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Version: 2.4.0

ChaosCenter Cluster Scope Installation

Prerequisites#

Before deploying LitmusChaos, make sure the following items are there

  • Kubernetes 1.17 or later

  • A Persistent volume of 20GB

    note

    Recommend to have a Persistent volume(PV) of 20GB, You can start with 1GB for test purposes as well. This PV is used as persistent storage to store the chaos config and chaos-metrics in the Portal. By default, litmus install would use the default storage class to allocate the PV. Provide this value

  • Helm3 or kubectl

Installation#

Installation of Litmus can be done using either of the below methods

Install Litmus using Helm#

The helm chart will install all the required service account configuration and ChaosCenter.

The following steps will help you install Litmus ChaosCenter via helm.

Step-1: Add the litmus helm repository#

helm repo add litmuschaos https://litmuschaos.github.io/litmus-helm/helm repo list

Step-2: Create the namespace on which you want to install Litmus ChaosCenter#

  • The chaoscenter components can be placed in any namespace, though it is typically placed in "litmus".
kubectl create ns litmus

Step-3: Install Litmus ChaosCenter#

helm install chaos litmuschaos/litmus --namespace=litmus
Expected Output
NAME: chaosLAST DEPLOYED: Wed Dec 15 20:18:37 2021NAMESPACE: litmusSTATUS: deployedREVISION: 1TEST SUITE: NoneNOTES:Thank you for installing litmus 😀
Your release is named chaos and it's installed to namespace: litmus.
Visit https://docs.litmuschaos.io to find more info.

Note: Litmus uses Kubernetes CRDs to define chaos intent. Helm3 handles CRDs better than Helm2. Before you start running a chaos experiment, verify if Litmus is installed correctly.

Install Litmus using kubectl #

Install Litmus ChaosCenter#

Applying the manifest file will install all the required service account configuration and ChaosCenter.

kubectl apply -f https://litmuschaos.github.io/litmus/2.4.0/litmus-2.4.0.yaml

If you are installing Litmus in any other namespace apart from litmus namespace, make sure to change the same in the manifest too https://litmuschaos.github.io/litmus/2.4.0/litmus-2.4.0.yaml.

Verify your installation#

Verify if the frontend, server, and database pods are running#

  • Check the pods in the namespace where you installed Litmus:

    kubectl get pods -n litmus
    Expected Output
    NAME                                    READY   STATUS  RESTARTS  AGElitmusportal-frontend-97c8bf86b-mx89w   1/1     Running 2         6m24slitmusportal-server-5cfbfc88cc-m6c5j    2/2     Running 2         6m19smongo-0                                 1/1     Running 0         6m16s

  • Check the services running in the namespace where you installed Litmus:

    kubectl get svc -n litmus
    Expected Output
    NAME                            TYPE        CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S)                       AGElitmusportal-frontend-service   NodePort    10.100.105.154  <none>      9091:30229/TCP                7m14slitmusportal-server-service     NodePort    10.100.150.175  <none>      9002:30479/TCP,9003:31949/TCP 7m8smongo-service                   ClusterIP   10.100.226.179  <none>      27017/TCP                     7m6s

Verify Successful Registration of the Self Agent post Account Configuration#

Once the project is created, the cluster is automatically registered as a chaos target via installation of ChaosAgents. This is represented as Self-Agent in ChaosCenter.

kubectl get pods -n litmus
NAME                                     READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGEchaos-exporter-547b59d887-4dm58          1/1     Running   0          5m27schaos-operator-ce-84ddc8f5d7-l8c6d       1/1     Running   0          5m27sevent-tracker-5bc478cbd7-xlflb           1/1     Running   0          5m28slitmusportal-frontend-97c8bf86b-mx89w    1/1     Running   0          15mlitmusportal-server-5cfbfc88cc-m6c5j     2/2     Running   1          15mmongo-0                                  1/1     Running   0          15msubscriber-958948965-qbx29               1/1     Running   0          5m30sworkflow-controller-78fc7b6c6-w82m7      1/1     Running   0          5m32s

Resource Requirements of Control-plane components#

The Resource requests provided here have been estimated using data gathered manually through different methods -

  • Using command kubectl top
  • Recommendations from Vertical-Pod-Autoscaler
  • Recommendations by a great utility Goldilocks.

These resources are getting monitored continuously and the information below will be updated as the metrics changes.

note

The metrics given below shows resources consumed when ChaosCenter is used at medium scale.The resources may need to be increased when used at higher scale.

PodContainerCPUMemory
litmusportal-frontendlitmusportal-frontend25m300M
litmusportal-serverauth-server25m150M
litmusportal-servergraphql-server25m350M
mongodbmongodb25m350M

Resources#

Learn more#