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Canonical Chaos Engineering Platform vs chaosd

Both stand on chaos engineering platforms. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Canonical Chaos Engineering Platform

Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb

Teams focused on Kubernetes chaos experiments should consider the platform for its open source model and documented recovery checks. Teams needing charmed VM cloud testing should look elsewhere for those capabilities.

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chaosd

Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted

chaosd covers several physical-machine fault types and offers both command-line and service modes. Check its Linux requirements, deployment prerequisites and privilege needs before using it.

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The facts

Canonical Chaos Engineering Platformchaosd
Free planYesYes
Open sourceNot publishedNot published
Runs onLinux, Self-hosted, WebAPI, Linux, Self-hosted
Lowest paid planNot publishedFree or on request
Plans publishedNone1
MakerNot publishedNot published
Websitecanonical-chaos-engineering.readthedocs-hosted.comgithub.com
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Canonical Chaos Engineering Platform: what it does well

  • Free and open source, with community contributions welcomed.
  • Tutorial demonstrates a pod deletion and recovery probe.
  • Supports Kubernetes chaos testing.
  • Experiment scheduling and blast-radius controls are listed.
  • Documentation describes TLS for internal and external connections.

What to know first

  • The current scope excludes charmed VM cloud chaos testing.
  • Charmed Litmus currently wraps only the control plane.
  • A documented upstream bug leaves control-plane to MongoDB traffic unencrypted.
  • A forgotten changed admin password may require manually deleting database tables or redeploying MongoDB to reset.

chaosd: what it does well

  • Free plan and Apache-2.0 license
  • Supports process, network, disk and host faults
  • Runs as a CLI or HTTP-controlled service
  • Experiments can be recovered by UID

What to know first

  • Documented binary is a Linux amd64 tarball
  • Requires glibc 2.17 or later
  • Network experiments require sudo or root privileges
  • No Kubernetes support or cloud fault injection

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