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litmusctl mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für litmusctl in AI-Agent-Workflows.

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

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brew install litmusctl

provider-native install command

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Command-line interface for interacting with LitmusChaos

Befehle und Aliase

  • litmusctl

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

litmusctl is the command-line companion to LitmusChaos, a CNCF-hosted cloud-native chaos engineering platform. It matters less as a standalone tool than as the terminal interface for connecting Chaos Delegates, creating projects, scheduling Chaos Scenarios, and managing LitmusChaos accounts.

Projektgeschichte

LitmusChaos began as Kubernetes-oriented chaos engineering tooling before becoming a CNCF project. The separate litmusctl repository was created on February 15, 2021, after Litmus had already entered CNCF Sandbox, giving operators a Go-based CLI for the agent-plane workflows around Litmus ChaosCenter and Kubernetes clusters.

The litmusctl README documents versioned usage guides spanning early v0.2-era compatibility through later v0.12-v0.23 and 1.x releases, which reflects its role as a compatibility-sensitive operations tool tied to LitmusChaos control-plane versions.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Litmus itself was accepted into CNCF on June 25, 2020 and moved to Incubating on January 11, 2022. That CNCF path gave the surrounding tools, including litmusctl, a place in cloud-native SRE workflows rather than only in vendor-specific chaos demos.

The broader Litmus project advertises adopters and end-user case studies, while litmusctl adoption is mostly implicit: users who run LitmusChaos in Kubernetes clusters need a supported CLI path for delegate connection and account operations.

Wie es verwendet wird

litmusctl is used to connect Chaos Delegates, create projects, schedule Chaos Scenarios, disconnect delegates, and manage multiple LitmusChaos accounts. Its documented requirements include a kubeconfig at ~/.kube/config and kubectl underneath for applying manifests.

For package users, the key operational detail is version compatibility: the README maps litmusctl releases such as 1.19.0 through 1.26.0 to supported Chaos Center version ranges.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For Homebrew and Nix users, litmusctl is a small example of a cloud-native project's operational surface being shipped as a standalone CLI, separate from the heavier Kubernetes control plane it manages.

It also shows the package-manager problem of distributing fast-moving Kubernetes ecosystem CLIs whose usefulness depends on a compatibility matrix rather than only on their own version number.

Zeitleiste

  • 2017: LitmusChaos work began as simple Kubernetes chaos jobs, according to CNCF project history.
  • 2020-06-25: Litmus was accepted into CNCF.
  • 2021-02-15: The litmuschaos/litmusctl GitHub repository was created.
  • 2022-01-11: Litmus moved to CNCF Incubating.
  • 2026-05-20: The litmusctl repository listed release 1.26.0.

Related projects

  • LitmusChaos is the parent chaos engineering platform; ChaosHub provides reusable chaos experiments; kubectl and Kubernetes are required context for delegate installation and cluster operations.

Sicherheitslage

Noch keine Protected-Tool-Abdeckung gefunden

Für litmusctl wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.

Installationsverhalten

  • Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.

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local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
~/.kube/config

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix
~/.kube/config

Executables

Installierte Executables

BefehlArtSichtbarkeitHinweis
litmusctlExecutableindexiertes ExecutableAus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt.

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-08-03
Manager-Version1.27.0
Manager aktualisiert2026-07-26
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Upstreamnicht verfügbar
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Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüsselbrew:litmusctl
Version1.27.0
PaketmanagerHomebrew
Homepagehttps://litmuschaos.io
Repositoryhttps://github.com/litmuschaos/litmusctl
Zuletzt aktualisiert2026-07-26T13:41:02+02:00
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Verwendete Quellen

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • pkgdb category and tag curation