Post by LitmusChaos maintainers

Cloud native adoption continues to increase, and it is not a surprise that new challenges are arising that are associated with the scale. The modern DevOps ecosystem driven by cloud native technologies is helping the software changes to ship faster than ever. The speed of shipping cannot become an excuse for the downgrade in the reliability of the deployed service. It is increasingly becoming common to use well-knit chaos experiments in the CD pipelines to ensure the reliability is tested before and after the deployments. Apart from the well-known use case of chaos testing by SREs, the LitmusChaos project has witnessed growth in its usage by the QA teams. The project architecture revolves around simplicity, being highly declarative and API driven. This is validated in the last few quarters for this new QA use case as well and we are seeing some large enterprise users running thousands of chaos experiments in their QA environment every week. 

Here is a list of important capabilities that were built out and project updates since the last KubeCon in Valencia! 

Feature Updates

New adopters

Many great individuals have been added to the Litmus project, but thanks to those teams at the following companies that came forward to declare their usage of Litmus. 

iFood

FIS

Adidas

Cyren

ABInbev

CI&T

HCL

For more details on the full list of adopters and their stories – see our Adopters list.

New contributors and maintainers

Heightened awareness around cloud-native chaos engineering and the need for a holistic approach towards the practice have resulted in organizations investing time and personnel for it. This has naturally benefited the Litmus project, and along with its increased adoption, brought about a welcome growth in contributor interest. Some important community contributions over the past couple of quarters include: 

The contributions were made by developers from a wide range of organizations, including Orange, RedHat, Microsoft, Oracle, Klanik, T-Mobile, VoerEir AB, FIS, Lowes, Wipro, JFrog, HCL. 

Increased community traction calls for better governance and maintenance effort, and the Litmus project has now onboarded 6 newer maintainers, overlooking these specific areas: 

Announcing Litmus 3.0 Beta

LitmusChaos maintainers have announced the plan for development of the next major release – Litmus 3.0. The project team is now encouraging reviews, contributions and feedback around this Beta release. The Litmus 3.0 will have a new UI console that is completely renewed and improved UX for creating new experiments more intuitively. Just like the previous major version Litmus 2.0, this version will continue as Beta for about 6 months to gather feedback from the community before becoming the preferred choice for usage. The release details are available here.

Screenshot showing Chaos Faults window on ChaosCenter

Other notable upcoming features that will be launched as part the 3.0 beta programme include: 

To get quick access to Litmus, signup to the hosted Litmus cloud at litmuschaos.cloud or use the getting-started guide.

Sincerely,

LitmusChaos Team.