Tutorial Beginner By Samson Tanimawo, PhD Published Oct 9, 2026 10 min read

Chaos Engineering with LitmusChaos: 30 Minutes

Chaos engineering in 30 minutes: enough to see your first experiment, not yet enough to design a program.

Step 1: Install Litmus

helm install litmus litmuschaos/litmus -n litmus --create-namespace

Wait for pods; access UI via port-forward.

Step 2: Pick experiment

ChaosHub: pod-delete, network-loss, cpu-hog, etc.
Pick pod-delete on a stateless deployment first.

Step 3: Run experiment

Configure: target deployment; scale; chaos duration.

Run; Litmus deletes pods on schedule.

Step 4: Read the result

Probes verify recovery: was the service still serving traffic?

Pass: system handles the chaos.

Fail: investigate; fix; re-run.

Antipatterns

Production chaos on day one. Start in staging.
No probes. Cannot verify outcome.
One-off chaos. Pattern is repeated experiments.

What to do this week

Three moves. (1) Run the tutorial end-to-end on your own laptop / sandbox. (2) Apply the pattern to one production workload. (3) Document the variations you needed; share with the team.