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Testing guides

Injecting faults with xk6-disruptor

xk6-disruptor API

PodDisruptor

Constructor

Open source

Constructor

The PodDisruptor() constructor creates a new instance of a PodDisruptor class.

Parameter	Type	Description
selector	object	criteria for selecting the target pods
options (optional)	object	options for controlling the behavior of the disruptor

Selector

The selector defines the criteria a pod must satisfy to be a valid target:

Attribute	Type	Description
namespace	string	namespace the selector will look for pods
select	object	attributes that a pod must match to be selected
exclude	object	attributes that exclude a pod (even if it matches the select attributes)

You can use the following attributes to select or exclude pods:

Pod attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
labels	object	map with the labels to be matched for selection or exclusion

Options

The options control the creation and behavior of the PodDisruptor:

Attribute	Type	Description
injectTimeout	string	maximum time to wait for the disruptor to be ready in the target pods (default 30s)

Example

const selector = {
  namespace: 'my-namespace',
  select: {
    labels: {
      app: 'my-app',
    },
  },
};
const podDisruptor = new PodDisruptor(selector);