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Version: 1.7.4

Tool ChaosBlade Install And Uninstall

This document describes how to install the Chaos Engineering tool : ChaosBlade

Install on a host​

Install and download the command line toolkit​

ChaosBlade is an end - side command line tool that supports cli commands. So in a host environment, you just need to add Chaosblade Releases The binary package can be downloaded to the corresponding folder and decompressed. As 1.17.0 amd64example：

# 1. download tar
wget https://github.com/chaosblade-io/chaosblade/releases/download/v1.7.2/chaosblade-1.7.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz

# 2. unzip and entry chaosblade directory
tar -xvf chaosblade-1.7.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz && cd chaosblade-1.7.2/

Verify installation​

To check whether the installation is successful, run the following command:

./blade v

Here is the expected output：

version: 1.7.2
env: #1 SMP Thu Mar 17 17:08:06 UTC 2022 x86_64
build-time: Tue Sep  6 07:06:55 UTC 2022

Uninstallation and Installation​

You only need to delete the downloaded and decompressed toolkit

rm -rf chaosblade-1.7.2*

Installation in Kubernetes Environment​

Environment Preparation​

For details, see ：[Prepare the Kubernetes installation environment](/en/docs/getting-started/installation-and-deployment/environment-prepare/#Prepare the kubernetes installation environment)

Install with Helm​

First, download the Box Chart package​

See all available for download chaosblade-release，Download to local，as 1.7.2 amd64example：

wget https://github.com/chaosblade-io/chaosblade/releases/download/v1.7.2/chaosblade-operator-1.7.2.tgz

Second，Performing the installation​

helm install chaosblade-operator chaosblade-operator-1.7.2.tgz --namespace chaosblade

Verify installation​

To see how the Box is running, run the following command:

kubectl get po -n chaosblade

Here is the expected output

NAME                                    READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
chaosblade-operator-688568959-lcwgb     1/1     Running   0          6s
chaosblade-tool-c9xjd                   1/1     Running   0          6s
chaosblade-tool-hvqcv                   1/1     Running   0          6s
chaosblade-tool-q8jjd                   1/1     Running   0          6s

If your actual output matches the expected output, ChaosBlade-Box has been installed successfully.

⚠️Attention If the actual output STATUS is not Running, you need to run the following command to view Pod details, and then troubleshoot the problem according to the error message

# as chaosblade-operator example
kubectl describe po chaosblade-operator-688568959-lcwgb -n chaosblade

Uninstall ChaosBlade​

To uninstall ChaosBlade, run the following command:

helm un chaosblade-operator -n chaosblade

After the uninstallation, you can check whether crd resources are also deleted:

kubectl get crds | grep chaos

If blade crd resource still exists, it can be deleted by the following command:

kubectl delete crd chaosblades.chaosblade.io

If the crd resource fails to be deleted for a long time, run the following command to delete it:

blades=$(kubectl get blade | grep -v NAME | awk '{print $1}' | tr '\n' ' ') && kubectl patch blade $blades --type merge -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":[]}}'