Litmus
Litmus (LitmusChaos) is a cloud-native chaos engineering platform for Kubernetes. Teams inject controlled faults to find weaknesses before they cause outages. We assess it under Chaos Tools for resilience testing.
Blurb
Litmus is a CNCF-hosted, open-source Chaos Engineering platform that helps teams identify infrastructure weaknesses through safe, controlled chaos tests, simple for developers and SREs, built on modern practices, and powered by the community.
Summary
What it is: Kubernetes-native chaos engineering platform. Experiments are defined as custom resources and shared through ChaosHub, a central catalog of reusable fault injections.
When to use: You run workloads on Kubernetes and want to validate resilience with repeatable, controlled fault injection. Good fit for SRE practices and pre-production reliability testing.
When to skip: You are not on Kubernetes, or chaos experiments are premature because basic observability and recovery paths are not yet in place.
Status: CNCF Incubating project (since January 2022), Apache 2.0, actively maintained with a steady monthly release cadence.
Details
| Topic | Notes |
|---|---|
| Model | ChaosExperiment CRs on Kubernetes; ChaosCenter UI orchestrates runs |
| ChaosHub | Central hub of shared, reusable chaos experiments at hub.litmuschaos.io |
| Governance | CNCF Incubating; broad multi-org contributor base |
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