The Chaos Toolkit is at its heart a simple CLI that introduces the chaos command.
The Default Chaos Commands
If you execute the chaos --help command once you’ve installed the Chaos Toolkit (see Chapter 4), you will see a list of the sub-commands that are supported:
(chaostk) $ chaos --help
Usage: chaos [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Options:
--version Show the version and exit.
--verbose Display debug level traces.
--no-version-check Do not search for an updated version of the
chaostoolkit.
--change-dir TEXT Change directory before running experiment.
--no-log-file Disable logging to file entirely.
--log-file TEXT File path where to write the command's log. [default:
chaostoolkit.log]
--settings TEXT Path to the settings file. [default:
/Users/russellmiles/.chaostoolkit/settings.yaml]
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
discover Discover capabilities and experiments.
info Display information about the Chaos Toolkit environment.
init Initialize a new experiment from discovered capabilities.
run Run the experiment loaded from SOURCE, either a local file or a...
validate Validate the experiment at PATH.
This is the default set of sub-commands; you might see more than are listed here, especially if you’ve installed the reporting plug-in (see “Creating and Sharing Human-Readable Chaos Experiment Reports”). They represent a workflow that goes a little beyond the chaos run command you’ve used throughout this book (see Figure A-1).
Figure ...
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