Terminating Application Instances
In this lesson, we will define terminate-pod.yaml and run it to destroy instances. We will also inspect the outcome.
We'll cover the following...
Inspecting the definition of terminate-pod.yaml
We’re finally there. We can finally create some chaos. We are about to destroy stuff.
Let’s take a look at the first definition that we are going to use. It is located in the chaos directory, in the file terminate-pod.yaml.
The output is as follows.
version: 1.0.0
title: What happens if we terminate a Pod?
description: If a Pod is terminated, a new one should be created in its places.
tags:
- k8s
- pod
method:
- type: action
name: terminate-pod
provider:
type: python
module: chaosk8s.pod.actions
func: terminate_pods
arguments:
label_selector: app=go-demo-8
rand: true
ns: go-demo-8
What do we have there? We have version, title, description, and tags. They’re all informative. They do not influence how an experiment is executed. They just provide additional information to whoever would like to know what that experiment is about.
title
The title, for example, says what happens if we terminate a Pod?. That’s a valid question.
description
The description is a statement that if a pod is terminated, a new one should be created in its ...