# Install chaoskube with Homebrew

Periodically kills random pods in your Kubernetes cluster. Version 0.39.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:chaoskube
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install chaoskube
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:chaoskube
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.39.1
- **Source summary:** Periodically kills random pods in your Kubernetes cluster
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/linki/chaoskube>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/linki/chaoskube>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27T19:20:59+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- chaoskube (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.39.1
## Project history and usage

chaoskube is a Kubernetes chaos-engineering tool that periodically terminates random pods so teams can test how workloads behave under pod failure.

### Project history

The linki/chaoskube repository was created in 2016. Its README frames the tool around a narrow chaos-engineering job: connect to a Kubernetes cluster, select eligible pods, and terminate one at intervals, with dry-run mode enabled by default.

### Adoption history

Distribution centered on Kubernetes-native deployment as well as package-manager installs. The README documents Helm installation through a chaoskube chart and raw Kubernetes manifests, while the supplied facts show Homebrew formula distribution.

### How it is used

Users run chaoskube locally against their current kubeconfig or deploy it inside a cluster. The README documents filters for namespaces, labels, annotations, owner kinds, pod names, minimum age, quiet times, dry-run mode, metrics, Slack notification, and interval controls.

### Why package nerds care

chaoskube is package-nerd interesting because it packages a chaos-monkey pattern into one Go binary plus Kubernetes deployment artifacts: a small CLI that also behaves like a cluster workload and is installable through Homebrew and Helm.

### Timeline

- 2016: Public GitHub repository created for linki/chaoskube.
- 2016: Early v0.1.0 tag established the chaoskube release line.
- 2018: README examples show v0.21.0-era usage against Kubernetes 1.10 clusters.
- 2026: Repository metadata shows continued maintenance, with v0.39.0 among recent tags.

### Related projects

- The README compares chaoskube with kube-monkey, PowerfulSeal, fabric8 chaos monkey, k8aos, pod-reaper, kubernetes-pod-chaos-monkey, and KubeInvaders.
- Kubernetes and Helm are central runtime/distribution dependencies for the project.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/linki/chaoskube#readme>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/chaoskube>


## Security Notes

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

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## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.kube/config

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.kube/config

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/chaoskube.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/chaoskube.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
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- cross-ecosystem install command graph