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Windows Network Loss

Windows network loss causes network packet loss on Windows VM for the target hosts or IP addresses using Clumsy. It checks the performance of the services running on the Windows VMs after the disrupted network loss conditions.

Windows Network Loss

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When Clumsy is downloaded, the path is exported which is used while executing the experiment.

Use cases​

Windows network loss:

  • Simulates issues within the host network (or microservice) communication across services in different hosts.
  • Determines the impact of degradation while accessing a microservice.
  • Limits the impact (blast radius) to the traffic that you wish to test by specifying the IP addresses, if the VM stalls or gets corrupted while waiting endlessly for a packet.
  • Simulates degraded network with varied percentages of dropped packets between microservices.
  • Simulates loss of access to specific third party (or dependent) services (or components).
  • Simulates blackhole against traffic to a given availability zone, that is, failure simulation of availability zones.
  • Simulates network partitions (split-brain) between peer replicas for a stateful application.

Prerequisites​

  • Ensure that the prerequisites are fulfilled before executing the experiment.
  • Verify that Clumsy is installed on the Windows VM.

Mandatory tunables​

Tunable Description Notes
NETWORK_PACKET_LOSS_PERCENTAGE The percentage of data packets lost during transmission. For example, 100. For more information, go to network packet loss.
DESTINATION_HOSTS DNS or FQDN names of services whose access is affected. You can specify multiple inputs as comma-separated values. For example, "abc.com,github.com". It is mutually exclusive with DESTINATION_IPS variable. For more information, go to destination hosts.
DESTINATION_IPS IP addresses of the target destination services. You can specify multiple inputs as comma-separated values. It is mutually exclusive with DESTINATION_HOSTS variable. For example, '0.8.0.8,192.168.5.6'.

Optional tunables​

Tunable Description Notes
DURATION Duration that you specify, through which chaos is injected into the target resource (in seconds). Default: 60s. For more information, go to duration of the chaos.
RAMP_TIME Period to wait before and after injecting chaos (in seconds). For example, 30s. For more information, go to ramp time.

Network packet loss​

The NETWORK_PACKET_LOSS_PERCENTAGE environment variable specifies the percentage of data packets lost during transmission.

Use the following example to specify network packet loss:

apiVersion: litmuschaos.io/v1alpha1
kind: MachineChaosExperiment
metadata:
  name: windows-network-loss
spec:
  engineState: "active"
  chaosServiceAccount: litmus-admin
  experiments:
    infraType: windows
    steps:
      - - name: windows-network-loss
    tasks:
    - definition:
        chaos:
          env:
            - name: NETWORK_PACKET_LOSS_PERCENTAGE
              value: "100"

Destination hosts​

The DESTINATION_HOSTS environment variable specifies the destination hosts to induce network loss on the target Windows VM. You can provide multiple values using comma-separated list. DESTINATION_HOSTS and DESTINATION_IPS environment variables are mutually exclusive.

Use the following example to specify destination hosts:

apiVersion: litmuschaos.io/v1alpha1
kind: MachineChaosExperiment
metadata:
  name: windows-network-loss
spec:
  engineState: "active"
  chaosServiceAccount: litmus-admin
  experiments:
    infraType: windows
    steps:
      - - name: windows-network-loss
    tasks:
    - definition:
        chaos:
          env:
            - name: DESTINATION_HOSTS
              value: "aws.amazon.com,github.com"

Destination IPS​

The DESTINATION_IPS environment variable specifies the IP addresses of target destination services. You can specify multiple inputs as comma-separated values. DESTINATION_IPS and DESTINATION_HOSTS environment variables are mutually exclusive.

Use the following example to specify destination IPS:

apiVersion: litmuschaos.io/v1alpha1
kind: MachineChaosExperiment
metadata:
  name: windows-network-loss
spec:
  engineState: "active"
  chaosServiceAccount: litmus-admin
  experiments:
    infraType: windows
    steps:
      - - name: windows-network-loss
    tasks:
    - definition:
        chaos:
          env:
            - name: DESTINATION_IPS
              value: '0.8.0.8,192.168.5.6'