Memory Hog Scenarios using Krkn
To enable this plugin add the pointer to the scenario input file scenarios/kube/memory-hog.yml as described in the
Usage section.
memory-hog options
In addition to the common hog scenario options, you can specify the below options in your scenario configuration to specificy the amount of memory to hog on a certain worker node
| Option | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
memory-vm-bytes | string | the amount of memory that the scenario will try to hog.The size can be specified as % of free space on the file system or in units of Bytes, KBytes, MBytes and GBytes using the suffix b, k, m or g |
Usage
To enable hog scenarios edit the kraken config file, go to the section kraken -> chaos_scenarios of the yaml structure
and add a new element to the list named hog_scenarios then add the desired scenario
pointing to the hog.yaml file.
kraken:
...
chaos_scenarios:
- hog_scenarios:
- scenarios/kube/memory-hog.yml