Version: 2.1.4

Simulate Host Faults

This document introduces how to simulate host shutdown faults using Chaosd.

View the help information of host shutdown experiments

Before creating a fault experiment, you can run the following command to view the help information of host shutdown experiments:

  1. chaosd attack host shutdown -h

The output is as follows:

  1. shutdowns system, this action will trigger shutdown of the host machine
  3. Usage:
  4.   chaosd attack host shutdown [flags]
  6. Flags:
  7.   -h, --help   help for shutdown
  9. Global Flags:
  10.       --log-level string   the log level of chaosd, the value can be 'debug', 'info', 'warn' and 'error'

Create a host shutdown experiment

To create a host shutdown experiment, run the following command:

  1. chaosd attack host shutdown

The example output is as follows:

  1. chaosd attack host shutdown
  2. Shutdown successfully, uid: 4bc9b74a-5fe2-4038-b4f3-09ae95b57694

After executing this command, your host will shut down after all processes are closed.