What is Pumba?
It is a chaos testing tool for Docker containers, inspired by Netflix Chaos Monkey. The main benefit is that it works with containers instead of VMs. It can kill, stop, restart running Docker containers or pause processes within specified containers. We use it for resilience testing of our distributed applications.
Pumba is a tool in the Testing Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Pumba is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Pumba's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Pumba?
Developers
4 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Pumba.
Pumba Integrations
Pumba's Features
- Chaos injection with network emulation
- simulate network delay and packet loss
- delay of all outgoing packets
- delay with a range of specific containers via regex
- delay with range and 'normal' distribution for random containers for a set period
- simulate packet loss
- loss using Bernoulli model, loss-state (2,3,4) Markov models
- loss using Gilbert-Elliot model
Pumba Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Pumba?
Puma
Unlike other Ruby Webservers, Puma was built for speed and parallelism. Puma is a small library that provides a very fast and concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby web applications.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
