351 (comment)