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Version: 3.0.0

Chaos Infrastructure

Chaos infrastructure is a service that runs in your target environment and aids the Litmus control plane in accessing and injecting chaos at a cloud-native scale. All the chaos infrastructure services adhere to the principle of least privilege, where the services execute with the minimum number of required permissions. A Chaos Infrastructure can be created under a Chaos Environment.

Note: With the latest release of LitmusChaos 3.0.0 the term Chaos Delegate/Agent has been changed to Chaos Infrastructure

Chaos Environment​

An environment represents where you are installing your Chaos Infrastructure acts as an additional level of abstraction for the same. You categorize each environment as prod or non-prod.

Access Types​

Chaos Infrastructure can be created in two modes:

  • Cluster Wide: This mode of infrastructure installation allows targeting resources across the entire cluster, in all the namespaces, as part of an experiment.
  • Namespace Mode: This mode of infrastructure installation allows targeting resources only in the namespace where the chaos infrastructure is deployed.


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  • There can only be one cluster-wide chaos infrastructure per cluster.
  • There may be multiple namespace-scoped chaos infrastructures per cluster.

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