DevOps Litmus Training Overview
This Litumus training course introduces participants to the principles of Chaos Engineering using Litmus, an open-source chaos testing platform for Kubernetes. Learners gain practical skills to inject, monitor, and mitigate failures in distributed systems, ensuring system resilience and reliability.
Location and Pricing
This course is taught as a private, live online class for teams of 3 or more. All our courses are hands-on, instructor-led, and tailored to fit your group’s goals and needs. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for online corporate training, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Recognize the role of controlled failure injection in system resilience
- Learn the architecture and components of Litmus
- Install and configure Litmus in a Kubernetes environment
- Create and execute chaos experiments with Litmus
- Analyze the impact of chaos experiments on system performance
- Use monitoring tools to observe system behavior during experiments
- Evaluate metrics and logs to identify potential system improvements
- Develop strategies to enhance resilience based on chaos experiments
- Incorporate Chaos Engineering into CI/CD pipelines for proactive failure testing
Prerequisites
All learners should have taken Intro to Docker or Kubernetes or have equivalent knowledge.
Outline
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Introduction to Chaos Engineering
- What is Chaos Engineering?
- Goals and benefits of controlled failure testing.
- Chaos Engineering vs. traditional testing.
Getting Started with Litmus
- Overview of Litmus and its components: ChaosCenter, Chaos Experiments, Chaos Workflows.
- Installation and setup.
Creating and Running Chaos Experiments
- Understanding predefined chaos experiments in Litmus.
- Pod deletions.
- Resource exhaustion.
- Disk and I/O stress.
- Network disruptions.
Observing and Analyzing System Behavior
- Integrating monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana with Litmus.
- Analyzing experiment outcomes via ChaosCenter.
Automating Chaos with Litmus Workflows
- Creating workflows to automate chaos experiments.
- Integrating Litmus workflows into CI/CD pipelines.
Best Practices and Advanced Features
- Best practices for implementing Litmus in production environments.
- Advanced features: chaos scheduling, custom experiment design, and GitOps integration.
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Introduction to Litmus training attendees receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
Attendees will not need to install any software on their computers for this class. The class will be conducted in a remote environment that Accelebrate will provide; students will only need a local computer with a web browser and a stable Internet connection. Any recent version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome will work well.
