Go-Chaos

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Chaos engineering as code.

Go-chaos is an app that lets you inject chaos in your infrastructure with declarative code and run chaos experiments in your cloud infrastructure. Although go-chaos works mainly with the server-shutdown perturbation model, it does have some extra capabilities such as data deletion (objects and data) and increase or decrease of resources.

If you want to perform chaos experiments as code in your infrastructure, but do not have monitoring, IaC, automated CI/CD or an easy way to recover, then sorry, CHAOS ENGINEERING IS NOT FOR YOU

Complete documentation and examples can be found at

go-chaos documentation

Usage

go-chaos read chaos experiments in HCL format.

Create a directory in you computer

mkdir chaosExperiment && cd chaosExperiment

Create a new file with the following content and name it config.hcl

app = "TestingApp"
description = "this is a test" 
    
job "aws" "ec2" {
    region = "us-east-1"
    config "chaos" {
        tag = "Name:test"
        chaos = "terminate"
        count = 5
    }
}

Once the file saved, execute the file with command go-chaos d config.hcl

Several jobs are possible with go-chaos, jobs will execute from top to bottom.

job "aws" "ec2" {
    region = "us-east-1"
    config "chaos" {
        tag = "Name:first"
        chaos = "terminate"
        count = 5
    }
}

job "aws" "s3" {
    region = "us-east-1"
    config "chaos" {
        tag = "PREFIX:second"
        chaos = "terminate"
        count = 30
    }
}

Limit blast radius

go-chaos limits itself with the use of config options on each job:

• region: will not destroy or delete anything on other cloud regions.
• namespace: limits the blast radius to a single namespace, for K8s only.
• project: Select a single project, for gcp only.
• tag: single tag, that will find the specified resources and kill those.
• count: Option to limit the number of resources that go-chaos will destroy.

What it can do?

go-chaos has a number of predifined chaos actions on several resources (AWS and K8s)

AWS

• Compute Autoscaling

terminate
update
addto

• Compute EC2:

terminate
reboot
stop

• Compute Lambda

terminate
stop

• Storage S3:

terminate
delete_content

DigitalOcean

• Droplets:

terminate
stop
poweroff
reboot

• load_balancer

removeDroplets
removeRules

GCP

• vms:

terminate
stop
reset

K8s

• Pods:

terminate
terminateAll

• Deployments:

terminate
update

• DaemonSet:

terminate

go-chaos can also execute a single script at the end of the file

script {
    executor   = "bash"
    source     = "destroy.sh"
}

go-chaos can send notifications based on gmail with a GMAIL_APP_TOKEN environment variable.

LICENSE

GNU GPLv2

Roadmap and news

go-chaos has been in development for quite sometime, there are some important modifications over the first versions:

• uses HCL instead of JSON, YAML or TOML.
• Go 1.18.5, instead of 1.14 or 1.16.
• aws-sdk-go-v2 instead of v1.
• Entirely new code base.
• Same "interface" to all functions.
• Remove conditions in favor of a simple hashmap for events.

Rules:

• For any new functionality or bug fix create a PR to main branch.
• Only tags are made for production.
• Working and compiling code over perfect code. (we are not making an operating system or flying a plane here)
• No random function (is difficult to manage randomness for small sets).
• No Windows version (it will require some serious rewriting).