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# Fault container permissions

This topic lists the various categories of Kubernetes faults and the container permissions required to execute them.

#### Supported Kubernetes faults and container permissions <a href="#supported-kubernetes-faults-and-container-permissions" id="supported-kubernetes-faults-and-container-permissions"></a>

The following table shows the supported Kubernetes faults and the required fault container permissions to execute them.

| Chaos category  | Faults                          | Requires root user on fault container | Requires privileged fault containers |
| --------------- | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ |
| State           | Pod Delete                      | ❌                                     | ❌                                    |
| State           | Container Kill                  | ✅                                     | ❌                                    |
| State           | Node Drain                      | ❌                                     | ❌                                    |
| State           | Node Taint                      | ❌                                     | ❌                                    |
| State           | Node Restart                    | ✅                                     | ❌                                    |
| Resource        | Pod CPU Hog                     | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| Resource        | Pod Memory Hog                  | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| Resource        | Pod IO Stress                   | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| Resource        | Pod Disk Fill                   | ✅                                     | ❌                                    |
| Resource        | Pod CPU Exec                    | ❌                                     | ❌                                    |
| Resource        | Pod Memory Exec                 | ❌                                     | ❌                                    |
| Resource        | Node CPU Hog                    | ❌                                     | ❌                                    |
| Resource        | Node Memory Hog                 | ❌                                     | ❌                                    |
| Resource        | Node IO Stress                  | ❌                                     | ❌                                    |
| Network         | Pod Network Latency             | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| Network         | Pod Network Loss                | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| Network         | Pod Network Corruption          | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| Network         | Pod Network Duplication         | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| Network         | Pod Network Partition           | ❌                                     | ❌                                    |
| Network         | Node Network Latency            | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| Network         | Node Network Loss               | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| HTTP/API        | Pod HTTP/API Latency            | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| HTTP/API        | Pod HTTP/API Status Code Modify | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| HTTP/API        | Pod HTTP/API Header Modify      | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| HTTP/API        | Pod HTTP/API Body Modify        | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| HTTP/API        | Pod HTTP Reset Peer Connection  | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| DNS             | Pod DNS Errors                  | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| DNS             | Pod DNS Spoofing                | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| I/O             | Pod IO Latency                  | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| I/O             | Pod IO Errors                   | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| Scale           | Pod Scale                       | ❌                                     | ❌                                    |
| Scale           | Kubelet Density/Stress          | ❌                                     | ❌                                    |
| Load            | Service Load                    | ❌                                     | ❌                                    |
| Time            | Pod Time Chaos                  | ✅                                     | ✅                                    |
| Process/Service | Kubelet Service Kill            | ✅                                     | ❌                                    |
| Process/Service | Docker/Containerd Service Kill  | ✅                                     | ❌                                    |