PowerfulSeal is a chaos engineering tool that injects failures into Kubernetes clusters to identify and fix resiliency issues early.
A powerful testing tool for Kubernetes clusters.
This tool is primarily used by DevOps and SRE teams to perform chaos experiments on Kubernetes clusters, ensuring that applications and services remain resilient under failure conditions. It helps validate cluster robustness by simulating pod failures and verifying service continuity, supporting continuous reliability testing in cloud-native environments.
Users should carefully design YAML policies to avoid unintended disruptions in production environments. It is recommended to run chaos experiments initially in staging or test clusters. Integration with monitoring tools like Prometheus or Datadog enhances observability during failure injection.
Install via pip: pip install powerfulseal
Pull Docker image: docker pull powerfulseal/powerfulseal:3.1.1powerfulseal autonomous --policy-file ./policy.yaml
Runs PowerfulSeal in autonomous mode using the specified YAML policy file to execute chaos experiments.