Gamified chaos engineering tool for Kubernetes. It is like Space Invaders but the aliens are pods or worker nodes.

Table of Contents

1. Description
2. New Version
3. Special Input Keys and features
4. Prometheus metrics and Grafana
5. Installation
6. Notes for large clusters
7. Configuration

Description

Through KubeInvaders you can stress a Kubernetes cluster in a fun way and check how it is resilient.

New Version

KubeInvaders is now fully open-source. However, it is still possibile to use the legacy version made with Defold.

Installation

Install to Kubernetes with Helm (v3+)

helm repo add kubeinvaders https://lucky-sideburn.github.io/helm-charts/

kubectl create namespace kubeinvaders

helm install kubeinvaders --set-string target_namespace="namespace1\,namespace2" \
-n kubeinvaders kubeinvaders/kubeinvaders --set ingress.hostName=kubeinvaders.io --set image.tag=v1.4

Install legacy version

helm install kubeinvaders --set-string target_namespace="namespace1\,namespace2" \
-n kubeinvaders kubeinvaders/kubeinvaders --set ingress.hostName=kubeinvaders.io --set image.tag=legacy

Known problems

• It seems that KubeInvaders does not work with EKS because of problems with ServiceAccount. Work in progress!

Hands-on Tutorial

To experience KubeInvaders in action, try it out in this free O'Reilly Katacoda scenario, KubeInvaders.

Metrics

KubeInvaders exposes metrics for Prometheus through the standard endpoint /metrics

This is an example of Prometheus configuration

scrape_configs:
- job_name: kubeinvaders
  static_configs:
  - targets:
    - kubeinvaders.kubeinvaders.svc.cluster.local:8080

Example of metrics

Metric	Description
chaos_jobs_node_count{node=workernode01}	Total number of chaos jobs executed per node
chaos_node_jobs_total	Total number of chaos jobs executed against all worker nodes
deleted_pods_total 16	Total number of deleted pods
deleted_namespace_pods_count{namespace=myawesomenamespace}	Total number of deleted pods per namespace

Security Notes

In order to restrict the access to the Kubeinvaders endpoint add this annotation into the ingress.

nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/whitelist-source-range: <your_ip>/32