Mayhem
Chaos engineering for Docker & Podman — break it on purpose, prove it recovers.
Mayhem is an open-source chaos engineering tool that lets you discover your running container infrastructure, inject real faults — kill processes, consume resources, corrupt configs — and prove your system recovers. Every run produces structured evidence you can review, share, and audit.
Key Features
- Auto-discover your Docker / Podman containers and services
- Inject faults — process kill, resource exhaustion, network disruption, config corruption
- Prove recovery — validates your system returns to healthy state after each fault
- Evidence reports — structured output you can share, log, or feed into CI/CD
- Kubernetes support on the roadmap
Quick Install
pip install mayhem-cli
Why Chaos Engineering?
Your containers will fail in production — network partitions, OOM kills, dependency outages. Chaos engineering answers: does your system actually recover when that happens? Mayhem makes answering that question systematic, repeatable, and auditable.
Who Is This For?
Platform engineers, SREs, DevOps teams, and backend developers who ship containerised services and want to validate resilience before production incidents happen.