Overview
Chaos Mesh is an advanced, cloud-native chaos engineering platform designed to orchestrate fault injection experiments in Kubernetes environments. As a graduated CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) project, it provides a robust framework for SREs and DevOps teams to uncover system weaknesses by simulating a wide array of real-world failures including network latency, file system faults, and pod lifecycle disruptions. Its architecture is built upon Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), allowing users to define chaos experiments as declarative YAML files that integrate seamlessly into GitOps workflows. In the 2026 market, Chaos Mesh stands as a critical component of the 'Resilience-as-Code' movement, enabling automated hypothesis testing within CI/CD pipelines. It features a sophisticated Chaos Dashboard for visual experiment management and observability, alongside a powerful controller that manages the lifecycle of fault injections across distributed clusters. By providing granular control over blast headers and schedules, Chaos Mesh ensures that teams can build highly resilient distributed systems capable of surviving complex, cascading failures in production-grade environments.